{"id":1294,"date":"2018-04-15T18:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2018-04-15T18:44:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T22:44:47","slug":"focus-for-the-week-of-april-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/2018\/04\/15\/focus-for-the-week-of-april-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus for the week of April 16, 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 describe how reasons support specific points the author makes 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing<\/strong>: \u00a0Students will work on informational writing. \u00a0They will work on 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Studies<\/strong>: \u00a0Students will learn about\u00a0resources to help us understand \u00a0about the past. They will be looking at an artifac<a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/02\/cropped-images-4-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1610\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/02\/cropped-images-4-1-150x150.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/02\/cropped-images-4-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/bridger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/02\/cropped-images-4-1-300x300.jpeg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>t and other information to learn and understand about the past.\u00a0 We will begin to discuss timelines and what they mean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week our second grade students will be working on: Reading: \u00a0Students will describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. Math: \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 <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/2018\/04\/15\/focus-for-the-week-of-april-16-2018\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harrisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}