2nd Grade News

Academic
September 28, 2017 Vocabulary
number sentence
digit
Dear 2nd Grade Families, place value
addend
I hope you are doing well! It was so nice being
able to meet with you during Parent -Teacher Conferences sum
last week. Thank you to all that were able to come. If you were unable even
to attend please email me with your availability and we can set up a odd
time to meet sometime next week. main character
setting
Tomorrow I will be sending home your childs login for
fiction
EpicBooks, Prodigy, and ReadTheory. They are not required to use
for homework, however many have expressed an interest in having who, what, where,
access at home. Along with their logins I will be sending home when,
permission slips for our first field trip of the year! We will be going to why, how
Hill Ridge Farms Thursday, October 26. punctuation
short vowel
Im in the process of building STEM bins for our class to use. long vowel
STEM bins give students the opportunity to explore, be creative and
develop early engineering skills on their own. If you are able to donate punctuation
any of the following items it is greatly appreciated! We are in need of: narrative
states of matter
Legos KEVA planks (or Jenga blocks) classify
small (3oz.) dixie cups, notecards suburb, urban,
large & small popsicle sticks Play-Doh rural
straws scotch tape Upcoming Events
10/10 Yearbook Photos
I hope you have a wonderful evening and if you have any questions
10/13 Class Picture Day
or concerns please dont hesitate to ask.
10/26 Field Trip (Hill Ridge
Farms)
10/31 K-2 Fall Festival

What we are learning

This week in reading we have focusing on the setting of a story and plot. We have been talking
about visualizing, using our 5 senses as a strategy to improve our reading comprehension. We
have been working on identifying types of sentences and have been reviewing nouns. We have
started editing and final drafting for our personal narratives. In math, we are learning about
different ways to represent numbers and putting numbers in order from least to greatest or
greatest to least using place value. In social studies, we learned about the life and legend of
Johnny Appleseed. We will begin learning about the purpose of government and the 3 branches.
In science are learning about the states of matter and how objects can change from on state
to another.


Essential Questions

How would you describe the main character? Why did you describe them that way?
Does the main character remind you of anyone you know?
What might cause a character in a story to change?
Where/ when does this story take place?
What are you picturing/ imagining as you read? What can see, smell, hear, touch?
What is a noun? How are common nouns different from proper nouns?
How do I arrange numbers in order? Where should I look?
What different ways are there to show a number besides standard form?
How would you write (2 or 3 digit number) in expanded form?
__ tens is the same as _____?
How do you know whether a number is even or odd?
What makes solid, liquid, gas different from each other? How do they change from one state
to another?