Ask your 2nd Grader:
What does frontier mean?
Who was John Chapman?
What is the life lesson we can learn from Johnny Appleseed?
What is the proper noun for store, man, state?
What is the past tense of see, sat, stop?
Show me how to solve this word problem. . .Robbie set a goal to read more books in 2026. If Robbie read 24 books in week 1, 33 books in week 2, and 40 in week 3, how many books did Robbie read in three weeks?

What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:

 ELA (English Language Arts):
Wit and Wisdom Module 2: The American West
Essential Question: What was life like in the West for early Americans?
Focusing Question: How do different authors tell the story of John Henry’s life?
Text: John Henry: An American Legend by Ezra Jack Keats.
Text: John Henry by Julius Lester
Learning Goals:
Identify and discuss story elements in each story.
Identify similarities and differences between the two versions of the John Henry stories.
Combine simple sentences into compound sentences using conjunctions.
Write an informative paragraph to explain how one legendary person is different from real-life pioneers.

Tennessee Foundational Skills: 
Read and answer questions about key details in the student reader, The Job Hunt.
Wrap up Unit 4
Grammar: Proper Nouns; plurals; verb to be (am, is, are, was, were)
Our spelling words for next week (Jan.12-16) are a review of all the spelling features we have covered in Unit 4.
Spelling Words: spoon, straw, soil, employ, star, worn, letter, third, burger, frown, pillow, athlete, queen, create, really
No Tricky Word

Math:
Unit 7: Addition and Subtraction Problem Solving

Social Studies: 
The American West

Dates to Remember:
Jan. 15 – Report Cards Issued
Jan. 19 – No School – MLK, Jr. Holiday Observed

Reminders:
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