What We're Learning This Week
Quarter 1 Week 7
We're learning all about rocks & social in science, 7 continents and 5 oceans in social studies/geography, and we're reading The Fisherman and His Wife by Brother's Grimm in reading. We're also learning all about irregular plural nouns!Check out the PARENT section at the bottom for some things you can do at home to help your child study!
READING
Our Goals
- LAFS.2.RL.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.SL.1.2 - Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- LAFS.2.L.3.5a -
- Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
- Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy).
- Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).
- LAFS.2.L.3.4b - Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell).
- LAFS.2.RL.1.2 - Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
- LAFS.2.RL.2.5 - Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
- LAFS.2.RL.3.7 - Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
- LAFS.2.RL.1.3 - Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
- Grammar: L.1.1c - Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).
Activities
- SIPPS Challenge 12
- Introduce and read "The Fisherman and His Wife".
- Vocabulary words: hut, might, enchanted, dinky, charming, content, dejected, hesitated, haughtily.
- Major Events WS.
- Examine the prefix dis- and how it changes and alters words. (please/displease, agree/disagree, appear/disappear.)
- Irregular Plural Noun Memory Game
- SIPPS CHallenge 13
- Tree Map of story elements of "The Fisherman and His Wife".
- SIPPS CHallenge 14
- Examine role of illustrator.
- Review the sequence of the story.
- Irregular Plural Noun and Around the World Game
- Irregular Plural Noun Sort (Centers)
- Fisherman & Wife Book Flap (Characters, Setting, Events, Moral of Story) - (Centers)
- Handwriting Worksheet (Week 4)
- Exit Ticket #1 on The Fisherman and His Wife (Formative Quiz)
- Exit Ticket #2 on The Fisherman and His Wife (Formative Quiz)
- Formative Quiz on The Fisherman and His Wife Story.
- Formative Quiz on Irregular Plural Nouns
- SIPPS Assessment #1
Parents: The Fisherman and His Wife video.
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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
- Review the main parts of a paragraph (hook, details, and conclusion)
- Brainstorm new class informational topic.
- Fill out graphic organizer.
- Introduce Peer Review/Rubric.
- Students work on rough draft and then begin peer reviews.
- Teacher/Student conferences (student self evaluate using the rubric.)
- Write final draft & share.
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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.1.3 - Label on a map or globe the continents, oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North and South Pole.
- Watch the 7 Continents Song
- 7 Continents & 5 Oceans Mini Book.
- Label on a map or globe the continents, oceans, Equator, Prime Meridian, North and South Pole.
- Watch the Oceans Song.
- 7 Continents Worksheet (and write in the 5 oceans).
- Continents & Oceans review mimio activity.
Assessments
- Label the World (Formative Quiz)
MATH
Our Goals
- MAFS.2.MD.2.6 - Represent whole numbers as length from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, ..., and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram
- MAFS.K12.MP.5.1 Use appropriate tools strategically.
- MAFS.K12.MP .6.1 Attend to precision.
- MAFS.K12.MP.7.1 Look for and make use of structure.
- MAFS.2.MD.2.5 Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word
- problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawing of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
- Daily Calendar Math
- Practice "make 10 strategy".
- Create a numberline 1-100. (Cut & Paste)
- LearnZillion Practice WS (2 Days) -- work out on Mimio
- Racing Riley's Digital Lesson & Game (with racecars).
- Addition on a number line (Formative)
Centers
Daily Math Practice
What am I? Task Cards (Number Line Prompt)
Number line Craftivity
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Number line Craftivity
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SCIENCE
Our Goals
- SC.2.E.6.1 - Recognize that Earth is made up of rocks. Rocks come in many sizes and shapes.
- Review the Scientific Method, Scientific Tools, and Science Inquiry Skills
- Watch The Scientific Method Song
- Introduce Rocks & Soil
- Rocks & Minerals Tab-It Book
- Enagage in “Rocks Up Close” Activity (Science Inquiry Flip Chart page 7), Think Central: Unit 2 Lesson 1- What are Rocks?
- Science Fusion Workbook pages 41-50
- Bill Nye the Science Guy (Rocks & Soil) and (The Rock Cycle)
- Watch Magic School Bus: Season 3 Episode 13 “Rocks and Rolls”
- Unit 1 Assessment (Science Tools/Scientific Method, and Science Inquiry Skills)
- Unit 2 Assessment Rocks & Soil (Formative) #1
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PARENTS
- Rocks, Erosion and Weathering poster set.
- Types of Rocks
- Prefixes Tab-It booklet (We talk about dis- prefix!)
- Irregular Plural Noun Go Fish Game
- Make 10 Dinosaur "True False" Game.
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