Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What do you know about capitalization? How can it change the meaning of a sentence?
• What addition and subtraction strategies have you learned this week? Which ones do you prefer to use?
• What is a pioneer? How would you describe the pioneers’ journey in the early American West?
• What are some landforms the pioneers encountered on their journey?
• What are some high pitched sounds? What are some low pitched sounds?

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?
  • Learning Goals:
    • Collect evidence of challenges and responses in a text.
    • Identify new knowledge gained from a text.
    • Ask and answer questions about a text.
    • Draft an informative paragraph with clearly explained details.
    • Integrate peer feedback to improve the clarity of ideas in an informational paragraph by adding supporting details and evidence.
    • Edit independent writing to ensure capitalization of holidays and geographic names.
    • Revise sentences with appropriate capitalization.
    • Develop vocabulary knowledge of the word tragedy using a Frayer Model.
    • Use sentence-level context to determine the meaning of the words distant, cease, and thrust.
• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • Tricky y (representing the consonant sound /y/ as in yes, the vowel sound /i/ as in myth, and the vowel sound /ie/ as in try
  • Read words with different spellings for the /oe/ sound
  • /oe/ sound spelled ‘ow’ as in snow
  • Singular and plural nouns (regular and irregular plural nouns)
  • Identify nouns and verbs in sentences
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader

Math:

• Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Social Studies/Science (We will rotate between science and social studies every two weeks.)

• Social Studies: United States Regions
• Science: Sound

Dates to Remember:

• Navigator Day: December 5th
• Art Show: December 7th
• ½ Day of School (Pajama, Movie, and Game Day): December 20th
• Winter Break: December 21st-January 8th