Week of Oct 28 - November 1

THIS WEEK'S OBJECTIVES:

Language Arts

Question of the week: Why is it a good idea to work together?

Story of the week: The Bremen Town Musicians 

Comprehension Skill: cause and effect

Phonics Skill: plurals

Spelling Words: lunch, lunches, story, stories, tune, tunes, switch, switches, baby, babies, note, notes

Conventions: plural nouns that change spelling

Math

-recognizing that rectangular prisms have rectangular faces

-comparing and constructing rectangular prisms

-showing time to half hour and recording digital time

-using known combinations to add 2 or more numbers

-understanding that order does not matter when adding numbers

-relating doubles to near doubles

Science

-looking at Matter

-understanding the properties of solids, liquids, and gases

This Week in 2nd Grade

Writing

We studied biographies this week. Students interviewed an adult and used that information to put together a biography. Here are a few hanging in the hall.

Language Arts

We can make words with "ir", "ur", and "er" on the SmartBoard.

 Our story of the week was called "Scarcity." We read through the story together and discussed the ways our lives can change when resources are scarce.

These students are rereading our story of the week with a partner.

Red Ribbon Week

We made posters for Red Ribbon Week with the help of Miss Taylor. Miss Taylor is our Northern Wolf we adopted from NSU! She visits us and helps us out every Tuesday morning.

Here is our final project. We made sunglasses as the theme for Red Ribbon Week is

 "Our Future is Bright-No Drugs in Sight"

Math

We studied quadrilaterals and right angles. We had fun drawing many rectangles and making even more on our geoboards.

We used 16 tiles to make these different rectangles pictured below.

 Here students were given many different sized rectangles. They used tiles to find how to order the rectangles from biggest to smallest according to their area. 

Spiders decorate our room this week!

This Week in 2nd Grade

Our Hall of Fame

These writing and art projects are on display in the hallway.

Math

Here we are combining 3-D shapes to make a whole.

One group hard at work during math.

This student displays many ways to combine numbers to make 18. Today, the students were asked to use doubles in their equations.

We studied quadrilaterals and right angles this week. We grouped our shape cards in the way listed below. 

Week of Oct 21-24, 2013

THIS WEEK'S OBJECTIVES:

Language Arts

Question of the week: How can we work together to meet people's needs?

Story of the week: Scarcity by Janeen R. Adil

Comprehension Skill: author's purpose, facts and details

Phonics Skill: r-controlled er, ir, ur

Spelling Words: person, nurse, dirt, turn, birth, serve, curb, curl, skirt, purse, turtle, her

Conventions: singular and plural nouns

Writing: My Best Friend

Math

~ordering rectangles from biggest to smallest

~covering  rectangles with arrays of tiles

~working on fluency with doubles

~making rectangular arrays

~drawing rectangles

~reviewing quadrilaterals and right angles

Social Studies

~landforms

Week of Oct. 15-18

THIS WEEK'S OBJECTIVES:

Language Arts

Question of the week: How has working together changed history?

Story of the week: Abraham Lincoln by Delores Malone

Comprehension Skill: author's purpose

Phonics Skill: contractions

Spelling Words: can't, it's, he's, I'm, didn't, who's, she's, aren't, isn't, haven't, hadn't, I'll

Conventions: proper nouns

Writing: Biographies

Math

~review known addition combinations

~review telling time to the half hour

~combining 3-D shapes to make a whole

~describing attributes of and sorting 2-D shapes

~sorting polygons

Social Studies

~naming our continent, country, state, town, and street

~Vocab: location, state, country, borders, continent

~landforms

This Week in 2nd Grade

Math

We moved into a math unit all about geometry. Students are discovering 3-D objects and how they might look if we tried to draw them. 

Students are working at different math stations around the room during math workshop time.

  At one of the stations, students must match their geoblock faces to the faces drawn on their papers.

Language Arts

We studied nouns this week. Here a student makes a noun flipbook. Each page she fills in represents each different kind of noun.

Two students use the map to find names of states and cities to add to their "place" page of their noun flipbook.

Students read in a group.

Social Studies

We made personal timelines in social studies.

Writing

We wrote FALL acrostic poems last week and decorated them with neat scarecrow men.

Week of Oct 7-10

Language Arts

Question of the week: How can we help each other in dangerous situations?

Story of the week: Tara and Tiree, Fearless Friends

Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect, features of a literary nonfiction

Phonics Skill:  r-controlled vowels

Spelling Words: hard, born, horse, before, more, smart, farm, porch, corn, chore, score, part (Test will be Thursday, Oct 10th)

Conventions: Nouns

Writing: Narrative Nonfiction

Math

~building fluency with subtraction facts

~attending to features of 3-D shapes

~drawing 3-D shapes

~identifying 3-D shapes by number and shape of faces

~combining 3-D shapes to make a whole
~building fluency with doubles addition combinations

Social Studies

~naming our continent, country, state, town, and street

~Vocab: location, state, country, borders, continent