Week of March 4

2nd grade team
Mar 4, 2019
3 min read

Important Dates:

Read Across America Week

Monday, March 4-Cat in the Hat Day-wear a crazy hat to school

Tuesday, March 5- Oh, the Places You'll Go-wear career outfit

Wednesday. March 6- "If I ran the Zoo" --Bring a stuffed animal to school day

Thursday, March 7-Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book-Wear pajamas to school

Friday, March 8-Favorite Book Character Day

Wednesday, March 6-Picture Day

Thursday, March 7-Parent Coffee Listening Session 9am – 10am

Friday, March 8-Family Movie Night 5:30-8:00pm

Things to Do:

Track the phases of the moon on your very own moon calendar! Look outside each night at the moon or early in the morning and illustrate what you see. Over the course of the month, do you see any changes?
Check the weather daily to see if jackets are needed. It's been quite chilly at a few of our outdoor recesses lately!

What We're Learning:

Reading

This week we are so excited to study one of 2nd grades class favorites with Mo Willems! Elephant and Piggy books are constantly found throughout our rooms, so we're excited to learn where it all began with our main texts staring Trixie and Knuffle Bunny!

Main text: Knuffle Bunny, Knuffle Bunny Too, Knuffle Bunny Free

Week's Theme:

Characters in multiple books can grow and change.

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RL 2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

RL 2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Essential Question:

How do characters in stories respond to events?

How do illustrations and words in a text help us to understand it better? Comprehension Skill: Synthesizing, interpreting

English Language Arts

Mentor Sentence: This week, using our mentor sentence book Sweet Tooth, we will look at word choice as we explore synonyms to allow us to enhance our writing using vibrant verbs and amazing adjectives. Students today noticed words such as belly-aching and moaned to replace the common words said.

We will also continue our focus on types of nouns with a deeper look at common vs proper nouns. This is a skill we must have mastered as we work to edit and revise our writing using correct proper nouns.

Phonics: Our phonics pattern for the week has us looking at the tricky ow or ou sounds. Look for these in words such as around, bounce, count, flour, found, ground, house, loud, mouse, mouth, ounce, out, scout, shout, sound, sour.

Math

Math 2.1

We will conclude our addition and subtraction unit this week, but will continue to look for ways to apply it such as through our studies of measurement! This is always such a fun hands on unit and we look forward to exploring centimeters, inches, feet, and meters. We will look at using these in our daily lives to ensure we are measuring accurately and will focus on rounding to the nearest inch, or centimeter. Which do you think we'd need more of? Inches or centimeters when measuring the same object?

Math 2.2

This week we are working on expanding our multi-digit addition and subtraction strategies. We will review our properties of addition to help with multi-step word problems. We will review the CUBES strategy to help us figure out what information is important in these word problems and what information is just trying to trick us.

Math 3.1

This week we will begin our review of fractions by looking at equivalent fractions, methods for finding these, and comparing fractions. Today I was asked, "Fractions are so easy. Do they ever get harder? What are some tricky fraction problems" So, we will take a look at some of those this week for an extra challenge such as improper fractions, mixed fractions, adding fractions with unlike denominators, and so on!