Twitter: @ThraneExplorers Our 2nd Grade Classroom News Friday, January 27th, 2017 Email: thranek@hudson.edu Twitter: @ThraneExplorers Upcoming Events Math Date Event 1/27 PTO Movie Night 1/31-2/3 Terra Nova/InView testing 2/3 PTO Pancake Breakfast ticket orders due 2/14 Valentine’s Day and party 2/20 No school: President’s Day 2/21 Right to Read Week book orders due 3/4 PTO Pancake Breakfast 3/7 Parent Technology Night @ HMS 6:30-8:00 Constructing and drawing quadrilaterals Identifying attributes of different shapes: quadrilateral, rhombus, square, rectangle, trapezoid Determining rules and sorting shapes according to attributes Exploring area with pattern blocks: How will the area change when the unit of measure changes? Exploring area with geoboards. For example, “Make a shape that has an area of 6 units using a square as the unit of measure.” Social Studies Masai study: location, climate, shelter, clothing, jobs, transportation, etc. African animal reports Chinese New Year Reminders Writing Scientists learn from experiments and many other sources: books, articles, photographs, websites, videos Self-assessment: setting goals and making plans Cotton ball and ping-pong ball experiments with lab reports Including charts and tables to represent data Comparing experiment results and considering new questions Editing as well as including scientific language Reading Analyzing characters’ points of view Inferring character traits by noticing what they say and do, how they respond to challenges, and through character relationships Finishing character study unit Summarizing and writing reading responses Up next… biographies