Week of March 9

Important Dates:

Tuesday, March 10- SGC 7:10-8:40

Friday, March 13- Teacher Workday

What We're Learning:

Reading:

Week Theme: Favorite authors can teach us about characters and life in a way that can make us laugh.

Literacy Skill Focus Standards:

RL2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

RL2.2 Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Essential Questions:

How can we use the text and background knowledge to infer a character's traits?

What lesson does the author want readers to learn?

Language Arts:

We will be reading The Umbrella and learning how sound effects (onomatopoeia) make stories more interesting.

Phonics:

We will be learning about silent consonants.

Math:

2.1 Depending on your kiddo's homeroom, your learner will either be taking their unit 4 assessment or beginning to dive into unit 5. In unit 4, your kiddo will have learned to:

• Add and subtract three digit numbers with and without regrouping using multiple strategies

• Solve money word problems

• Interpret data

• Understand the relationship between addition and subtraction

Standards covered in unit 4:

MGSE2.NBT.6

MGSE2.NBT.8

MGSE2.NBT.9

MGSE2.MD.8

MGSE2.MD.10

In unit 5, students will begin their study of both plane and solid figures! Students will describe and analyze shapes by examining their sides and angles. Students will investigate, describe, and reason about decomposing and combining shapes to make other shapes. Through building, drawing, and analyzing two- and three-dimensional shapes, students will develop a foundation for understanding area, volume, congruence, similarity, and symmetry in later grades.

Standards that will be covered in unit 5:

MGSE2.G.1 MGSE2.G.2 MGSE2.G.3 . MGSE2.MD.10

2.2- Students will be working to develop an understanding of the meanings of multiplication and division of whole numbers through activities and problems involving equal-sized groups, arrays, and area models.

3.1- Students will diving into unit 5 this week! Students will working on understanding and representing fractions through the use of a number line, and developing deep understanding of fractional parts, sizes, and relationships between fractions. This is a foundational building block of fractions, which will be extended in future grades. Students will have ample experiences using the words, halves, thirds, fourths, and quarters, and the phrases half of, third of, fourth of, and quarter of. Students will also work with the idea of the whole, which is composed of two halves, four fourths or four quarters, etc.

Science:

We will continue studying forces and motion this week.