This week our second grade students will be learning:
Reading: Students will learn to ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. They will describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Math: Students will learn to fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers. They will also fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. They will use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Writing: Students will learn how to write a narrative text by learning about small moments and discussing ideas with a partner.
Science: Students will learn about the structure and properties of matter. Students will learn that different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Also, matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.
Social Studies: They will learn about what makes up a family. Students will review the basic needs of people including food, clothing and shelter. Students will learn how families meet their basic needs in the local community.