2nd Grade Newsletter: 02/28/2025
Ask your 2nd Grader:
- What was Martin Luther King’s dream for his children? What was his dream for the world?
- Who is Ruby Bridges?
- Is happy an adjective or an adverb?
- Can you find the adverb in the following sentence? The cat ran quickly.
- What are the four parts of a pictograph?
- What is the difference between a want and a need?
- What is a budget?
What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:
ELA (English Language Arts):
- Wit and Wisdom Module 3: Civil Rights Heroes
- Essential Question: How can people respond to injustice?
- Learning Goals:
- Describe how repetition adds meaning to a song.
- Analyze point of view in a text.
- Distinguish shades of meaning among the related sets of verbs.
- Determine the essential meaning of a text by rereading and answering questions.
- Narrate an exploded moment.
- Compare the effects of sentence variety to understand its purpose and importance.
- Describe how repeated words add meaning to a text.
- Compare an important point from two texts.
- Use a temporal word in narratives to signify a sequence of events.
- Expand sentences by adding adjectives and adverbs depending on the word that is being modified.
- Tennessee Foundational Skills:
- Review the different sounds for the ‘a’ spelling: /a/ as in hat, /ae/ as in paper, schwa sound as in about
- Read words with different sounds for the ‘e’ spelling: /e/ as in left, /ee/ as in me/ schwa sound as in strategy
- Read words with different sounds for the ‘o’ spelling: /o/ as in drop, /oe/ as in hotel, /u/ as in son
- Sort sounds with the tricky spelling ‘o_e’: /oe/ as in hope, /u/ as in love
- Review the tricky spelling ‘ou’: /ou/ as in shout, /u/ as in touch
- Identify the present, past, and future tenses
- Review subject and predicate
- Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader
- Spelling words: turtle, bundle, pickle, shuffle, cattle, label, angel, gravel, jewel, fiction, education, inspection, motion, question, schwa (tricky word)
Math:
- Data Analysis
Social Studies/Science (We will rotate between science and social studies every two weeks.):
- Economics:
- Budgeting
Dates to Remember:
- March 3rd – Read-a-thon Reading Logs Due
- March 7th – Book Character Day
- March 7th – Half Day
- March 10th-14th – Spring Break