{"id":1769,"date":"2018-04-28T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2018-04-28T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:01:35","slug":"focus-april-30-may-4-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/2018\/04\/28\/focus-april-30-may-4-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus April 30-May 4, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week our second grade students will be working on:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><strong>Reading<\/strong>: \u00a0Students will learn how to describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Math<\/strong>: \u00a0Students will\u00a0partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.\u00a0 Students will learn to measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing<\/strong>: \u00a0Students will work on opinion writing. \u00a0They will work on drafting, editing, revising and publishing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science<\/strong>: Students will learn about plants and insects. \u00a0We will be investigating and discussing butterflies, mealworms\/beetles, silkworm moths and brassica plants.\u00a0 Students will be drawing, writing, comparing and contrasting\u00a0 the life cycles of\u00a0 insects and plants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Studies<\/strong>: \u00a0Students will learn about\u00a0resources to help us understand \u00a0about the past. They will be looking at our community today and how it looked in the past.\u00a0 We will see how\u00a0 native americans have changed from the past and how they are the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/images-4.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1730\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/images-4-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week our second grade students will be working on: Reading: \u00a0Students will learn how to describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. Math: \u00a0Students will\u00a0partition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/2018\/04\/28\/focus-april-30-may-4-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}