Week of May 6th

2nd grade team
May 6, 2019
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Important Dates:

Monday, May 6th- Friday May 10th: Georgia Milestones

What We're Learning-

Reading:

Week's Theme:

How can robots enhance our life?

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RI 2.6 Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

RI 2.2 Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text

Essential Questions:

What does the author want readers to understand from this text?

Comprehension Skill:

Sequencing, planning the reading process

Comprehension Strategy:

Scan and plan: decide the best way to efficiently read non-fiction text.

ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week we continue our second grade spiral review. During these last couple 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 working on themed words!

Math

Math 2.1

We will begin to answer some important questions this week as we begin to develop our multiplication skills!

• How are odd and even number lines identified on the number line?

• How do I determine if a number is odd or even?

• What strategies can I use to tell if a number is odd or even?

• What is odd? What is even?

• How does skip counting help us solve repeated addition problems

Math 2.2

This week students will be understanding concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and addition. W will find the area of a rectangle with whole- number side lengths by tiling it and multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in context of solving real world and mathematical problems

Math 3.1

This week we will begin a spiral review that will focus on reviewing our multiplication facts! It is our goal to be as fluent as possible before 3rd grade.