Welcome to 2nd grade!  We've had a great start to a new school year!  Monday Memo and take home folders will go home Monday, September 20. 

Look at what we will work on this week (August 20-24)

Math

TEKS:   Number and Operations—2.2.B Use standard, word, and expanded forms to represent numbers up to 1,200 .   2.2 F Name the whole number that corresponds to a specific point on a number line.

We will begin with lesson 1.1.  Students will practice making two digit numbers multiple ways:  with numbers, models, words, expanded notation, and identification of place value.  Students will practice using several games.  Once students have achieved mastery, we will continue to lesson 1.2 in which students work with two digit numbers and number lines.  
 
Religion

Objectives:  State that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary.
Identify Mary as Jesus' mother, the Mother of God.
State Mary as Mother of the Church.
Honor Mary as Mother of the Church.
Explain prayer of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament .

Monday & Tuesday:  We will continue the great work done last week learning about Mary and showing honor for our Blessed Mother.  Students will look at Hail Mary and Hail Holy Queen prayers.  We will discuss their meaning so we better understand as we pray.  

We discussed the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.  When the Blessed Sacrament is available on for Eucharistic Adoration, we will take advantage of this opportunity to be with Jesus.  We will begin this Wednesday if possible.

Thursday & Friday:  We will begin discussing the importance of our classroom as a Christian community.  We will begin with chapter one in Family Life.

Language Arts

TEKS:  6)Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
(A) identify moral lessons as themes in well-known fables, legends, myths, or stories; and
(B) compare different versions of the same story in traditional and contemporary folktales with respect to their characters, settings, and plot.

2) Reading/Beginning Reading Skills/Phonics. Students use the relationships between letters and sounds, spelling patterns, and morphological analysis to decode written English. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts. Students are expected to:
(A) decode multisyllabic words in context and independent of context by applying common letter-sound correspondences including:
(i) single letters (consonants and vowels);

Monday:  Students will take spelling pretest with words with short e sounds.  Challenge list will be given to students who have mastery of original list.  Students will identify elements of folk tales. 

Tuesday:  Students will review folk tale elements.  They will listen to Little Red Riding Hood,  and identify story elements of this folk tale.  Students will take STAR test to show reading level. Students will conference with me individually to set an AR reading goal.

Wednesday:  Students will review elements of folk tales.  They will listen to Lon Po Po, identifying story elements.  Students will use Venn diagram to compare this Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood.  Students will conference with me individually to set an AR reading goal.

Thursday:  Students will read Little Green Riding Hood.   They will compare this story to the other stories read during the week.  Students will select one of the characters in one of the stories and rewrite the story from their perspective.  

Friday:  Students will be given choices of versions of Little Red Riding Hood.  They will share with classmates similarities and differences.  Students will take spelling test.        Social Studies

TEKS: 2.13 B  
Identify characteristics of good citizenship, including truthfulness, justice, equality, respect for oneself and others, responsibility in daily life.  2.14 B  Recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag and the Pledge to the Texas Flag. 2.14 C  Identify selected symbols such as state and national birds and flowers and patriotic symbols such as the U.S. and Texas flags.

Monday:  Students will write a story of a student following one of our class rules.

Tuesday:  Students will read together Studies Weekly week #1, learning about citizenship and applying to our classroom community.

Wednesday & Thursday:  Students will compare American and Texan flag.  They will notice similarities.  We will review the content of the pledges that are said daily.

Friday:  Students will answer written questions to show understanding of material covered this week.  

Science

TEKS:  2.4  Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student uses age-appropriate tools and models.  (A)investigate the natural world. The student is expected to:  collect, record, and compare information using tools, including computers, hand lenses.

Monday:  Students will make their science notebooks.  We will review what scientists do and students will identify themselves as scientists.

Tuesday:   Students will read Week# 1 together. Students will make a list of objects that they would like to test buoyancy.

Wednesday:  Students will identify which field of science they prefer. Using the data, students will make a bar graph. They will write two comparison statements about the results.

Thursday:  Students will conduct experiment, making predictions of what objects will float and sink. Students will record their findings.

Friday:  Students will be given variety of sources to learn additional information about spiders. Students will make posters showing what they learned.

1st Quarter Syllabus


Math

Module 1  Place Value
Number and Operations—2.2.B  Number and Operations—2.2.BUse standard, word, and expanded forms to represent numbers up to 1,200 Mathematical Processes 2.1.D Communicate mathematical ideas and reasoning 2.1.F Analyze mathematical relationships.  
Number and Operations—2.2.E Locate the position of a given whole number on an open number line 2.2.F Name the whole number that corresponds to a specific point on a number line
Number and Operations—2.2.A Use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 1,200 in more than one way as a sum of so many thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones.

Module 2 Size of Numbers
Number and Operations—2.2.B Use standard, word, and expanded forms to represent numbers up to 1,200; 2.2.A Use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 1,200 in more than one way as a sum of so many thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones MATHEMATICAL PROCESSES 2.1.D Communicate mathematical ideas and reasoning.
Number and Operations—2.2.D Use place value to compare and order whole numbers up to 1,200 using comparative language, numbers, and symbols (>, <, or =).
Number and Operations—2.2.E Locate the position of a given whole number on an open number line; 2.2.F Name the whole number that corresponds to a specific point on a number line MATHEMATICAL PROCESSES 2.1.E Create and use representations 2.1.D Communicate mathematical ideas and reasoning

Module 3  Four Digit Numbers
Number and Operations—2.2.A Use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 1,200 in more than one way as a sum of so many thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones MATHEMATICAL PROCESSES 2.1.D Communicate mathematical ideas and reasoning 2.1.E Create and use representations 2.1.G Display, explain, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments.  
Number and Operations—2.2.B Use standard, word, and expanded forms to represent numbers up to 1,200 MATHEMATICAL PROCESSES 2.1.D Communicate mathematical ideas and reasoning 2.1.E Create and use representations
Number and Operations—2.2.D Use place value to compare and order whole numbers up to 1,200 using comparative language, numbers, and symbols (>, <, or =) MATHEMATICAL PROCESSES 2.1.D Communicate mathematical ideas and reasoning 2.1.F Analyze mathematical relationshipsa number that is greater than or less than a given whole number up to 1,200; Also 2.2.D MATHEMATICAL PROCESSES 2.1.C Select tools, technology, and techniques 2.1.E Create and use representations 2.1.F Analyze mathematical relationships.

Science

EARTH-SPACE SCIENCE

It’s Time for Science (TEKS.b.2.A, TEKS.b.2.B, TEKS.b.2.C, TEKS.b.2.D, TEKS.b.2.E, TEKS.b.2.F, TEKS.b.3.A, TEKS.b.3.B, TEKS.b.3.C, TEKS.b.4.A, TEKS.b.5.A)

The World of Science ( TEKS.b.2.A, TEKS.b.2.B, TEKS.b.2.C, TEKS.b.2.D, TEKS.b.2.E, TEKS.b.2.F, TEKS.b.3.A, TEKS.b.3.B, TEKS.b.3.C, TEKS.b.4.A, TEKS.b.4.B)

Science Safety (TEKS.b.1.A, TEKS.b.1.B, TEKS.b.2.A, TEKS.b.2.B, TEKS.b.2.C, TEKS.b.2.D, TEKS.b.2.E, TEKS.b.2.F, TEKS.b.3.A, TEKS.b.3.B, TEKS.b.3.C, TEKS.b.4.A) 

Earth ( TEKS.b.2.A, TEKS.b.2.B, TEKS.b.2.C, TEKS.b.2.D, TEKS.b.2.E, TEKS.b.2.F, TEKS.b.3.A, TEKS.b.3.B, TEKS.b.3.C, TEKS.b.4.A, TEKS.b.5.A, TEKS.b.5.C, TEKS.b.7.A)

Water (TEKS.b.2.A, TEKS.b.2.B, TEKS.b.2.C, TEKS.b.2.D, TEKS.b.2.E, TEKS.b.2.F, TEKS.b.3.A, TEKS.b.3.B, TEKS.b.3.C, TEKS.b.4.A, TEKS.b.5.A, TEKS.b.5.B, TEKS.b.5.C, TEKS.b.7.B)

Weather ( TEKS.b.2.A, TEKS.b.2.B, TEKS.b.2.E, TEKS.b.2.D, TEKS.b.2.C, TEKS.b.2.F, TEKS.b.3.A, TEKS.b.3.B, TEKS.b.3.C, TEKS.b.4.A, TEKS.b.8.A, TEKS.b.8.B) 

Social Studies

Welcome to Second Grade (TEKS 13A, 14A, 14B, 14C, 18A, 18B, 18C, 19A, 19B)

Where is the United States? (TEKS 1B, 6B, 18A, 18B, 18C, 19A, 19B)

Rules and Responsibility (TEKS 13A, 18A, 18B, 18C, 19A, 19B, 20A) 

Good Citizens (TEKS13A, 18A, 18B, 18C, 19A, 19B)

History and Time (TEKS2A, 2B, 2C, 6B, 18A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 19A, 19B)

Technology (TEKS2B, 3A, 3B, 17A, 18A, 18B, 18C, 19A, 19B)
 

We will continue

Here are some of our projects from 2017-2018 school year:
  

You will find classroom news and weekly homework in the Monday Memo which will be in students' take home folders.

Please find below some websites that will be helpful this year.

Website to check on your child's progress with Accelerated Reader:       hosted29.renlearn.com/229065/homeconnect/

Online support for math:  https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/ePC/start.do

Online support for social studies:  https://app.studiesweekly.com/online

Online support for religion: 
https://religion.sadlierconnect.com/login.html



Please contact me with any questions or concerns.  

God bless,