2nd Grade Newsletter: 01/31/25
Ask your 2nd Grader:
- What does the prefix in- mean? What does the word injustice mean?
- Who faced an injustice in the two Wit and Wisdom books you’ve read this week?
- What is an adjective? Can you give an example?
- What do you know about measuring?
- How do timelines help us learn about and understand history?
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:
- Make connections among a series of historical events in the text.
- Determine the essential meaning of an informational text by looking closely at historical photographs.
- 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.
- Describe how repeated language conveys meaning in a song.
- Answer the Focusing Question Task using information from two sources.
- Use multiple sources when writing an informative paragraph.
- Explain the purpose of adverbs and identify what they modify.
- Describe how repeated words connect to meaning in a song.
- Distinguish shades of meaning among the related verbs ask, tell, command, deman, request, order, force.
- Demonstrate an understanding of word relationships by categorizing words related to integration and segregation.
- Use the known root word equal to determine the meaning of the words equality and equally.
- Tennessee Foundational Skills:
- Alphabetize
- Review the /u/ (short u) sound and it’s spellings – ‘u’ as in duck, ‘o’ as in son, ‘ou’ as in touch, ‘o_e’ as in come
- Read words with different spellings for the schwa sound – ‘a’ as in about, ‘e’ as in debate
- Subject and predicate and compound subject and predicate
- Review parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives)
- Review contractions
- Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader
- Spelling words: knight, might, high, right, frightened, light, bright, crying, pry, why, nearby, trying, sky, drying, kingdom
Math:
- Measuring Length
Social Studies/Science (We will rotate between science and social studies every two weeks.):
- Forces and Interactions
Dates to Remember:
- February 4th: Progress Reports Issued
- February 7th: 2nd Grade Field Trip to the National Museum of African American Music
- February 14th: Valentine Parties
- February 17th: No School
Reminders:
We are heading to the National Museum of African American Music on Friday, February 7th. This field trip is a great compliment to our upcoming civil rights unit. The cost of the field trip is $5. Payment can be made at schoolcashonline.com. Please return permission slips and complete payment as soon as possible. Additionally, students should wear their navigator/field trip tshirt with SSA bottom on the day of the field trip and bring a lunch from home unless a cafeteria lunch was requested on the permission slip.