Second Grade Scoop
Miss Roberts * Stoy School * February 18th and 24th
Reading Workshop
Our shortened 4-day week will provide us time to review the skills and concepts that have been introduced during Lessons 11, 12, and 13. The class will participate in lessons to help them deepen their understandings.
During Lesson 14, we will discuss “How do you know when story ideas are important?” We will read the biography of Helen Keller, who learned how to communicate with help from her devoted teacher. We will also learn about other ways to communicate in the informational text, Talking Tools.
Target Vocabulary: curious, imitated, knowledge, motion, silence, illness, darkness, behavior
Phonics Skills: words with long o (o, oa, ow) {open, coat, bow}
Vocabulary Strategy: suffix –ly (means “in a certain way”)
Comprehension Skill: Main ideas and details - tell important ideas and details about a topic
Writing Workshop
During our Handwriting lessons the students will continue to practice accurate letter formation, size, and spacing. Various writing activities such as homophones, quotations, compound words, syllables, and paragraphs will allow the students to apply punctuation and specific word choice to their writing practice.
We are beginning our next unit on information or nonfiction writing. The students will be surrounded with nonfiction books bursting with text and visual features. There will be books and magazines filled with photographs, captions, maps, diagrams and illustrations. They will be asked pay attention to them to develop a greater appreciation for their purposes. To help immerse themselves in text and visual features, each child will create a book about themselves consisting mostly of text and visual features. These books will be used later, as they write another story about topic they are an "expert" on.
Math
10+0=10, 9+1=10, 8+2=10, 7+3=10, 6+4=10, 5+5=10. Below are some strategies the students will be introduced to in upcoming weeks.
Add tens then subtract the extra ones strategy
- The first step was for the students to focus on the single digit and understand that +8 is the same as 10-2
- The second step was for the students to add 10 to double digit numbers then subtract 2
- For example: 86 + 7 = _____________
- The bond for 7 is 7 + 3= 10 so +7 is the same as +10 - 3
- Add 86+10= 96 and 96-3 = 93
*This strategy is used with adding a 3-digit number to a single digit number
Add the ones strategy
- The first step is for the students to separate the ones from the hundreds and tens
- 354 + 5 = __________
- For example 354 becomes 350 and 4
- Then add the ones, 5 + 4 = 9
- and 350 + 9 + 359
Add tens to a 3-digit number
- Identify the number in the tens in each number and group them out
- 238 + 50 = ____________
- 208 + 30
- Then add the two double digit numbers; 50 + 30 = 80
- And add 208 + 80 = 288
Unit 10 - Mental Math and Estimation
Lesson 1: Meaning of Sum
- Relate "sum"to the addition operation
- Vocabulary * sum*
- Add numbers with up to 3 digits mentally with and without regrouping
- Vocabulary * add mentally *
- Relate "difference" to the subtraction operation
- Vocabulary * difference *
- Subtract up to 3-digit numbers mentally with and without regrouping
- Vocabulary * subtract mentally
Social Studies
The Second Graders will learn the characteristics of various land forms and bodies of water found within the United States. Then they will illustrate, label, and define them to create class anchor charts. The students will also learn the difference between maps and globes. The second graders will have an opportunity to look, read and manipulate both. When they are familiar with each, they will focus on the continents and oceans. Each student will complete a Continent Book with the seven continents and various bodies of water. After some practice, they will be asked to complete a map to locate and label the seven continents and three major oceans; Atlantic, Pacific and Indian and identify the location of the equator and North and South Poles.
The students will read about and learn how people depend on the physical environment and its natural resources to meet their basic needs. As a class, we will create a list of natural resources and brainstorm examples of how they can be used.
Social Expectations
The ability to make a smart guess is at the heart of critical thinking skills used for social and academic problem solving. This week, the students will delve deeper into how to make a smart guess. Through the story, "Mystery Adventure", the students will learn how to observe social cues such as body language and tone of voice and combine it with what they know in order to generate a reasonable guess. The Smart Guess Equation will be introduced and utilized so the students understand they have to look, listen and think to make a smart guess. We will then begin to learn about hidden rules..
Coming Soon!
- February 17th - No School; Presidents' Day
- February 18th - Pretzel orders due
- February 18th - PTA Meeting 7pm
- February 20th - Hat Day and Pretzel Sale
- February 20th - Kindergarten Roundup 9:00-10:30 at Jennings
- March 2nd Read Across America Day