Mrs. Vaughn's Padawans: Weekly Learning Goals

What We're Learning This Week

** 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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Activities

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