April 25-29, 2016
Marking Period 4 - Week 3
Second Grade Shark Shout
Students will describe
use various
howtext
features
locatesupply
key facts
words andto
phrases
or
information
in or
a text
rhythm
in a story
poem.
efficiently.
Students will choose a topic
and use words and phrases to
describe thoughts and feelings.
Students
ask and answer
questions will
to demonstrate
“wh”
questions
understanding
ofto
key details in
demonstrate
understanding
a text.
of key details in a text.
Students will use words and
phrases to create an image.
Students will ask and answer
Students will use figurative
Students
will use beginning
language (personification
and
dictionaries
and
glossaries
onomatopoeia) to create an to
clarify
image. the meaning of words
and phrases.
Students will identify and
record observable properties
of the moon over time.
(Moon Journal Week #2)
Students will share observable
changes in the growth and
development of Painted Lady
caterpillars.
Students will identify,
sequence, and describe the
stages in the life of a Painted
Lady caterpillar.
HOMEROOM
Report
Cards:
Our
field
trip to
Please spend time
with
Strathmore
Hall
toyour
child reviewing the MP3
learn about the
report card. Have a
orchestra
scheduled
conversation is
about
for
November
18th.and
You
strengths,
weaknesses,
areasreceive
for growth.
Help your
will
information
child set academic and
and sign a permission
behavioral goals for the last
slip
at your
child'
8 weeks
of second
grade.
Third grade is just around
the corner!
Topic: Haiku Poetry
(5-7-5 syllable pattern)
Students will strengthen their
writing by revising and editing
with peers and adults.
Students
will gather
use and
Students will
geographic
tools
to locate
interpret information about
and describe places on
the past from an informational
Earth such as continents,
source or biography.
countries, oceans, the
equator, and north and
Students will gather and
south poles.
interpret information about
the past using
artifacts.
Students
will use
map
elements such as the
Focus: Frederick
Douglass
compass
rose, legend
or
key, and sectors to locate
places.
Students will apply strategies to
solve addition problems within
1,000 which include composing
from ones to tens and/or tens to
hundreds.
Students will apply strategies to
solve subtraction problems within
1,000 which include decomposing
from tens to ones and/or hundreds
to tens.
Students will apply strategies to
mentally add and subtract within
20.
Mark Your Calendars!
There are many events coming
in May.
May 2-6-Staff Appreciation Week
May 11-ESOL Parent Night
May 12-Field Day (K-2)
May 20-Career Day
May 30-Memorial Day-no school
Our mission is clear and the
possibilities are endless!
Upcoming Dates…
April 22------Report Cards come home
April 23------Ben’s Run Celebration
April 26------No School-Primary Elections
April 28------Take your child to Work Day (permission slip must be turned in)
April 28------Staff/Parent basketball game at Blake High School
April 29------Kindergarten Orientation
Positive Notes…
Our second graders are doing an amazing job of taking
care of the caterpillars. Please ask your child to share the
changes they are seeing in the caterpillar habitats.