Ask your 2nd Grader:

• Why Do Leaves Change Colors ? (There is less sunlight.  The weather gets cooler.  The tree stops producing sugar.)
• What is chlorophyll ? (the natural green pigment in the leaf)
• What is the purpose of a conclusion in an informative paragraph? (It comes at the end of the paragraph and it reinforces the topic sentence/essential idea)
• How many tens are in the number 726? (2 tens)  What is the value of the underlined #?  384? 80
• What number does 3 hundreds 23 tens and 16 ones make? (536)
• What do quotation marks in a story tell you?  (someone is speaking/talking)

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: 
    • Describe the structure of Sky Tree by interpreting specific references to seasons
    • Analyze how the author of Sky Tree uses varied sentence structure.
    • Determine the central message of Sky Tree.
    • Plan and draft an informative paragraph about how Sky Tree shows the cycle of seasons.
    • Rehearse an informative paragraph.

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • Sound/Spelling: /or/ (ex. for); /ar/ (car); /er/ (dinner); review /oi/ (soil); /ea/ (mean); /ow/ (owl); /oo/ (pool); u_e (huge); /ou/ (out)
  • Read tricky words –  their
  • Contractions; two syllable words; quotation marks; regular and irregular past, present, and future tense verbs; inflectional endings and suffixes -ed and -ing; antonyms
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader, Bedtime Tales
  • Spelling Words: it is = it’s’ that is = that’s; she is = she’s; is not = isn’t; are not = aren’t; was not = wasn’t, I will = I’ll; you will = you’ll; she will = she’ll  tricky word: there 

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 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
• October 20 – School Resumes

Reminders:

• 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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