What We're Learning This Week
Quarter 1 Week 3
** No School Friday, September 1st**
READING
Our Goals
- LAFS.2.RI.2.4 - Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
- LAFS.2.SL.1.1 - Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
- Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
- Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.
- Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.
- LAFS.2.RI.1.1 - Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
- LAFS.2.RI.1.2 - Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
- L.1.2a - Capitalize dates and names of people.
Activities
- SIPPS Challenge 4
- Watch Frog or Toad video.
- Read Frogs and Toads. (Story of the Week)
- 4-Square Vocabulary: Vocabulary Word (1) Definition (2) Synonym (3) Sentence (4) Picture
- Mimio Template (Grammar): Holidays, Products, and Geographic Locations and capitalization rules.
- SIPPS Challenge 5
- Candy Questions -- Can students answer the questions from the text correctly for candy/clip up?
- Grammar: Students create sentences in notebooks using correct capitalization of the proper nouns (1 for holiday, 1 for product, and one for a geographic location).
- SIPPS Challenge 6
Assessments
- Frogs & Toads (Formative)
- Grammar on capitalization of holidays, products, and geographic locations.
- Spelling (List #2)
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WRITING
Our Goals
- LAFS.2.W. 1.2 - Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Activities
- How to Write a Paragraph (Slides 1-13)
- How to Write a Paragraph (Slides 14-18)
- Brainstorm class topics.
- 6 Ways to Hook a Reader (Discuss, and paste in writing journal.)
- Topic vs Topic Sentence Chart (cut and sort worksheet)
SOCIAL STUDIES
Our Goals
- SS.A.1.2 - Utilize the media center, technology, or other informational sources to locate information that provides answers to questions about a historical topic.
- SS.2.G.1.1 - Use different types of maps (political, physical, and thematic) to identify map elements.
Activities
- Introduce the term map, create a circle map and discuss what a map is used for, what symbols are on the map, as a class explore a map.
- Watch: Learning About Maps video and/or this video.
- Parts of Map Worksheet
- Campground Map/Davis Street Map
- Royal Castle Map
MATH
Our Goals
- MAFS.K12.MP.1.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- MAFS.K12.MP.7.1 Look for and make use of structure.
- MAFS.2.NBT.2.5 Begin to add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction
- Daily Calendar Math
- Mimio File “T1L5 – Dot Cards”. How many do you see? How do you see them?
- Breaking down equations by 10s to solve easier.
- Watch: Adding and Subtracting by 10s
- Decomposing 10s with pennies
- Friends of 10 game
- Watch: Doubles +1
- Play Doubles +1 Game
Assessments
- Doubles + 1 Exit Ticket (Formative)
SCIENCE
Our Goals
- SC.2.N.1.1 - Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them in teams through free exploration and systematic observations, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.
- SC.2.N.1.5 - Distinguish between empirical observation (what you see, hear, feel, smell, or taste) and ideas or inferences (what you think).
- Predict what may happen prior to engaging in an exploration activity based on one of their questions.
- Record data in the form of observations using the five senses during the activity in a science notebook.
- Hand in Hand Activity (Science Fusion Flipchart pg. 2)
- Science Inquiry Skills Powerpoint
- Inquiry Skills Matching Worksheet
- Science Fusion Workbook Pg 4-12
- Make Connections Activity
- Think Central: Unit 1 Lesson 1: How do we use Inquiry Skills
Parents: Try playing this fun video song for your child on the Scientific Method by Have Fun Teaching or this scientific method song by Jack Hartman. This PBS website is also a great resource on the various scientific inquiry skills your child should be learning.
Assessments
- Unit 1: Lesson 1 Quiz (Formative)
