Week of April 15th

2nd grade team
Apr 15, 2019
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Important Dates:

Monday, April 15th- Friday, April 19th- GA Milestones Grades 3rd-5th **No visitors will be allowed in the building during testing times**

**Please turn in your field trip permission slips and lunch choices**

What We're Learning-

Reading:

Week's Theme: We can learn more about an interesting topic by reading more than one resource.

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 2.9 Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

Essential Questions:

How can we use information from more than one resource to learn more about a topic?

Comprehension Skill:

Determine importance

Comprehension Strategy:

Clue into topic sentences

ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week we will be starting our second grade spiral review. During these next several weeks, we will revisit skills we have learned and dig deeper; exploring why it is important to know and use these skills. This week we will focus on adjectives and how these words make our writing exciting and descriptive to the reader.

Writing: This week we will begin learning about different types of poems and creating our very own! Stay tuned for a fun event we will have to celebrate our achievements in poetry.

Phonics: This week we will be working on trigraphs! We will look at /tch/ and /dge/ words.

Math

Math 2.1

We will begin our journey through unit 5 by exploring and deepening our understanding of plane and solid figures. This week, students will cultivate spatial awareness by:

• further developing understandings of basic geometric figures

• identifying plane figures and solid figures based on geometric properties

• describing plane figures and solid figures according to geometric properties

Math 2.2

This week students will be learning to understand division with whole numbers to 100. We will understand division as equal groups, and repeated subtraction. Using story problems, we will work through multiplication and division problems and their relation to one another.

Math 3.1

This week we will wrap our measurement unit up with a closer look at measuring weight and capacity. We will look at when to measure using liters and milliliters vs. when to use grams or kilograms. We will practice our skills using hands on applicarion and answer some multistep application problems to show what we know.