Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What is the life lesson we can learn from The Legend of the Bluebonnet?
• What is a drought, famine, and a sacrifice?
• What Indian tribe is in The Legend of the Bluebonnet? (Comanche)
• If a word ends with a ‘y’, how do you make it plural?  (If there is a consonant in front of the ‘y’, change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘es’ (baby/babies).  If there is a vowel in front of the ‘y’, just add an ‘s’. (toy/toys)
• What are some strategies you can use to solve 2 digit  addition and subtraction problems?  (pictorial model, number line, using place value, estimation)
• How would you solve 34 + 55?  How would you solve 68 – 32 =?
• When you hear the question “How many more than?” in a word problem, what are you supposed to do?  (subtract)

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: 
    • Read and answer questions about key details in the student reader, The Job Hunt.
    • Sounds: /ee/ long e sound spelled with e, ee, ea, ie, ey, e_e (ex. me, feet, seat, chief, donkey, eve ); two sounds for ‘ow” (snow/flower)
    • Grammar: Proper Nouns; verb to be
    • Spelling Words: below, yellow, elbow, rainbow, snow, sorrow, plow, flowers, growling, powder, shower, meow, chow
• Tricky Word: your

Math:

• Unit 6: Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Social Studies: The American West 

Dates to Remember:

• December 17th: SPIRIT DAY – RED DAY –  wear red to support the American Heart Association

• December 18th: GRINCH Green Day

• December 18th: Papa Johns Spirit Night

• December 19th: PAJAMA DAY

• December 19th: – 1/2 Day for Students, Winter Break begins

• December 22 – January 5th: Winter Break

• Jan. 6, 2026 – Students return!  🙂

Reminders:

• Each 2nd grader needs to bring a new book (wrapped) for our book swap on Dec. 19.  Books should be good for a boy or a girl.

• 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.