Dear 2nd Grade Students and Families,

I hope you enjoyed the weekend!  Today’s forecast calls for heavy rain and wind.  It’s the perfect day to stay indoors and curl up with a good book.

Here are your assignments for today.  Click on the underlined links to open each assignment.

Reading:

1. Read the book Living and Nonliving Things.  You will use this book for other assignments later this week.  Choose the version that’s the best fit for you.  For most of you, this version will be a good fit: Reading A-Z–Living and Nonliving Things–more of a challenge.  For some of you, one of these  versions will be a better fit: Reading A-Z–Living and Nonliving Things or Reading A-Z–Living and Nonliving Things–less of a challenge.  A good fit book is a book you can read with understanding on your own, even if you need to use strategies to figure out some of the words.
2. Read a good fit FICTION book of your choice for 20 minutes.

Writing:

1. Before the school closure, we worked on writing letters expressing our opinions about the fiction books we read together.  Think about the FICTION book you are reading now or one you finished recently.  Write an opinion letter about one of the characters in the book.  You may use this paper to help you draft your letter: Opinion Letter Template–character.  To help refresh your memory of the letters we wrote in class, here are a couple of examples: Opinion Letter Examples.

Math:

1. Complete the Math Challenge Worksheet–April 13.
2. Play a familiar math game -OR- go on Symphony Math or Prodigy for 20 minutes.

Social Studies and Science:

1. Since you read about living and nonliving things today, I thought you might enjoy this Mystery Science video.  It’s about an animal that some of you are quite fond of.  https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/unicorns?code=1c33391421483694d6ab186c19eaca37
2. Continue working on the My Observation Notebook assignment to track the changes in a plant you found near your house.