Language Arts

Reading (review week): dictionary skills, cause and effect, fact and opinion, prefixes, suffixes, 

Writing: Humorous Fiction, continued

Conventions: contractions and pronouns
Phonics: suffixes -ly, -ful, -er, -or
prefixes un-, pre-, re-, dis-
vowel patterns aw, au, au(gh), al
consonant digraphs ph, gh, ck, ng
Spelling Words:
talk, because, August, caught, draw, walk, chalk, auto, taught, thaw, fault, launch

Math

-Making and justifying generalizations about adding even and odd numbers

-Relating unknown combinations to known combinations

-Using cubes and the number line to show how addition combinations are related

-Developing fluency with the plus 9 combinations

This Week in 2nd Grade

Social Studies

We have spent the last week and a half learning about our seven continents. We learned many facts about each continent and read books like the ones pictured below. To end the unit, we made paper mache globes. As of Thursday, our balloons have been completely covered with paper mache and will be drying over the Easter break. We plan to paint them and glue our continents on this week. Thank you to all of the families who were able to donate newspapers or their time to help with the project.

We have also been studying sharks and whales. The students collected information on both topics and chose one in which to write a report. We have been busy typing these reports in computer class. We keep all of our information in neatly decorated folders like the ones pictured below.

Congratulations to our Jump Rope contest winners!

We studied words with the vowel patterns "au", "augh", and "aw."

If students are fast finishers and have a few minutes to spare, they may play our new game, Boggle. They must use the board to create words out of letters that are displayed on the Boggle Board (our door). One letter must touch the next in order to make a word. Students have shown they can put together some pretty big words.

Math

Students use square pieces of paper in order to show fourths. We studied fractions for most of the last two weeks. We studied halves, thirds, and fourths of a whole. We also studied halves, thirds, and fourths of a group.

Here, students are determining thirds of a group. For example, if three children share 27 cookies, how many would each child get?