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