Week of January 7th 2019

Important Dates:

Friday, January 11th- All Pro Dads

Tuesday, January 15th - Report cards

Wednesday, January 16th Globetrotter passports

Monday, January 21st- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Tuesday, January 22nd- Field trip to teaching museum

Graded papers go home

Things to do:

Please consider following your favorite 2nd grade teachers along with many other school staff on Twitter!

Mrs. Barnes- @BarnesMBES2

Mrs. Davis- @DavisMBES2

Mrs. Hall- @KimHall36

Mrs. Rios- @Riosmbes2

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What We're Learning:

Reading

Week's Theme: How do leaders show courage?

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RI 2.2 Identify the main topic of a multip-paragraph text.

Essential Question:

*What makes a strong leader?

*How can the main topic of a text help us to understand it better?

Comprehension Skill: Questioning, Determining importance

Comprehension Strategy: Ask questions to form ideas.

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ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week, we will focus on collective nouns using the amazing work of Jan Brett titled, The Three Snow Bears. Students will be coming home using a variety of collective nouns. Their are thousands of collective nouns and we will prioritize the frequently used nouns. We encourage you to challenge yourself and explain 3 of your favorite collective nouns to your students! All great expose to new and interesting vocabulary.

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Phonics: This week, we will be working on words that make the long I sound using "i", "ie" , "igh" and "y". We will work to hear this letter sounds in words such as fries, sigh, tie, etc.

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Math

Math 2.1

This week we will be a fun way to kick of the New Year! we will take the week taking on a task on "Unlocking the New Year" Students will face ten math challenges in which they must answer all correct before heading to their next challenge. This activity will be a great opportunity to review past instruction from the first semester. Stay tuned to twitter and Seesaw for what will be some great shots of detours your student may come across on their journey. We will be looking ahead to our next unit which will be three digit addition and subtraction.

Math 2.2

This week we will be a fun way to kick of the New Year! we will take the week taking on a task on "Unlocking the New Year" Students will face ten math challenges in which they must answer all correct before heading to their next challenge. This activity will be a great opportunity to review past instruction from the first semester with our eyes ahead of the third grade material. Stay tuned to twitter and Seesaw for what will be some great shots of detours your student may come across on their journey.

Math 3.1

This week we will be a fun way to kick of the New Year! we will take the week taking on a task on "Unlocking the New Year" Students will face ten math challenges in which they must answer all correct before heading to their next challenge. This activity will be a great opportunity to review past instruction from the first semester of third grade material. Stay tuned to twitter and Seesaw for what will be some great shots of detours your student may come across on their journey.

Social Studies :

This week we will begin to journey into our study of biographies. We will explore biographical books and how we as historians take the information gained to understand ones history.