Week 2

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Take Home Folders:

Go home every school day and are returned the next school day.

You will find homework or books. Please put any notes in here that you wish to send to school.

More information about homework will be addressed on Back to School Night (BTSN)

Thursday Folders:

There will be an extra folder in the “take-home folder” with student work that stays at home and the folder comes back on Sunday completely empty. If you have any questions please contact the homeroom teacher.

What’s Going on This Week in Grade 2

Readers’ Workshop

Taking Charge of My Reading: This unit helps our readers to make decisions based on habits, volume, and stamina. We will discover the array of books in our libraries and talk about reading to in partnerships. Readers will review how to find just right books by trying on books like one might try on a shirt, checking to see if this book fits, if it is just right. We use the five-finger rule, but we also know that a book should be a smooth read, that when reading aloud we should read like we are talking smoothly.

Essential Question:

• How can I become a strong, independent reader?

Some suggested discussions to do at home:

• Ask your child how to find a just right book.
• Discuss some favorite genres and what they like about it.
• Read and talk about books

Writers’ Workshop

In our first unit, students will write about one small moment (not the whole birthday but one specific moment). They will learn to choose an action, talk or setting to make a good beginning. Our writers will tell stories in order orally and in writing. They will also choose an action, talk, or feeling to make a good ending. Students will be pushed this unit to write a lot of lines on a page and across lots of pages.

This week we will be getting to know our students through discussions as students will take 3 On-Demands (narrative, opinion, and informational) this week. We will also work on spelling and review simple punctuation.  

Essential Question:

• How can I use the craft moves from a mentor authors' writing?

Some suggested activities you can do at home:

• Brainstorm topics to write about
• Talk about small moments vs. a whole event

Math

YEAR AT A GLANCE

Second Grade mathematics is about (1) extending students’ understanding of base-ten notation; (2) building fluency with addition and subtraction; (3) using standard units of measure; and (4) describing and analyzing shapes.

• Module 1: Sums and Differences to 20

• Module 2: Addition and Subtraction of Length Units

• Module 3: Place Value, Counting, and Comparison of Numbers to 1000
• Module 4: Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100
• Module 5: Addition and Subtraction Within 1000 with Word Problems to 100
• Module 7: Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data Module 8: Time, Shapes, and Fractions as Equal Parts of Shapes
• Module 8: Time and Shapes

Module 1 sets the foundation for students to master sums (addition) and differences (subtraction) to 20. Students then apply these skills to fluently add one-digit to two- digit numbers at least through 100 using place value understanding, properties of addition and subtraction, and the relationship between these operations.

Essential Questions

• How can strategies be used to quickly add and subtract?
• Would drawings or concrete materials be helpful in this situation?
• Which is the best strategy to use to solve addition or subtraction problems?

*Don’t forget to check out Eureka Math at https://greatminds.org/

* Module 1 Parent Tips

Social Studies

Students will learn about how all people are different and talk about how we can accept these differences. We will discuss how to relate to others and that we all have our own opinions, habits, and ways of life. e proud of your own culture, but also smile and admire other ways of life as examples of the diversity of the nations and regions of interest to you.

Essential Questions:

• Are cultures the same?

Some suggested discussions you can have at home:

How can you...

• show respect for the ideas of others.
• work collaboratively.

Circles

Focus: Routines, getting to know each other, and respectful behavior especially when working with others