Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What genre is the book Why Do Leaves Change Colors ? (nonfiction)
• What is the meaning of absorb? (to soak up)
• What is one thing that happens to trees in the winter? (They rest. They lose all their leaves so they can survive winter.)
• How do you show the number 513 in expanded form, word form and standard form? 
• (500 +10 +3/ five hundred thirteen/513)
• What is the baseword of shrugged? (shrug)  When you added -ed to the word pat, what do you have to do? (double the t and add -ed)
• What region of the United States do we live in?  (Southeast region)
• What region are the Great Lakes in?  (The Great Plains Region)

What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:

 ELA (English Language Arts):

• Wit and Wisdom Module 1: A Season of Change
  • Essential Question: How does change impact people and nature?
  • Learning Goals: 
    • Determine connections between key terms and topics.
    • Draft and rehearse an informative paragraph.
    • Combine two sets of simple sentences into compound sentences
    • Publish an informative paragraph about the impact of weather on trees in the fall
    • Notice and Wonder the impact of color in Sky Tree paintings.

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • Sound/Spelling: ‘ow’ /ou/ (now); ‘ou’ /ou/ (shout); ‘oi’ /oi/ (soil); ‘oy’ /oi/ (toy); ‘er’ /er/ her;
  • Read tricky words – are, were, some, they, their
  • Contractions; two syllable words; quotation marks; regular and irregular past, present, and future tense verbs; inflectional endings and suffixes -ed and -ing
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader, Bedtime Tales
  • Spelling Words: smiling, racing, hoping, baking, inviting, confusing, tasting, competing, hopping   tricky word: were

Math:

• Representing Numbers to 1,000

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

• Sound and Light

Dates to Remember:

• September 25 – 2nd Grade Music Program (evening performance / 5:30)
• September 26 – House Meeting (students wear House/Navigator shirts)
• September 26 – Block Party after school
• October 7 –Stockpile Day/Students do not report
• October 8 – Songs Under The Stars
• October 8 – Picture day for class pictures and retakes.
• October 10 – Stockpile Day/Students do not report
• October 13-17: Fall Break

Reminders:

• Birthday Celebrations:  If you send a treat in for the class for your child’s birthday, please remember the treat should be nut free.  No cupcakes, please.
• 2nd Grade Music Performance Information:
  • Date: Thursday, September 25th
  • Location: PPE Gym
  • Concert Time: 5:30 PM
  • Student Arrival Time: 5:00 PM
  • What to wear: Black/ Navy Pants and House/Navigator Shirt
• Join us on October 8th for a night of songs & stories from Grammy Award winning artists Maddie & Tae, Brad Tursi, Jaren Johnston & Ryan Hurd . Visit the link below

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