March 17-21

Reading

This week students will recognize different purposes of media. They will use their comprehension skills to analyze how words, graphics, images, and sounds work together in various forms to impact meaning. Students will have the opportunity to explore newspapers, magazine articles, commercials, etc.

Required supplies: Please bring a cereal box stuffed with newspaper and covered with white paper for a fun activity- due March 17th

Writing

This week we will work on the parts of a friendly letter.  We will learn about the date, greeting, body, and closing.  We’ll also be able to recognize parts of a letter by reading examples.  We’ll discuss the purpose of friendly letters and who we could write a letter to.  We’ll end the week by creating a “letter doll” and brainstorming a first draft in writer’s workshop.

Spelling

We will practice taking the singular form of a word and making it plural.  Our words will end with -y, -f, -lf, fe, rf.  We will practice throughout the week and check for understanding on Friday.  

Math

We are getting in shape this week with a new unit on geometry! We are beginning with 2D shapes or plane shapes before moving into 3D shapes. We will learn some new vocabulary, such as edge, face, and vertex. Through some fun Star Wars activities, second grade will be in perfect shape in no time!

Science:

This will be a review week of weather and the water cycle.  We’ll begin our week with a fun experiment for making clouds. We will do an interactive virtual investigation, where we’ll move through the water cycle and see how weather conditions are connected.  Our sense of humor will get a laugh as students write a Wacky Water Mad Lib and share with their classmates.  Going on a trip and don’t know what to pack?  Well, not anymore because we’re doing a fun packing for the weather activity.  Students will imagine they are a weather reporter for a television station that will travel to three different locations to record live weather reports. Students will get to pretend to pack a suitcase for each of their trips.  At the end of the week we will review with a jeopardy challenge and then assess on Friday, March 21.

Reminders

• Life Journals due Friday
• Spelling check on Friday
• Library day is Wednesday
• Early Release Day: March 19