2nd Grade Newsletter

March 7, 2022

In our realistic fiction unit students are learning to:

Consider the lessons characters are learning by thinking about how characters change and the mistakes they make in stories
Reflect on their own experiences and make connections with the problems, actions, and lessons learned by characters

Students are also learning to write realistic fiction stories! They are learning to:

Get ideas for realistic fiction stories by thinking about problems that happened to them or problems they notice in realistic fiction books
Invent realistic fiction characters that are like themselves or people they know
Plan important parts of their story using a story mountain
Include character’s thoughts, feelings, dialogue, and actions

Home/School Connection

Encourage your child to talk about the characters in stories they read! You may ask:

Who is your favorite character? Why?

What would you have done if you were the character?

Why do you think the character______________?

What lesson did the character learn?

How did the character’s feelings change?

We will be revisiting previous skills of addition and subtraction in unit 7!
- We will continue to work on estimating sums and differences
- using various methods to solve a problem.
- how to solve single-step and two step problems involving addition and subtraction.

We have begun our lessons on Force and Motion.
Students will explore how direct contact forces and noncontact forces cause motion, which can solve problems and be useful in everyday lives.
-students will be skilled at explaining how forces can cause an object to change its motion.
-students will differentiate between contact and noncontact forces causing motion.
-students will identify examples of the effect of gravity causing motion.
-students will investigate the effect of magnetism on the motion of other magnets or metal objects.