January 4- January 15

Welcome back!

We have a busy 2 weeks ahead in 2nd grade, here's what's going on! 

Ms. Gwen, our puppeteer will begin working with students January 11 creating their very own glove puppet.  Please be sure your child brings in 1 empty toilet paper roll or paper towel roll cut in half to create their puppet!  We have a very generous supply started thanks to the Roberts Family!  

Math:  Money- counting, adding, and subtracting passed $1

Time- to the minute, reading clocks, and drawing the hands, using more than one way to describe the time (i.e.: 4:15 or a quarter after 4), using am and pm 

Word Problems- explaining our thinking and showing multiple strategies

Fractions- looking at pictures and describing the shaded and unshaded regions, fractions of a set, equivalent fractions

Language Arts:  Retell, Identify the genre, explain the moral, read nonfiction text using the text features, writing procedural text, vowel teams, write a story about the puppet they are creating using descriptive words 

Science:  Digestive system- label the parts, describe the basic function, ways to take care of it, and describe the process

Respiratory system-  label the parts, describe the basic function, ways to take care of it, and describe the process

Circulatory system-  label the parts, describe the basic function, ways to take care of it, and describe the process