Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What does equality mean?
• What was Dr. King’s dream? 
• What is an adjective to describe the noun child?
• What is the adjective in this sentence? Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
• What questions do adverbs answer?  (how, when, where)
• What is the adverb in this sentence?  The children happily played together.

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?
  • Focusing Question: What injustices did people face before the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
  • Text: I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Learning Goals:
    • Examine the impact of repeated language in I Have a Dream.
    • Use an additional source to answer a question in an informative paragraph.
    • Determine the meaning of a new word formed when the prefix re- is added to a known word.
    • Write an informative paragraph drawing evidence from two sources.  
    • Compare and contrast the main points of two texts on Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech.              

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:  
  • Unit 5
  • Read and answer questions from our decodable reader, Sir Gus
  • Vocabulary development:  adjectives
  • Sounds and spelling:  ‘o_e’ with  short u sound (ex. come); ‘ou’ with short u  sound (ex. country); ABC order; schwa sound (ex. about, debate, pizza)
  • Spelling Words: knight, might, high, right, frightened, light, bright, crying, pry, why, nearby, trying, sky, drying
  • Tricky word: kingdom

Math:

•  Addition and Subtraction with regrouping

Social Studies: 

• Civil Rights Heroes
• Famous African Americans

Dates to Remember:

• Friday, February 13 – Valentine Party from 1:50-2:45

• Monday, February 16 – Students report to school

• Tuesday, February 17 – Read-a-thon begins