Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What does point of view mean?
• What does it mean to write in first person?
• What is an exploded moment? 
• What does irritated mean?
• What is data?
• What is a pictograph?
• When making a graph, what are some items you must include on your graph? (title/heading, key/legend, categories or choices, the data)

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: How did the Mendez family respond to injustice?
  • Text: Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Learning Goals:
    • Ask and Answer questions about Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
    • Use the meaning of known words to predict the meaning of unknown compound words.
    • Orally recount the setting, characters, and problem from the text, Separate is Never Equal.
    • Explain the connections between the beginning and the ending.
    • Write an exploded moment narrative that describes Sylvia Mendez’s thoughts, feelings, actions, and have a sense of closure.

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:  
  • Unit 5
  • Read and answer questions from our decodable reader, Sir Gus
  • Vocabulary development:  review verbs; verb tense
  • Sounds and spelling:  schwa sound (le/el); the different sounds of the letter ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘o’; tricky spelling ‘o-e’ and ‘ou’
  • Spelling Words: turtle, bundle, pickle, shuffle, cattle, label, angel, gravel, fiction, education, inspection, motion, question
  • Tricky word: schwa

Math:

•  Data Analysis

Social Studies: 

• Civil Rights Heroes
• Laws; Branches of Government

Dates to Remember:

• March 26 – Report Cards will come home.
• Monday, March 30 – Field trip to the TN State Capital – Please return the permission form and make your payment at SchoolCashOnline.com .

ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK TODAY!

The yearbook committee has to turn in a final count to production soon!

The last day to place an order will be Friday, March 27th. If you are not sure if you have already placed an order, please contact Mrs. Tanner at amy.tanner@mnps.org.

To place your order visit yearbookordercenter.com  and use code 26776.

Books will be delivered to your child’s classroom in mid-May. 

You do not want to miss this amazing book of memories!