2nd Grade Newsletter
CLASS REMINDERS
🟦Check folders nightly and initial the “Week at a Peek” or Calendar.
🟦Check folders for important papers daily.
🧥Please make sure you send in jackets as the weather changes with Fall coming. We do go outside when possible.
🎧Send in headphones if you have not. Students use these during testing.
READING
Knowledge Unit: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales
Skills Unit 1: CKLA
The learner will:
- Ask and answer such questions as who, what, when, where, why and how to understand key details in a text.
- With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
- Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
- Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
- Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
- Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges (use this standard when reading fiction texts this week).
- With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
- Letter sound review with decoding and encoding (spelling). Spelling will be happening soon.
MATH
- Students represent and solve story problems within 20 through the context of picture and bar graphs that represent categorical data.
Students build toward fluency with addition and subtraction.
- Unit 1A: Add and Subtract within 20
- Approximate Dates: August 30-September 10
- Unit 1B: Ways to Represent Data
- Approximate Dates: September 13-22
- Unit 1C: Diagrams to Compare
- Approximate Dates: September 25th
SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE
This month students will be:
- Explaining that the common good strives for goals of freedom, equality, equity, and fairness within a community.
- Defining equality as the same freedoms that are held by all people.
- Defining equity as people having what they need to be successful regardless of their identities.
- Recognizing that people are sometimes not treated fairly for reasons beyond their control.
- Identifying that leaders in a democracy address the wants and needs of the people they serve.
- Exploring governing powers at home, school and the community.
- Contrasting challenges governing powers face based on where they are located, and the resources that are available to them.
- Exploring the tool of voting as a part of civic life that Americans use to participate in government and select people in power.
- Exploring tools of communication that Americans use to have their voices and ideas heard by those in government.
ELA
Early Asian Civilizations Unit 2 /SKILLS-Unit 2
- Locate Asia, India, and China on a map or globe
- Explain the importance of mountains in the development of early Asian civilizations
- Explain the importance of the Indus and Ganges Rivers for the development of civilization in ancient times
- Describe the key components of a civilization
- Describe the basic principles of Hinduism and Buddhism
- Identify Diwali as an important holiday in Hinduism
- Identify trickster tales and folktales as a type of fiction
- Demonstrate familiarity with the poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant”
- Explain the importance of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers for the development of civilizations in ancient times
- Describe contributions of ancient China (e.g., paper, silk, writing, the Great Wall)
- Read one and two syllable words
- Recognize trick words
- Learn the use of quotation marks
- Focus on writing narratives.
- Read contractions.
Science
The learner will:
- Use science notebooking to record their investigation process in order to describe and classify materials by their observable properties.
- Use evidence from investigations in order construct an argument that some changes are reversible and others are irreversible.
- Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. (Clarification: Observations could include color, texture, hardness, and flexibility. Patterns could include the similar properties that different materials share.)
- Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose