This week our second grade students will be working on:
Reading: Students will learn how 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 to make a ten within 100 and subtract single-digit numbers from 10 within 100.
Writing: Students will work on write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. Students will use their writing to learn how to revise and edit. They will continue on to publishing.
Science: Students will continue to learn about sand and rocks. We will be sorting, investigating and discussing rocks.
Social Studies-Students will understand that communities are places where people live, work and play.
Homework:
The homework sheet is brought home on Monday which includes all the homework listed below. The homework is due the following day. Students have a homework notebook to write spelling and any other homework in. Math homework will usually be on a separate sheet of paper and can be returned to school in their folder.
Monday-read 20 minutes, math bag game, spelling-write words 5 times each, circle all the vowels and underline the consonants.
Tuesday-read 20 minutes, math lesson 5 homework, spelling make 3 lists short e, short o, and short u, sort words and add 3 words to each list.
Wednesday-read 20 minutes, math-math bag games, spelling-write each word in a sentence, math-math bag.
Thursday-read 20 minutes, spelling-have someone give you a pretend spelling test in your homework notebook, math- lesson 6 homework.
***Spelling test on Friday.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday-read 20-30 minutes