Dear 2nd Grade Students and Families,

Did you all enjoyed a fun and relaxing weekend?  What did you do?  I had a video chat with a dear friend, took several walks, cleaned my house, and did some work in my yard.

Specials:

1. Today’s special is music.  Be sure to check out Ms. Renauld’s blog to find great ideas for musical activities you can do at home.  Here’s the link: https://hrenauld.edublogs.org/.

Reading:

1. Read Animals, Animals (Science A-Z–Animals, Animals–L).  If you try to read that text and it is too challenging, try this one (Science A-Z–Animals, Animals–H).
2. Read another good fit book for 20 minutes.

Writing:

1. This week, you’ll research an animal.  Your first step is to go on PebbleGo to find an animal you would like to learn more about (LES Homepage–For Students–PebbleGo–Animals).  Click on either Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Insects & Spiders, Invertebrates, Mammals, OR Reptiles. Keep clicking until you’ve found ONE animal that you want to learn about.  TODAY: Read about the animal you’ve chosen.  Write the name of the animal on this sheet (Animal Research Notes).  You will use this sheet to take notes for the rest of the week.
2. This week, our grammar focus is verbs.  A verb is a part of speech that tells about an action or a state of being.  Present tense verbs name an action happening now, like walk, laugh, jump, and listen.  Past tense verbs name an action that already happened, like walked, laughed, jumped, and listened.  Often, to make a present tense verb into a past tense verb, you add the ending -ed.  TODAY: Practice identifying present and past tense regular verbs (STW–Regular Verbs–Present and Past Tense).
3. OPTIONAL : Continue practicing proper keyboarding skills using the website you used in technology (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr).

Math:

1. Skip count by 10.  Start at 0, 30, 36, 75, and 140.  
2. This week, your assignments will all come from the same packet (https://www.tptschoolaccess.com/student-view/Njg5MTA4NDA2ODc0NDIwMjAtMDUtMTRUMjA6NTc6NDYuMjc5Wg==), and they will all focus on preparing you to thinking about multiplication next year.  The focus of the packet is arrays–arrangements of objects into rows and columns.  Rows go across, and columns go down.  TODAY: Do the Columns and Rows and Describe Arrays pages.
3. Go on Symphony Math for 20 minutes.

Social Studies and Science:

1. This week, you’re reading about and researching animals.  In order to understand animals (and other living things) better, scientists organize, or classify, animals based on their similarities.  Here is an activity to help you start thinking about how animals are organized, or classified, based on their traits (https://mysteryscience.com/biodiversity/mystery-1/biodiversity-classification/174?code=NDEwMDY3MDQ&t=student).  Your job today is to watch several videos and pause to think about some discussion questions.  Try to discuss the questions with an adult if you are able to.  STOP when you get to the video that says “Activity.”