Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What important job does the stomach do as part of the digestive system?
• What important job does the small intestine do as part of the digestive system?
• What is the purpose of the apostrophe in contractions?
• What is another way to say 3:15? 
• What time is it when it’s a quarter to 10?
• What is the difference between a right and a responsibility?
• Which group of Americans gained the right to vote on August 19th, 1920?
• Who wrote a poem about the attack on Fort McHenry?

What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:

 ELA (English Language Arts):

• Wit and Wisdom Module 4: Good Eating
  • Essential Question: How does food nourish us?
  • Learning Goals: 
    • Read and understand the purpose of captions in a text.
    • Identify reasons that support the author’s point in “Food and Family”.
    • Use apostrophes to form contractions.
    • Make observations and generate questions about Stone Soup.
    • Determine the meaning of words formed when the suffixes -ful and -less are added to known root words.
    • Ask and answer questions about Bone Button Borscht.
    • Identify and match reflexive pronouns in Bone Button Borscht with their antecedent.
    • Recall story elements from the text Bone Button Borscht.
    • Identify important details when listening to a read aloud. 
    • Experiment with forming opinion statements.
    • Consider real-life connections between closely related verbs (trudged, hurried, hobbled, sped, rushed) and their use in order to distinguish their shades of meaning. 

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • Read words with different spellings for the /o/ sound – /o/ spelled ‘a’ as in drama
  • Review the tricky ‘a’ spelling – /a/ as in hat, /ae/ as in paper, /o/ as in water, /o/ as in father, schwa sound as in about
  • Identify the elements of a paragraph (topic sentence, supporting details, concluding sentence)
  • Write a paragraph
  • Identify the topic of a paragraph
  • Edit a paragraph and identify any irrelevant information
  • Alphabetize to the second letter
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in the non-fiction student reader, The War of 1812
  • Spelling words: general, mortar, ragtag, knotty, fired, peace, treaty, proud, soldiers, Mississippi, traders, streak, defend, river, goods, highways, drains, hickory, orphan, New Orleans

Math:

• Time 
• Money

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

• Animal Classification 
• Butterfly Life Cycle

Dates to Remember:

• May 5 – Field Day
• May 8 – Field Trip to Travellers Rest
• May 22 – Last Day of School (½ Day)