Week of March 12

Important Dates:

March 12-STEM Day

March 13- VIPS Breakfast-8:00AM

March 15- All Pro Dads-7:00AM

March 15- PTO Board Meeting-10-11:30A AM-Room 131

March 15-PTO Board Luncheon 12-12:30-Room 131

March 15- PTO Membership Meeting 12:30-1:00-Room 131

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.

Math

Math 2.1

We will continue our unit on 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

We will work on our study guides this week in school. Test will be on Monday.

Math 3.1

We will take our test on fractions this week.

Science/SS

We are LOVING our new science unit on ASTRONOMY! This week we will continue to focus on our moon and the phases made. What causes these? Does the moon give off its own light? Do any other planets have moons? The questions are in full swing with this unit, so encourage the discussion at home and check out NASA for kids! Remember to fill out your moon calendar!

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