Week of April 8th

2nd grade team
Apr 8, 2019
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Important Dates:

Thursday, April 11th- Live to Give Night: Cafeteria 4:00

Friday, April 12th- School Store

What We're Learning-

Reading:

Week's Theme: We can learn about interesting topics by researching non-fiction text.

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RI 2.2 Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as focus on specific paragraphs within the text.

RI 2.5 Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

Essential Questions:

*How can we use text features to help us locate key facts or information in a text?

*What skills do good readers use to identify the main topic within a text?

Comprehension Skill: Determine Importance

Comprehension Strategy:

Determine important vs. interesting information when reading non-fiction texts.

ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week, we will be practicing past tense verbs using the much loved book, Michael Recycle.

Phonics: This week, we will be working on hard and soft /G/ words.

Math

Math 2.1

We will wrapping up our journey through measurement by beginning to review for our unit test this week! We will be applying and practicing all of our newly gained skills and strategies by completing an in class study guide and playing fun, interactive review games.

We have learned:

* Customary units for measuring length: inch, foot, yard

* Recognize the need for standard units of measure

*Use rulers and other measurement tools

*Recognize that the smaller the unit is, the more iterations needed to cover a given length.

*Know the following metric units for measuring length: centimeter and meter

*Compare the relationship of one unit of measurement to another, within the same system

*Check by measuring to determine if estimates are accurate for length

*Determine the appropriate tool for measuring length

*Tell time to the nearest five minutes

*Understand the relationship of hours and days *Understand the importance and usefulness of reasonable estimations

*Connect the whole-number units on rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks and measuring tapes to number lines showing whole-number units starting at 0

*Use these measuring tools to model different representations for whole-number sums and differences less than or equal to 100 using the numbers 0 to 100.

*Be able to represent the length of several objects by making a line plot

Math 2.2

This week, students will review their understanding of the meanings of multiplication and division of whole numbers through activities and problems involving equal-sized groups, arrays, and area models; multiplication is finding an unknown product, and division is finding an unknown factor in these situations. For equal-sized group situations, division can require finding the unknown number of groups or the unknown group size.

Math 3.1

This week, students will work on deepening their understanding of compacity. They will be learning how to reason about the units of mass and liquid volume, that larger units can be subdivided into equivalent units (partition), that the same unit can be repeated to determine the measure (iteration), understand the relationship between the size of a unit and the number of units needed (compensatory principle).