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2nd Grade Monday Minutes
Week of May 9th – 13th
The second grade will be taking the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning from 8:45 – 9:45 am. Please make sure your son/daughter gets a good night’s sleep and eats a healthy breakfast on these days.
Our Week at a Glance looks like this:
Working with Words (spelling) for this week: 10 review words:
rain every hurt said with that’s again really school where
Challenge Review list: diorama multiplication wildlife through sincerely
Reading: National Geographic Article- Pollen
Review test-taking strategies Reading Selection in text: Mice and Beans- strategy: identifying what could happen and what could not happen (reality/fantasy)
Writing: Write final copies of stories (beginning, middle, end); share with class Practice keyboarding skills by typing sentences using spelling words
Handwriting: Writing capital letters in cursive Pages 92, 93 & 94 in book
Math: Place Value Notation for Ten-Thousands, Grouping with parentheses, Unit Review, Progress Check for Unit 10
Science: Soils Unit: Lesson 1 What’s in Your Soil? Lesson 2 Making Compost
Social Studies: Economics: Lesson 1 - Why do people work? Lesson 2 - Our Needs and Wants
Mrs. Laurie Quinn lquinn@neoshoschool.com
2nd Grade Monday Minutes
Week of May 2nd - 6th
We will be starting a science unit on SOILS next week. Please send a ziplock bag with about 2 cups of soil from your garden, woods, yard, or field by next Monday. We still need about 3 dozen redworms from a local bait shop. Please let me know if you would be willing to get the worms for the class. Thanks so much!
Thursday, May 5th - Progress reports will be sent home on an as-needed basis.
Friday, May 6th - Grandparents Day
Our Week at a Glance looks like this:
Working with Words (spelling) for this week: 10 review words:
ride force could went write their outside didn’t shook around
Reading: Continue individual reading fluency assessments; Fiction and nonfiction readings about seeds, flowers, pollen, gardens. Textbook selection: The Ugly Vegetables
Writing: Students write a realistic story with a clear beginning, middle & end.
Handwriting: Pages 89, 90, 91 in book - due Friday
Math: Unit 10 – Writing money amounts using decimal notation. Using a calculator to solve problems with money. Estimating and finding exact costs. Making Change
Science: What makes things move; Forces; Magnets; Machines
Social Studies: Unit Review pages 112-114 in textbook. Start Unit 4: Economics
Mrs. Laurie Quinn lquinn@neoshoschool.com
2nd Grade Monday Minutes
Week of May 31st – June 3rd
Book Report Projects and May Reading Minutes were due today. They will still be accepted tomorrow morning.
May’s incentive activity for those who met the monthly goals is a special snack: Build Your Own Sundae (with the works) !
Practice Math Facts at home: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division!
Our Week at a Glance looks like this: Working with Words (spelling) for this week: 10 review words:
goal drink here into float they’re wanted lucky year under
10 Challenge words: Memorial Day division discovered phases producer consumer vacation June July August
Reading Selection: The Moon by Semour Simon and related leveled readers
Writing: Students continue working on the mini book they wrote: writing, editing, typing, illustrating and publishing. We hope to be ready to share with parents and others by Friday (I’ll keep you posted).
Handwriting: Students work on their own time to finish the handwriting book.
Math: Multiplication facts, turn-around facts, fact families, Unit 11 Progress Check
Science: Finish Soils Unit: How do different soils hold water?, check what’s happened in our compost bags, test our local soils, quiz
Social Studies: Lesson 3 -Goods and Services; Lesson 4- Producers and Consumers
Mrs. Laurie Quinn lquinn@neoshoschool.com
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