Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Our 2^nd grade readers continue developing ideas about characters!  They are learning to recognize that characters are not just one way by noticing how characters act in different ways in different settings and how characters act in different ways with other characters. They are also continuing to learn how to support their ideas about characters with evidence from the text.
• In writing, students continue to write personal narratives. They are learning to use dialogue and illustrations to elaborate important parts of their small moment stories. Students are developing independence with moving through all parts of the writing process from thinking of an idea, planning their story (across their fingers or touching and telling on each page of their booklet), sketching their story, and writing words.

Home/School Connection

Supporting Your Child with Reading at Home

Providing choice is a wonderful way to support your child with reading at home.  When students have  choices about what they read, how they read, and the time they read, it increases their motivation to read and it helps them make decisions about themselves as readers. Your child may choose to reread a favorite book 5 days in a row, only read the pictures some days, read a graphic novel,  read something that is too easy, read under the covers, read on a device, or ask you to read to them. All of these choices and experiences are helping your child develop as a reader.

Math

What are we learning?

• We will be completing our second unit.
• We will be starting the measurement unit where we will learn about estimating the length to the nearest inch and weight to the nearest pound.

Home/School Connection

• Go on a scavenger hunt finding items of similar length, weight, or height!

Science

What are we learning?

• Students are learning that plants and animals prepare for the winter months. 
• Leaves are changing color and fall.
• Animals eat while there is plenty of food. Some animals stash food for the winter months.
• Some animals migrate or hibernate.

Home/School Connection

• Take a nature walk and observe all the animals eating, collecting food, or migrating. Notice the leaves falling. Observe the evergreens, they do not shed their leaves or needles.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• We will be completing our second unit.
• Students will use maps and globes of the world and the United States to locate the equator, Prime Meridian and the four hemispheres.
• Students will locate major rivers, mountain ranges, lakes, and other physical features in the United States.

Home/School Connection

• Continue exploring the world and United States map at home (online map works too) and locate the 7 continents, 5 oceans and the equator.

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!