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Our 2nd Grade
Classroom News
Friday, January 27th, 2017
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 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