Ask your 2nd Grader:

• Who impacted the prairie in a positive way?
• Who impacted the prairie in a negative way? 
• Who impacted the prairie negatively at first and then positively later? 
• What connections can you make between the American Indians, the buffalo, and the prairie?
• What new spellings have you learned for the /ie/ (long i) sound? 
• What is the difference between a common and proper noun? Can you give examples?
• What is the largest number you can make with the digits 7, 9, 3? What is the smallest number you can make with those same digits?
• How many hundreds are the same as 50 tens? How many tens are the same as 6 hundreds?
• What is sound?

What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:

 ELA (English Language Arts):

• Wit and Wisdom Module 2: The American West
  • Essential Question: What was life like in the West for early Americans? 
  • Learning Goals:
    • Identify main topics and details and explain how they are used to organize understanding of informative text.
    • Demonstrate how to choose points when writing informative text.
    • Record evidence and choose strong points for the Focusing Question Task.
    • Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns.
    • Use context clues and text features to determine the meaning of the academic and content vocabulary nomadic. 
    • Pull from a variety of strategies (context clues, root words, and glossary) to build an understanding of the academic and content word reservation. 
    • Explain what life was like for Plains Indians while practicing how to vary inflection in discussions. 
    • Express understanding of content knowledge and new skills, citing evidence from Plains Indians.

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • Identify words with the /u/ (short u) and /ue/ (long u) sounds
  • Read, write, and sort words with different spellings for /ue/ sound (‘u_e’ as in cute, ‘u’ as in unit, ‘ue’ as in cue)
  • Read words with different spellings for /aw/ sound (‘aw’ as in paw, ‘au’ as in haul, ‘augh’ as in caught
  • Antonyms and synonyms
  • Identify the correct spelling of plural nouns
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in the a decodable text that incorporates the letter-sound correspondences taught
  • Spelling words: under, noise, open, brave, cute, minus, last, foe, robber, road

Math:

• Compare Numbers to 1,000

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

• Sound: Exploring Vibrations and Pitch

Dates to Remember:

• October 28th – November 8th: Book Fair
• November 5th: No School for Students
• November 7th: Grandfriends Day (grades K-2nd)
• November 11th: No School (Veterans Day)
• November 12th: Progress Reports Issued
• November 25th-29th: No School (Thanksgiving Break)