2nd Grade

May 1: School Principals’ Day (dress like Mrs. Lara and/or wear purple!)
May 4-8: Teacher Appreciation Week

May 5: Math AIA

May 8: Science CBA #4 (Organisms and Environment)

May 11-15: BOOK FAIR and last week for parent lunch days

May 12: Summit Exam

May 14: Progress Report Day

May14: Musical Performance- STEAMHEAT from 5:30-6:30

May 22: Math Unit 11 CBA- Length

May 25: Student/Staff Holiday (No School)

May 29: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL - 2 p.m. early dismissal

June 3: Summer School begins

It’s time to grow! 😊 2nd graders are kicking off Module 8, with an inquiry project. We will use a variety of research sources, to create a brochure, after researching natural disasters.

Furthermore, we will be reviewing text features, determining importance while evaluating the most important details of a story, and identifying cause & effect. We will revisit internal and external character traits, and retell the events in a story, We will also revisit story structure, plot elements, beginning, middle and end. Metacognition will take us through making connections to our personal experiences, other texts, and to the world.

Children will engage in the full writing process to produce a procedural text during this three-week module. The Writing Workshop Teacher’s Guide provides explicit instruction and ample opportunity for children to write daily.

In this unit, your child will measure length. Skills your child will practice include:

• estimating and measuring length, width, and height in meters

• measuring length, width, and height in centimeters

• estimating and measuring length in feet

• measuring length in inches

• drawing lines of given length

• comparing and ordering metric and customary lengths

• using bar models to solve up to two-step problems involving lengths

STEM activities for 05/26-05/29

• 05/04-05/08

Students are learning about different life cycles. Over the course of this chapter, students will have the opportunity to investigate and describe some of the unique life cycles of animals where young animals do not resemble their parents, including butterflies and frogs.

Toy Robot Process Engineer!

• Students will be working on designing and creating a toy robot during the last weeks of school. We need your help! We are asking that student's bring cereal boxes and bottle caps from home, please.

Technology Then and Now

• Students will learn to compare life in the past to life today, and understand that some things change while others stay the same
• Students will learn to describe how science and technology change communication, transportation, recreation, and the ways in which people meet basic needs.

American Heroes

• Students will learn to identify the contributions of historical figures who influenced our nation's history.
• Students will learn to identify the historical figures who exhibited individualism, inventiveness, and good citizenship.

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