Week of April 22nd

Important Dates:

Monday, April 22nd- Tuesday, April 23rd- GA Milestones Grades 5th **No visitors will be allowed in the building during testing times**

Friday, April 26th- All Pro Dads @ 7 a.m. in cafeteria &

Spring Carnival @ 4:30 p.m.

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

What We're Learning-

Reading:

Week's Theme:

Insects are fascinating animals

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.

Essential Questions:

What is important information about the text that I am reading?

Comprehension Skill:

Quick jots to help us comprehend

Comprehension Strategy:

Stop and Jot: Writing about non-fiction helps us hold onto information and ideas as we read.

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 continue 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 starting our spiral review of phonics skills!

https://www.kizphonics.com/phonics-program/2nd-grade-level-1/

Math

Math 2.1

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

• Equal shares of identical wholes may not have the same shape. For example, fourths can be represented in multiple ways (i.e. with diagonal, horizontal, vertical cuts) and although they look different they represent the same amount/size piece.

• Fractional parts are equal shares of a whole number, whole object, or a whole set.

Math 2.2

This week students will be reviewing all the concepts they have learned in unit 2. Concepts and skills learned include-

• understand the concepts of multiplication and division

• learn the basic facts of multiplication and their related division facts

• apply properties of operations (commutative, associative, and distributive) as strategies to multiply and divide

• understand division as an unknown-factor problem.

• fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the patterns and relationships between multiplication and division

• understand multiplication and division as inverse operations

• solve problems and explain their processes of solving division problems that can also be represented as unknown factor multiplication problems.

• represent and interpret data

Math 3.1

This week we will continue diving deeper into our measurement unit with an up close look at measuring weight and capacity. We will reason about the units of mass and liquid volume by understanding that larger units can be subdivided into equivalent units (partition). We will also understand that the same unit can be repeated to determine the measure (iteration) and the relationship between the size of a unit and the number of units needed (compensatory principle)

Science:

This week we will be studying the life cycle of an insect. We will study this up close by observing our very own meal worm! We are so excited to start this unit and look forward to telling you all about it :)