Important Dates: 

• November 24 – 28: Thanksgiving holiday, students do not report
• December 2nd: – Stockpile Day (students do not report)
• December 10th: Community Room Coffee (see below)
• December 11th: – 1st Grade Music Performance
• December 18th: Club Ensemble Performances
• December 19th: – 1/2 Day for Students, Winter Break begins
• December 22 – January 2nd: Winter Break
• January 5th: Stockpile day (students do not report)

Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What are some of the challenges that the pioneers faced on their journey to the Oregon Territory?  (walking behind the wagon, steep mountains, crossing rivers)
• What do the phrases “lighten their load” and “setting watch” mean?
• What did the pioneers do when it was too windy to start a fire?  (eat cold meals)
• What is the antonym of sour, day, front?  (sweet, night, back)
• What is the synonym for large, dirty, lawn?  (enormous, filthy, yard)
• What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?  (Proper nouns must be capitalized.)
• What is a proper noun for street, principal, holiday? (Otter Creek Rd, Dr. Young, Thanksgiving)
• Which number is greater than. . .  723   or  847?
• How did you know 847 was greater than 723?  (There are more hundreds.)
• If you have 23 tens, how many hundreds could you make?  (2)
• Is this true or false?  900 is greater than 90 tens.  (false – They are equal.)

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?
  • Focusing Question: What life lesson can we learn from the story of the Bluebonnet?
  • Text: The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola
  • Learning Goals:
    • Determine the lesson of The Legend of the Bluebonnet and explain how it is supported by key details.
    • Orally recount what happens in the story.
    • Explore story events and character responses.
    • Experiment with creating introductory statements for informative paragraphs.
    • Answer the Focusing Question Task.

• • Tennessee Foundational Skills: REVIEW skills from Unit 3
    • Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader, The Job Hunt.
    • Sounds: /er/ spelled with er, ir, ur (ex. verb, first, hurt); short i sound spelled with a ‘y’ (ex. myth, gym, system); long i sound spelled with ‘i’ (ex. kind, wild, mind); long i sound spelled with ‘igh’ (high, night, flight)
    • Spelling Words: hawk, yawn, crawl, vault, haunted, causes, oil, spoiled, coin, cowboy, enjoy destroy, moon, spool, cartoon
• No tricky words this week.

Math:

• Unit 6: Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Social Studies: The American West

Dates to Remember:

• • November 24 – 28: Thanksgiving holiday, students do not report

• Tuesday, Dec. 2 – no school for kids – special election

• Friday, Dec. 5 – Field Trip to Country Music Hall of Fame

Reminders:

• Yearbooks are on sale now.  If you would like to order, click on this link  yearbookordercenter.com and use code 26776 to order today.

• Kids Heart Challenge is happening.  Please see your child’s Friday folder for more information and sign up today at heart.org/schools or follow this direct link to Percy Priest’s home page. Please direct any questions to Mrs. Tanner at amy.tanner@mnps.org.