What We're Learning This Week
Quarter 1 Week 8
We're learning all about rocks & social in science, reviewing how to read a map in social studies/geography, and we're reading Beauty and the Beast in reading. We're also still 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 15
- Introduce and read "Beauty and the Beast".
- Discuss prefixes and their root words (mis-, un-, re-)
- Irregular Plural Noun Memory Game
- SIPPS CHallenge 16
- Tree Map of story elements of "Beauty and the Beast".
- Who, What, Where, When, Why? Interactive Journal.
- Play Candy Questions (i.e. irregular plural nouns.)
- SIPPS CHallenge 17
- Handwriting Worksheet (Week 5 - Letters Q to T)
- Word Work - Spelling Words
- October Comprehension Journal (Reading a passage 3 times and answering questions.)
- Class Library with Comprehension WS
- Creating a class script on "Beauty and the Beast".
- Reader's Theater "Beauty and the Beast".
- Grammar Jeopardy Game.
- Exit Ticket #1 on Beauty and the Beast (Formative Quiz)
- Formative Quiz on Beauty and the Beast.
- Summative Quiz on Irregular Plural Nouns
- Spelling Test
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)
- Introduce text on Polar Bears.
- 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.
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 How to Read a Map: Math Features (Gangnam Style Parody)
- Re-introducing map vocabulary words: map key, compass rose, symbol, map, globe, longitude and latitude.
- Discuss differences between maps and globes.
- Do Maps vocabulary flip book.
- Map Vocabulary Matching WS.
- Discuss Map Key & Symbols and do Map Key Symbols WS
- Discuss Compass Rose & do Compass Rose WS.
- Discuss cardinal directions (NE, SE, SW, NW) and do Cardinal Directions WS.
Assessments
- Reading a Map Assessment (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
- Subtraction on a Number Line SCOOT Game.
- LearnZillion: Solve Length Problems PPT.
- Small Group WS.
- Eureka Mimio Activity Word Problems
- Interactive Journal Page for Subtraction Word Problem.
- Watch Number Line Word Problem - 1st and 2nd Grade.
- Take from the Result Unknown Task Cards.
- Addition and Subtraction on a Numberline (Summative).
Centers
Daily Math Practice
Number Line Subtraction WS
Number Line Hop
iXL
Find the Missing Addend Task Cards
Download Lesson PlansNumber Line Subtraction WS
Number Line Hop
iXL
Find the Missing Addend Task Cards
SCIENCE
Our Goals
- SC.2.E.6.1 - Recognize that Earth is made up of rocks. Rocks come in many sizes and shapes.
- Show "Rocks" Vocabulary Posters.
- Watch: Be a Rock Detective!
- Do "Rocks" Flip book using Science Fusion book to find answers.
- Watch Sensational Soil Subtypes PPT.
- Circle Map of Soil (Where can soil be found and what is soil used for?)
- Science Interactive Notebook: My Rock Study
- Science Fusion Books: Pg. 53-60
- Unit 2 Lesson 1 Quiz on Rocks (Formative)
- Unit 2 Lesson 2 Quiz on Soil (Formative)
Download Lesson Plans
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.
- Plural Nouns Irregular Forms: Learn the Forms
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