Second Grade Newsletter
Tuesday, November 2:
💻📝 Digital Learning Day
Your child's teacher will have the Digital Learning Day activities posted on their Google Classroom. Please make sure your child completes their school work on paper and brings it to their teacher on Wednesday. Thank you!
Thursday, November 5:
🎨🖌️ Art Show at the Garden Plaza in Lawrenceville
McKendree Elementary School and Garden Plaza are delighted to invite students, families, and community members to a special art show celebrating creativity across generations! Come explore a showcase of original artwork created by our talented McKendree Elementary students hosted at the Garden Plaza at Lawrenceville.
- Date: November 5, 2026
- Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
- Location: Garden Plaza at Lawrenceville, 230 Collins Industrial Way Lawrenceville, GA 30043
Monday, November 16-Wednesday, November 18:
🦃🥧 Thanksgiving Luncheon
MORE INFORMATION of grade levels & times COMING SOON!
Monday, November 23-Friday, November 27:
🍂🏠😴☕ Thanksgiving Break
More dates coming soon!
Reading 📚
Month of November:
- I can use discussion norms to participate in classroom discussions about working with fossils.
- I can use text features to learn more about fossils.
- I can discuss evidence from observations of photographs with my group to sort fossils and non-fossils.
- I can define a word from a text using different strategies.
- I can make inferences about impressions after discussing observations with my group.
- I can use evidence from the text Fossils to answer questions about fossilization.
- I can use discussion norms to participate in a Science Talk about fossils.
- I can make inferences about animals from long ago by closely examining pictures of fossils
- I can use evidence to answer questions about the text "Digging Up the Past."
- I can answer questions about paleontologists using key details in the text “The Maiasaura Dig: The Story of Dr. Holly Woodward Ballard.”
- I can describe characters’ actions in the text “The Maiasaura Dig: The Story of Dr. Holly Woodward Ballard”.
- I can show characters’ actions and feelings by role-playing excerpts from the text “The Maiasaura Dig: The Story of Dr. Holly Woodward Ballard.”
Writing ✏️
Month of November:
- I can describe the steps of fossilization using pictures and words.
- I can order and describe the steps of fossilization.
- I can write a museum display label about a fossil using information I have learned from the text.
- I can write a sentence to describe a paleontologist’s action.
- I can write sentences to describe a paleontologist’s responses to a major event.
- I can use temporal words to show the order of events that a paleontologist might experience.
- I can draft the beginning of my narrative based on Holly’s experience in “The Maiasaura Dig: The Story of Dr. Holly Woodward Ballard”
- I can edit my narrative to include irregular past-tense verbs correctly.
- I can draft the middle of my narrative based on Holly’s experiences in “The Maiasaura Dig: The Story of Dr. Holly Woodward Ballard.”
- I can revise my narrative to include temporal words.
- I can edit my narrative to include irregular past-tense verbs correctly.
- I can draft the end of my narrative based on Holly’s experiences from “The Maiasaura Dig: The Story of Dr. Holly Woodward Ballard”.
- I can edit my narrative using a Revising and Editing Checklist.
Math ➕➖
Month of November:
- I can measure two objects and determine how much longer one object is than another object.
- I can write an equation to determine how much longer one object is than another.
- I can ask relevant investigative questions, collect data and organize it in a graphical display, and interpret its information to solve problems.
- I can solve word problems involving lengths and use equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
- I can represent and solve addition and subtraction measurement problems using a number line and equations with a symbol for the unknown number.
- I can represent and solve two-step measurement problems using equations with a symbol for the unknown number.
- I can solve measurement problems using a number line and equations with a symbol for the unknown number.
- I can solve addition and subtraction word problems involving length.
The BOLDED learning targets are skills that will be revisited MANY days throughout the month.
Science 🧪
Month of November:
- I can use information from several sources to construct an argument from evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
- I can collaboratively design a solution to slow and prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.
- I can develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area.
Science learning targets: There is ONE learning target for each week (5 days).
Social Studies 🌎
- I can describe how the Muscogee (Creek) and the Cherokee used their environment to live.
- I can compare and contrast similarities and differences of the Georgia Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee of the past to our lives today.
- I can describe the reasons Sequoyah wanted to create a written language for the Cherokee.
- I can explain why a written language was needed for the Cherokee.
- I can describe how Sequoyah created a written language for the Cherokee.
- I can describe the positive contributions of Sequoyah.
- I can describe the Georgia Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee cultures and the contributions of Sequoyah.
Reading (Skills Block): Your child will be completing the Monday-Thursday activities and return it to their homeroom teacher on Friday morning. 👀📖 They will receive a NEW reading sheet each week with the current skills we are teaching!
Math: Your child will complete the given problems on the paper throughout the week and return it to class on Friday morning. They will receive a NEW math sheet each week with the current skills we are teaching! ➕➖
