2nd Grade News

Academic
October 5, 2017

Vocabulary
number
Dear 2nd Grade Families, sentence
digit
I hope you have had a wonderful week! I wanted to
place value
start by thanking Mrs. Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Maitra, and Mrs.
Thompsen for donating supplies for our STEM Bins. Today we started addend
on a tower building challenge and the students had a blast! sum
standard form
Permission slips for our field trip to Hill Ridge Farms went home on expanded form
Friday. If it did not make its way home please let me know and I will main character
send home another copy. The book fair is next week. We will preview setting
the sale Tuesday and will have time to purchase books Thursday.
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Our first annual K-2 Fall Festival to be held Tuesday, October who, what, where,
31st from 11:45 am to 2:45 pm. We have planned a day packed full of when,
fun and excitement for our K-2 students to enjoy. Students are why, how
welcome to dress up as their favorite book character for the day. punctuation
However, they are strongly urged to bring a copy of the book that short vowel
matches the costume worn. long vowel
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For this event to be a success we need your help! We are in need of
a few more supplies for the activities as well as parents who are able narrative
to volunteer their time the day of to run various fall themed activities. states of matter
Please use the following sign-up genius links below if you are able to classify
help out: suburb, urban,
rural
Supplies: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4dada822a0f49-fall Upcoming Events
Volunteers: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0c4facab2da7f58-fall
10/8-12 Book Fair
10/10 Yearbook Photos
Thank you in advance for your time and support to help make this a 10/13 Class Picture Day
fun-filled, memorable experience for your children! I hope you have a 10/26 Field Trip (Hill Ridge
wonderful evening! Farms)
10/31 K-2 Fall Festival

What we are learning

This week in reading we have focusing on the setting of a story and plot. We have been talking
about asking questions as a strategy to improve our reading comprehension. We have been
working on identifying common and proper nouns. In math, we are learning about different
ways to represent numbers and putting numbers in order from least to greatest or greatest to
least using place value. In social studies, we will begin learning about the purpose of government
and the 3 branches. In science we will begin learning about classifying animal groups.


Essential Questions

How would you describe the main character? Why did you describe them that way?
Does the main character remind you of anyone you know?
What might cause a character in a story to change?
Where/ when does this story take place?
What are you picturing/ imagining as you read? What can see, smell, hear, touch?
What is a noun? How are common nouns different from proper nouns?
How do I arrange numbers in order? Where should I look?
What different ways are there to show a number besides standard form?
How would you write (2, 3 or 4-digit number) in expanded form?
__ tens is the same as _____?
How do you know whether a number is even or odd?
What makes solid, liquid, gas different from each other? How do they change from one state
to another?