Week of January 13th

Important Dates:

January 15th- Globetrotter Passport Check;

Yearbook Cover contest due

January 17th- Culture Class

January 20th Martin Luther King Jr. Day- Observed. No School

What We're Learning:

Reading

Week's Theme: Imagination and creativeness lead to discoveries the can change the world.

Literacy Skill Focus: Standard:

RI 2.3 Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

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

Essential Question: What qualities do inventors need?

How do scientific ideas and images in a text contribute to and clarify a text?

English/ Language Arts

Mentor Sentence: This week, we will be focusing on ending punctuation using our text, Three Cheers for Tacky

Phonics:

We will studying y as long e. For example; happy, baby, and sleepy

Math 2.1

In math, we will begin our topic of time. Second graders are expected to tell time to the nearest five minutes (This should be part of your daily routine for the remainder of the year through Math Maintenance. Understand the relationship of hours and days

Math 2.2

Rounding Rounding rounding! This week we are all about rounding numbers to the nearest tenth and hundredth. Students will also investigate, understand, and use place value to manipulate numbers. Students will build on understanding of place value to round whole numbers.

Math 3.1

Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.

Science

This week we will blast off to the moon! we will learn about how the moon goes through phases each month. We will be describing, illustration and predicting how the appearance of the moon changes over time in a pattern.