A Look Ahead to What We Will Be Doing in 2nd Grade in March…
Writing
Reading
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Informational Text: series of ideas or concepts, meanings of words
and phrases, and clarifying images.
Vocabulary: adjectives, adverbs, context clues, compound words,
shades of meaning, real life connections, prefixes, and root words.
Literary Text: rhythm and meaning, character/setting/plot,
character’s point of view, ask and answer questions, characters’
response to events and challenges, story structure,
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Opinion: ideas, development, state an opinion about a book,
supply reasons that support the opinion, sentence fluency-word
choice, linking words, commas in a greeting and closing, expand
and rearrange sentences, provide a conclusion statement for the
book review.
Language: adjectives, adverbs, apostrophe, and formal/informal
English usage.
Math
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Linear measurement: estimation – (inches, feet, centimeters,
meters) addition and subtraction word problems.
Time on analog and digital clocks
Partitioning shapes (circles, rectangles) halves, thirds, and fourths,
and arrays: partitioning rectangles, and repeated addition
Social Studies and Science
Social Studies:
o Production process: natural, capital, and human
resources, goods and services, markets and how they
work, economic decision making, and making informed
decisions.
Science:
To learn more about the curriculum—
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/2.0/
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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Thursday, March 24th No School for students
Friday, March 25th – Friday, April 1st Spring Break: No
School for students and teachers.
Description of observable properties of stars, Moon
observations over time, and plant observations over time.
Survival of plants and animals in familiar and unfamiliar
habitats
Plants and animal life cycles