This week our second grade students will be working on:
Reading: Students will learn how to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Math: Students will learn to solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and cent symbols appropriately. Students will understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amount of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. They will read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Students will learn to mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 of 100 from a given number 100-900. They will understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Also, they will read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.They will solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?
Writing: Students will work on narrative writing. They will work on drafting, editing, revising and publishing.
Science: Students will continue to learn about plants and insects. We will be investigating and discussing butterflies, mealworms/beetles, silkworm moths and brassica plants. Students will be drawing, writing, comparing and contrasting the life cycles of insects and plants.
Social Studies-Students will understand that communities have to solve issues by taking sides on a community issue and giving facts to support their decision. We will be studying and taking our unit test this week.