Week of January 21st

Important Dates:

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

Tuesday January 22nd- Field trip to teaching museum

Graded papers go home

Thursday January 24th- Spirit Day/ Mellow Mushroom night

What We're Learning:

Reading

Week's Theme: Obstacles in life can lead to changing the world.

Literacy Skill Standard:

RI2.6 Identify the main purpose of reading a text, including what the author wants to answer.

RI 2.9 Complare and contrast the most important poingts presented by two texts on the same topic.

Essential Question:

How can obstacles in life lead to changing the world?

What can I learn about two texts on similar topics?

Comprehension Skill:

Determine importance, summarize

Comprehension Strategy:

Keying in to what's important in biographies

ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week, we will be reviewing past tense verbs with a focus on past tense irregular verbs. We will be using our mentor text for the week 100th Day Worries

Phonics: This week will will be focusing on ar words.

Math 2.1

We are continuing our addition and subtraction practice with application based lessons this week! We will be looking into using our skills to help investigate problems with money. We will think of this in connection with class run businesses and visits to class run stores. We will look at subtracting across zeros, which can be quite tricky, but something we know these second graders are ready to conquer!

Math 2.2

We will continue to work on using equal groups, repeated addition, and arrays to understand the foundations of multiplication. How many buttons do we see in each bag? can we write a repeated addition sentence?

Math 3.1

We are heading into geometry with a look at polygons and quadrilaterals! We are having a fun time discussing what qualities each posses and realize that some of our definitions overlap! For example.... a square is technically a rectangle! But a rectangle isn't always a square? See if you can explain it!

Science/SS

This week we are continuing to deepen our understanding of tricky subjects by looking at Jackie Robinson's impact on the Civil Rights movement, Jimmy Carter's impact on the Human Rights Movement, and we will even look into the Women's Rights Movement as we explore equality for all.