Ask your 2nd Grader:

• to tell you what the USS stands for in the USS Constitution.
• to tell you what the nickname is for the USS Constitution.
• to tell you why the USS Constitution is called “Old Ironsides”.

• to tell you the subject in this sentence . . . The farmer plowed the field.
• to tell you the predicate in this sentence . . . The little girl held her mother’s hand tightly.
• to tell you another way to say 4:30.
• to tell you how many hours are in the day.
• to tell you when they wake up in the morning is it 7:00 am or pm.
• to tell you something they do when it is pm.
• to tell you something about the class pets that came this week.

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?
  • Focusing Question: How can food nourish my body?
  • Text: The Digestive System by Christine Taylor-Butler
  • Learning Goals:
    • The students will continue to develop and refine their ability to ask and answer questions.
    • The students will use text features to navigate and informational text.

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:  
  • Unit 6 
  • Read and answer questions from our decodable reader, The War of 1812
  • Phonics: (review)
    • review r controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
    • various sounds for a, e, and i; schwa
    • long vowel sounds with vowel teams: ai, ay, ea, ey, ee, oe, ow,  
  • Grammar:  run on sentences; review nouns, adj., verbs, adverbs; building detailed sentences
  • Spelling Words – The words this week are frequently misspelled words in 2nd graders’ writing.  Please have your child write sentences with these words once you have practiced the correct spelling.
  • Spelling Words:  friend, because, they, said, isn’t, didn’t, they’re, really, very, any, school, favorite, could, where, here, went, every, thought, caught
  • Tricky Words: Percy Priest

Math:

•  Telling Time – to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, 5 minutes, and minute

Social Studies

• The War of 1812

Science: 

• Animals

Dates to Remember:

• April 24 – Field Trip to Traveler’s Rest 
  • Please make your child’s payment at schoolcashonline.com .
• April 27-29: Second week of TCAP testing
  • Please do not sign up to have lunch on testing days as our schedule is different due to testing.  Thank you for your help with this!

• May 5: No school for students – Election Day

• May 8th – FIELD DAY!  K–2: 9:30–11:00 
• May 11th: Green Hills Grille Spirit Night