This week our second grade students will be learning:

Reading:  Students will learn to ask and answer questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Math:  Students will learn toAdd and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.They will mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-900.Students will explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.

Writing:  Students will learn how to write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events by developing believable characters in my story

Science: Students will learn about plants and how they grow.  They will explore life cycles of silkworms, mealworms and butterflies.

Social Studies: Students will explain why people cannot have everything they want (scarcity) and describe how people respond (choice). They will describe the natural, human, and capital resources needed for production of a good or service in a community

Spelling: 

patterns-ge, -dge, – rge, – nge, -lge

Group 1:  age, indulge, range, pledge, large, clock, plate, true, leave, stood

Group 2:  age, indulge, range, pledge, large,put, take, every, old, by

Test on Friday, April 12, 2019