Dear 2nd Grade Students and Families,

Here are your assignments for today.  Click on the underlined links to open each assignment.  If you do not have a printer, you can read the information on the screen and write down your answers on a sheet of paper.

Reading:

1. Use the informational text that you read yesterday to answer some questions.  You may share your ideas with an adult, or you may write your ideas down on a piece of paper.  Here is a link to the Insect Life Cycle text: Reading A-Z–Insect Life Cycle–book.  Here is a link to the questions: Reading A-Z–Insect Life Cycle–discussion questions.
2. If you read Reading A-Z–The Butterfly Life Cycle–book, here are the questions: Reading A-Z–The Butterfly Life Cycle–discussion questions.
3. Read a good fit book -OR- go on Lexia for 20 minutes.

Writing:

1. Use yesterday’s planning sheet (Insect Life Cycle Paragraph–Planning Sheet) to help you write a paragraph about insects that have a 4-stage life cycle.  Be sure to indent your paragraph, to capitalize the beginning of each sentence, and to put a period at the end of each sentence.  Here is some Fundations writing paper to use to write your paragraph: Fundations Writing Paper.

Math:

1. Complete the Math Challenge Worksheet–April 7.
2. Play Salute using a regular deck of cards with the 2-10 cards and aces as ones (Salute! Rules) -OR- go on Symphony Math for 20 minutes.

Social Studies and Science:

1. From the LES homepage, go to PebbleGo.  Click on SOCIAL STUDIES.  Then click on CONTINENTS.  Choose a continent to read about.  You will take some notes about this continent tomorrow.
2. If you didn’t work on it yesterday, continue working on the My Observation Notebook assignment to track the changes in a plant you’ve found near your house.