Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What is a cycle? How does the Sky Tree text show the cycle of seasons?
• Why is revision important?
• When using a number line to add, which direction do you move on the number line? Why?
• When using a number line to subtract, which direction do you move on the number line? Why?
• On what continent do we live? What other countries are in North America?
• What is a border? What countries share a border with the United States? What borders the United States on the east and west?

What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:

ELA (English Language Arts):

• Wit and Wisdom Module 1: A Season of Change
  • Essential Question: How does change impact people and nature?
  • Learning Goals:
    • Synthesize evidence from two texts in an informative paragraph about how changes in fall impact plants and animals.
    • Revise and publish an informative paragraph about how changes in fall impact plants or animals.
    • Describe knowledge and skills gained from studying module texts.
    • Demonstrate understanding of module vocabulary by analyzing correct and incorrect use in context.
• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • /oe/ (long o) sound spelled o_e, o, oe, oa
  • Decode two-syllable words with tricky o spelling
  • Noun review
  • Ask and answer questions about stories in the student reader.

Math:

• Compare Numbers to 1,000

Social Studies/Science (We will rotate between science and social studies every two weeks.):

• Maps and Globes
  • Physical and Political Maps

Important Information:

• Second Grade Harvest Parties will be on October 31st from 1:45-2:40. We would love to have parents join us for the Harvest Party. Unfortunately, we do not have the space to accommodate younger siblings, so this is a parents only event.

Dates to Remember:

• Report Cards Issued: October 24th
• Parent Teacher Conferences: October 27th
• Harvest Party: October 31st