SECOND

THOUGHTS

MDQ Academy
Brentwood, New York
March 16-20

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Sister Amnas Classroom Newsletter

READING/LANGUAGE ARTS

SOCIAL STUDIES

Read a non fiction story

titled, Soil, which fit in
nicely with our Science
chapter. Practiced
vocabulary words.

Identified antonyms and

came up with pairs of
opposite words for a
project.

Started unit 4 on culture.

Learned that culture includes things
such as food, clothing, sports,
entertainment etc. for a specific group
of people.
Discussed individual aspects of the
cultures in this class.

MATH

Wrote about things they

want to do before they are
100 years old rough
draft/final copy
Sorted facts and opinions
about various topics such as
spiders.

Practiced time to the hour and half hour

Learned how to tell time to five minutes

Identified what quarter after and half past

mean

Sorted activities done through out the day

into a.m. and p.m. times.

Did a butterfly craft where each wing

represented a different time and had to
write the times in various ways.

SCIENCE

Practiced adjectives that

compare with endings er
and est. Also completed an
adjective project- describing
cookies using the
senses/adjectives and then
doing a writing/craft
project.
Sequenced how to blow a
bubble using real bubble
gum
and
wrot
e

Took a test on chapter 6

Started learning about the Scientific

Method and started our class
experiment for the Science Fair.

If you are reading this and see it, cut it

out and bring it back on Monday for a
small treat.

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2nd GRADE NEWSLETTER Page 2

Science Fair
Our class Science Fair experiments question is,
Which liquid makes a marshmallow Peep dissolve
the most? We are using water, vinegar, coke, and
apple juice. We put a marshmallow Peep inside
each cup with the different liquids and are
recording our observations this week and seeing
is happening to each Peep in each cup. They
learned the steps of observing, asking a question,
making a hypothesis, gathering our materials and
writing our procedure, and conducting the
experiment so far.

Reminders to Students/Parents

1) Sign and return Science tests.

2) Brother Mustafa- the gym teacher

has stated many times to the
kids, to wear gym shoes on
Monday. He told them this week
that if they dont follow the rule for
the following weeks, they will miss
all of gym time.

Next Weeks Highlights

Language Arts: adjectives that name
numbers, and adjectives a, and an.
Math: test chapter 7 on Wednesday
Science: Starting chapter 7 on weather
Social Studies-Continuing learning
about culture and traditions
Upcoming Events/Requests/Comments
1) Parent Teacher Conferences April 2.
Timing slots will go out next week.
2) Fluency homework questions must be
answered in complete sentences.
3) Spring break April 3-12