Grade 2 News
Newsletter 1
UOI 2: Where We Are in Place and Time
Central Idea: Geography impacts the transportation of people, goods, and ideas
Key Concepts: Form, Change, Perspective
Related Concepts: Geography, mapping, transportation, land features, changes in transportation, and personal history
Lines of Inquiry
- Form: Physical geography around the world
- Change: How geography changes over time
- Perspective: Transportation and the flow of goods and ideas
What Are We Learning This Unit?
English Language Arts
Students will be working on independent reading goals in this unit and will continue to target individualized areas of growth. In addition, students will be:
- Working to complete a narrative writing in which they use transition words and phrases to tell an event in sequential order
- Exploring nouns, both plural, proper, common, and collective
- Describe connections between a series of historical events in a text
Math
Place Value, Counting and Comparison of Numbers to 1,000
- Topic A: Forming Base Ten Units of Ten, a Hundred, and a Thousand
- Topic B: Understanding Place Value Units of One, Ten, and a Hundred
- Topic C: Three-Digit Numbers in Unit, Standard, Expanded, and Word Forms
- Topic D: Modeling Base Ten Numbers Within 1,000 with Money
- Topic E: Modeling Numbers Within 1,000 with Place Value Disks
- Topic F: Comparing Two Three-Digit Numbers
- Topic G: Finding 1, 10, and 100 More or Less Than a Number
Science & Social Studies
Science: Pebbles Sand and Silt
- Investigation 1:
Part 1: Three Rocks (volcanic rocks)
Part 2: Washing volcanic Rocks
Part 3: Rock Sorting- Volcanic, river, and playground rocks
Part 4: Rock Collection
Part 5: Rock Sorting by Properties
- Investigation 2
Part 1:Screening Rocks
Part 2: River Rocks by Size (pebbles, gravel, and rocks)
Part 3: Sand and Silt
Part 4:. Exploring Clay and Landforms
Social Studies: Geography:
Students will be exploring:
- Mapping and how to use maps as a tool
- How travel has changed over time and the many different ways that we travel
- Impacts of geography on travel and our community
- How geography and place impact our choices and meet our needs
Arabic
Interpersonal Communication:
- I can say something about the members of my family and ask about someone’s family امي امها... ابي اسمه.... عندي ثلاثة اخوة، عندي اخت واحدة
- I can talk about some nationalities using Nisba انا من استراليا، انا استرالي. انا من سوريا، انا سوري
Presentational Speaking:
- I can count from 1- 20 واحد، اثنان، ثلاثة،اربعة...الخ
Presentational Writing:
- I can copy letters of the alphabet ،ج،ب،ت،ث،ح،خ
- I can copy characters that I am learning (animals, fruits and vegetables, and other items learned in the Letter Stories)
- I can write dates and the day of the week السبت، الاحد، الاثنين... الخ
Listening:
- I can answer questions about how old I am, and where I am from عمري، انا من
Qur'an
- Recognize and understand short and long vowels
- Recognize and understand shaddah
- Practice important etiquettes of reciting Qur’an
- Surat Al-Lail
- The general meaning of Surat Al-Lail
- Some students will be working on Surat Al-Inshiqaq
Islamic Studies
(Learn the form of the prayer (with verbal
:During Ruku
سبحان ربي العظيم
:During Sujud
سبحان ربي الأعلى
:Before Salam
(التَّحِيَّاتُ لِلَّهِ وَالصَّلَوَاتُ وَالطَّيِّبَاتُ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْنَا وَعَلَى عِبَادِ اللَّهِ الصَّالِحِينَ ، أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ)
(Learn the story of Adam, Hawwa, and their sons (Qabeel and Habeel
Learn about the childhood of the Prophet Muhammed from the splitting of the chest until returning to Abu-Talib
Art
- In this unit, students will be introduced to Arabic calligraphy as a mean of visual expression, drawing inspiration from the French Tunisian artist el Seed.
- Students will learn and practice new elements of art like movement, contrast, form and texture. They will experiment with different materials and techniques and see how they interact.
- Students will learn one-point perspective as well and create artwork using all these elements and principals.
Grade 2 Team
- Ms. Walcott - cwalcott@tarbiyahacademy.org (Homeroom)
- Ms. Ibrahim - hibrahim@tarbiyahacademy.org (Qur'an & Islamic Studies)
- Ms. Taame - otaame@tarbiyahacademy.org (Art)
- Ms. Maher - smaher@tarbiyahacademy.org (Arabic)
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