Focus for the week of November 26, 2018

Welcome back!  I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.

This week our second grade students will be working on:

Reading:  Students will learn to identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

Math:  Students 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. They will count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s

Writing:  Students will write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.

Science: Students will continue to learn about the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes. This also includes  plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions

Social Studies:  Students will describe the means people create for moving people, goods, and ideas within the local community. They will compare the physical and human characteristics of the local community with those of another community. They will describe the major landforms of the Earth )mountains, plains, valleys, hills). E.FE.02.22 Describe the major bodies of water on the Earth’s surface(lakes, ponds,oceans, rivers, streams).

Spelling List for November 26, 2018

Beginning Consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, wh

Group 1: chill, sheep, think, while, chase —  five, these, many, both, found

Group 2: chill, sheep, think, while, chase —at, with, all, there, out

Test on Friday, November 30, 2018

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