Ask your 2nd Grader:

• How are John Henry and Johnny Appleseed similar to real-life pioneers? How are they different?
• What makes a complete sentence? What is a subject? What is a predicate?
• What is a compound sentence? Can you give an example?
• What would be the best measuring tool to use when measuring the length of a room? What would be the best measuring tool to use when measuring the length of a book?
• If someone has 26 inches of red ribbon and 83 inches of green ribbon, how much more green ribbon than red ribbon does that person have?
• What is one thing you learned from our Korean guest speaker?
• What is the difference between a producer and a consumer?

What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:

ELA (English Language Arts):
Wit and Wisdom Module 3: Civil Rights Heroes
Essential Question: How can people respond to injustice?

Learning Goals:

• Ask and answer questions about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington using a variety of question words.
• Identify the main topic of sections of an informational text.
• Generate examples of civil rights in order to understand the importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Make connections among a series of historical events in the text.
• Examine what a text and video have to say about the same topic: the injustices people faced before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Compare important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
• Use sentence-level context to determine the meaning of the words protest and refuse.
• Demonstrate an understanding of word relationships by categorizing words related to integration and segregation.

Tennessee Foundational Skills:
Alphabetizing
Review and complete end-of-unit assessments (comprehension, grammar, decoding, alphabetical order)
Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader stories.
Spelling Words: sleepy, messy, flight, sight, shy, cycle, chief, niece, believe, year, crystal, myself, ankle, model, nation

Math:
Measurement – Length

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

Dates to Remember:

• Read-a-thon: February 23rd-March 4th (Reading logs are due at 3:00 on March 4th.)
• No School: March 5th
• Book Character Dress-up Day and Half Day of School: March 8th
• Spring Break: March 11th-15th

Announcements:
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