Week of December 2nd

Important Dates:

December 2-6: Scholastic Book Fair

December 2-13: Outreach Gift Drive

December 5: Spirit Night - Fresh2Order

December 6: All Pro Dads

What We're Learning-

Reading:

Week's Theme: Characters from the same story can be different depending on who is telling the story.

Literacy Skill Focus Standard:

RL 2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

RL 2.3 Describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.

RL 2.9 Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.

Essential Questions:

*How can we summarize a story to tell the most important details?

*How does the actions a character takes relate to the type of character they are?

*How can two stories be retold in different ways?

Comprehension Skill: Summarize, determine importance

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize based on what a character wants

ELA:

Mentor Sentence: This week, we will be exploring the relationship between adjectives and nouns using the much loved book, Snowmen at Night.

Phonics: This week, we will be working on long o words. Students will be working to understand that long o words can made bu using o/oa/oe/ow.

Math

Math 2.1

We are excited to start exploring unit three. Second graders are transitioning from measuring lengths with informal units to measuring with these standard units: inches, feet, centimeters, and meters. The measure of length is a count of how many units are needed to match the length of the object or distance being measured. Students have to understand what a length unit is and how it is used to find a measurement. They will need many experiences measuring lengths with appropriate tools so they can become very familiar with the standard units and estimate lengths. We will use language that reflects the approximate nature of measurement, such as the length of the room is about 26 feet.

This week, Students will identify the different measurement tools, when to use the different measuring tools, and how to use the different measuring tools to determine the size of an object.

Math 2.2

This week, students will be reviewing all they have learned in unit 5 to prepare to show what they know on their unit assessment. In this unit students have cultivated 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

• expanding the ability to see geometry in the real world

• partitioning shapes into equal shares by cutting, slicing, or dividing

• 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

• understand what an array is and how it can be used as a model for repeated addition

• organize and record data using tallies, simple tables and charts, picture graphs, and bar graphs

Math 3.1

This week, students will begin to recognize area as an attribute of two dimensional regions. They will measure the area of a shape by finding the total number of same size square units required to cover the shape without gaps or overlaps. Students will work to understand that rectangular arrays can be decomposed into identical rows or into identical columns. By decomposing rectangles into rectangular arrays of squares, students will connect area to multiplication, and justify using multiplication to determine the area of a rectangle.

Social Studies:

This week we will be exploring how Georgia was founded. Students will learn how the cooperation and friendship between Tomochichi and James Oglethorpe were essential in order to have a successful colony. Students will also learn the importance of Mary Musgrove’s role in the founding of Georgia. They will have a full understanding of how life in modern Georgia is similar and different to the life of the settlers, including location, how needs are met, and use of resources.