Ask your 2nd Grader:

• ●  What is the setting in the story, A Color of His Own? Who are the characters? What is the problem and resolution?
  ●  How does the chameleon change in A Color of His Own?

  ●  What are the subjects in the following sentence? Birds and butterflies migrate to warmer winter homes.
  
  ●  Which digit has the highest value in the number 296?

  ●  Can you represent the number 793 in expanded form?

  ●  Why is soil important? What is it used for?

  ●  What is weathering?

  What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:
  
  ELA (English Language Arts):
  ●  Wit and Wisdom Module 1: A Season of Change

• ○  Essential Question: How does change impact people and nature?

○  Learning Goals:

• Vary sentence structures by combining sentences using conjunctions.
• Record observations and questions about a nonfiction text.
• Identify a connection between leaves and trees.
• Connect academic vocabulary words separate and shape with content knowledge from previously read texts.
• Identify the main topic and details of an informational text.
• Examine and identify characteristics of conclusions.

• ●  Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • ○  /ou/ sound spelled ou and ow
  • ○  /oi/ sound spelled oi and oy
  • ○  /er/ sounds spelled er
  • ○  Tricky Words (words that do not play by the rules)
  • ○  Quotation Marks
  • ○  Ask and answer questions about key details in our student reader
  • ○  The writing process (plan, draft, edit, publish)

    Math:

• ●  Represent Numbers to 1,000
• ●  Numbers on a Number Line

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

○ Earth’s natural processes (erosion, weathering)

Dates to Remember:
●  Songwriters Night – Thursday, September 28th

●  Navigator Day – Wednesday, October 4th

●  No School for Students – Friday, October 6th
●  Fall Break: October 9th-13th