A Look Ahead to What We Will Be Doing in December in 2nd Grade…
Writing
Literacy, Language, and Vocabulary
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Literary Text: Traditional stories, ask and answer questions,
recounting stories, characters’ response to events and challenges,
recount key details
Informational Text: Ask and answer questions, how reasons
support author’s points main topic, meaning of words/phrases,
clarifying images, text features, text’s main purpose
Vocabulary: References, pre-fixes, root words, and context clues
Language: Capitalization, formal/ informal English usage, spelling
patterns, sight words, complete sentences with details, past tense
of irregular verbs
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Narrative: ideas, organization, sequence of events, details,
temporal words, answer a question, elaboration, answer a question,
organization- closure, and consult reference materials for spelling.
Language: past tense of irregular verbs expand and rearrange
sentences
Math
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Addition within 100 (two 2-digit numbers): concrete models,
drawings, number lines, place value strategies Mental strategies:
addition and subtraction within 20, written methods
Subtraction within 100 (2-digit from a 2-digit number without
decomposing 10), concrete models, drawings, number lines, place
value strategies
Addition and subtraction situations within 100
Money: Coins and bills, addition and subtraction situations
involving money (within 100), and skip-counting by 5’s
To learn more about the curriculum—
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/2.0/
IMPORTANT DATES:
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NO SCHOOL from Thursday, December 24 – Friday, January 1st
(Winter Break and New Year’s).
Social Studies, Science, and Health
Social Studies/Health:
o Ways people meet human needs
o Ways people pass on traditions and customs
o Geographic characteristics that guide human choice
o Customs and traditions and how they change
Science:
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Design an object made of parts
Description of an object made of parts
Describe minute objects
Description of minute feature of objects