Ask your 2nd Grader:

• How does the Little Yellow Leaf change in the book, The Little Yellow Leaf?
• What similarities and differences are there between the texts The Little Yellow Leaf and
• How Do You Know It’s Fall?
• What is an adjective? What are three adjectives that describe fall?
• What is the value of the 9 in the number 93?
• Can you represent the number 273 with a pictorial model?
• What hemispheres are separated by the equator? What hemispheres are separated by the prime meridian?
• In which hemispheres do we live?

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:

• Recount what happens in a fiction story.
• Determine the central message of a fiction story.
• Compare a character’s problem in the beginning of the story and at the end of the story.
• Form complete sentences with multiple subjects.
• Construct simple sentences with one or more subjects and multiple verbs.
• Choose evidence to support an explanation of how a character changes.
• Write an informative paragraph about how a character changes. Include a topic sentence and evidence that supports the topic.

Tennessee Foundational Skills:

• Short and long vowel spellings
• Tricky Words (words that do not play by the rules)
• Unscramble sentences
• Contractions
• Quotation Marks
• Ask and answer questions about key details in our student reader
• Fables

Math:

• Representing Numbers to 1,000

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

• Earth’s natural processes (erosion, weathering)

Dates to Remember:

• Songwriters Night – Thursday, September 28th
• Navigator Day – Wednesday, October 4th
• No School for Students – Friday, October 6th
• Fall Break: October 9th-13th