Dear 2nd Grade Students and Families,

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

Specials:

1. Today’s special is P.E.  Check out Coach Sadie’s blog for some ideas to help you stay physically active: https://leverettpe.edublogs.org/category/second-grade/.

Reading:

1. Answer some questions to continue contrasting The Three Little Pigs and The Three Little Pigs: The Wolf’s Story: Questions About 2 Versions of the Three Little Pigs Story.  Check out last Tuesday’s post (April 24) for a copy of the Three Little Pigs to reread, if needed.  Use today’s work to help you THINK about the answer to this question: Do you think the stories are the same story told from different perspectives (the pigs’ perspective or the wolf’s perspective), or do you think the stories are different enough to be considered two different stories?  We will discuss the question during our next class meeting.
2. Read a good fit book for 20 minutes.

Writing:

1. Revise your fairy tale to add descriptive language, including vivid adjectives.  Edit your fairy tale to find and fix errors with spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.  Here are edition and revision checklists that might help: Revision_Editing Checklists–Fairy Tale (1).

Math:

1. Complete this May calendar by adding the days of the month: Super Teacher Worksheets–May Calendar.  May 1 is today, so write the number 1 (with small handwriting) in the top left corner of the first box under the word Friday.  Continue filling in all the days of the month.  May has 31 days, and you can add an extra square for Sunday, May 31, if you’d like.  
2. Then for each weekday (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday), write a 2-digit addition or subtraction problem in the box.  For example, on Friday, May 1, you might write 45-27 (a 2-digit subtraction problem) or 45+27 (a 2-digit addition problem).  Both numbers in each problem should be 2-digits.  Make sure to write different problems on each day.
3. One job you have during the month of May is to solve the problem of the day each weekday.  So, today, you’ll solve the addition or subtraction problem you wrote in the May 1 box.
4. Go on Symphony Math for 20 minutes, if you have time.

Social Studies and Science:

1. Finish yesterday’s family member interview assignment: Interview an adult family member to learn more about the paid and unpaid work they’ve done in their life.  Here is an interview sheet with suggested questions and spaces to write your family member’s answers: Family Member Interview–All About Work.  You may think of other questions to ask during the interview too.