Second Grade Scoop
Miss Roberts * Stoy School * April 8, 2019
New Read Aloud Alert!!
Readering Workshop
We are going to wrap up our Heroes and Helpers unit by exploring the question, “How can stories be alike and different?” First, we will read the fantasy story: Dex: The Heart of a Hero, about a dog who becomes a Superhero! We will also learn about some real heroes in the informational text: Heroes Then and Now.
Target Vocabulary: depended, overlooked, sprang, studied, gazing, hero, exercise, sore
Phonics Skills: Words with r-controlled vowels or (for), ore (bore)
Vocabulary Strategy: Prefix over- (means “above” or “beyond”)
Comprehension Skill: Compare and contrast – tell how two things are alike or not
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/clarify – find ways to figure out what doesn’t make senseWriting Workhshop
The students will turn their handwriting focus to numbers. As a class, the students will be practicing accurate number formation and spatial orientation with larger numbers. We will begin this process with single digit numbers and move toward two digit numbers. The goal is to build the students fluency while writing numbers and ensuring the numbers are legible; when checking work, 6's can look like 0's, 4's can look like 9's.
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.
To help each child get started, please have have your child bring a copy of photo of themselves. These pictures will be used in their book.
Math
Unit 12 Fractions
Lesson 1: Understanding Fractions (2 Day Lesson
- Identify whether a shape is divided into equal fractional parts
- Read, write, and identify unit fractions for halves, thirds, and fourths
- Show fractions and whole using model drawings
Vocabulary * equal * unequal * whole * fraction * one-half * one-third * one-fourth * unit fraction
- Compare two or more unit fractions using models of the same size
- Order two or more unit fractions with or without the use of models of the same size
- Vocabulary * same * greater than * less than
Social Studies
To complete Unit 4, we will discuss how the United States is only one country on a big continent in an even bigger world. It is important to know about other countries and where they are located. Since countries share their ideas and cultures, it is also important to know which countries are our next-door neighbors and which are further away. We will look at and read a World Map to familiarize ourselves with the many different countries who share our Earth. We will also review everything we have learned through the unit to prepare for the test on Friday.
Social Expecations
We will read another great book about stuck thinking, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. Favorites like these allow students to have a appreciate that fact that anyone and everyone can get "Stuck." It's important to know they have the power to be flexible and look at a situation differently.
Later in the week, the students will be introduced to a new social thinking concept; Size of a Problem. Whenever we are around other people, we're involved in problem solving as a means to figure out how to act, what to say, and how to keep ourselves and others feeling comfortable together.
Coming Soon
- Have your child bring in a photo of themselves by Tuesday. Thank you.
- April 9th - Unit 11 Math test
- April 12th - Pretzel orders due
- April 16h - PTA Meeting
- April 17th - Color Spirit Day & Pretzel Sale
- April 18th - Social Studies Unit 4 Test
- April 18th - Unit 12 Math Test
- April 18th - Jump Rope for Heart
- April 19th - 26th - Spring Break
- April 29th - School re-opens