1. 2nd Grade News Ms. Mauer Homework Week of November 26, 2018
A Peek at What We Are Learning This Week
Reading & Writing- “Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday” is our anchor text. “A Chair for My Mother” is our supporting text. Some of the skills the students will touch on include character analysis, story sequence and structure. Help your child make inferences about character’s thoughts and feelings using picture clues in stories as well as reactions to events and other characters. Our writing focus will be on a narrative from a different character’s point of view.
Language, Phonics & Spelling- The students will work with r controlled vowels a and o. (ar, or, oar, and ore words) Our language skills will work on expanding sentences using adjectives and adverbs as well as identifying subjects and verbs in sentences.
Math- The students will begin working with sums and differences within The students will build upon their understanding of the base ten system and their prior knowledge of place value strategies. They will learn some new strategies to record their mental math and to show change in numbers as they work with them.
Science- We will begin our unit on Louisiana bodies of water as well as the relationship and effects animals and their habitats have on each other.
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What’s Happening
At Mandeville Elementary
November 30 - Relay Recess
December 4- Ms. Mauer’s class to Gift Shop
1:15-1:45
December 4 – Winter Concert
December 6 – Compassion Awards at Morning Meeting
December 10 – Kind Kids Club
Vocabulary – Synonyms & Antonyms
Coins-(s)money, payment, cash (a) dollar, bill
Bargain – (s)deal, sale, negotiation (a) rip-off, expensive
Savings – (s) nest egg, keep (a) spend, lose
Tulips - (s) flowers
Block – (s) street, square
Spoiled – (s) rotten, ruined, wasted (a) fixed, new
Charcoal – (s) dust, soot, cinders
Boost – (s) lift, rise (a) lower
Exchanged – (s) traded, swapped, changed (a) kept
Homework
Math-sheet
Read the fluency passage daily
Review vocabulary nightly.