Week of April 29nd

2nd grade team
Apr 29, 2019
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Important Dates:

Tuesday, April 30th- Field Trip

** Please see reminder sent home with your student**

Thursday, May 2nd- Spirit Night @ Mellow Mushroom

What We're Learning-

Reading:

Week's Theme:

How do animals change and grow?

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

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

RI 2.7 Describe how specific images contribute to and clarify a text.

Essential Questions:

How can the text features and illustrations in a text help us to understand the main idea better?

Comprehension Skill:

Synthesizing

Comprehension Strategy:

Why a visual? {What information are the visuals in a book giving me?}

ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week we continue 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 compound sentences and how these make our writing exciting 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:

*represent halves, thirds, and fourths using rectangles and circles to create fraction models

*compare fractions created through partitioning same-sized rectangular or circular wholes in different ways

We also start to review for our test this week as well!

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

We will show what we know on our unit test Thursday!

Math 3.1

This week we will review what we have learned for our unit test! Concepts we have covered are:

● Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes.

● Solve elapsed time, including word problems, by using a number line diagram.

● Reason about the units of mass and liquid volume. ○ Understand that larger units can be subdivided into equivalent units (partition). ○ Understand 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). ● Graph data that is relevant to their lives. While exploring data concepts, students should Pose a question, Collect data, Analyze data, and Interpret data (PCAI).