Dear 2nd Grade Students and Families,

I can’t wait to see all of you today during our 3:00 meeting!  I will send an email with our Google Meet link at 2:40.  Be prepared to tell your peers which animal you will be researching this week and ONE thing you’ve already learned about that animal.  We will start by sharing about our animal research.  Then Ms. Renauld will lead you in a song.  After that, Marla will lead an art activity.  We will end by discussing one thing you feel you’ve gotten better at this year in 2nd grade.

Specials:

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

Reading:

1. Reread the text Animals, Animals (Science A-Z–Animals, Animals–L).  Then discuss your answers to these questions with an adult (Science A-Z–Animals, Animals–Discussion Questions).  Go back to the text to find specific evidence to support your answers.  If you would prefer, you may write down your answers on a separate sheet of paper instead of discussing your ideas with an adult. 
2. Go on Lexia for 20 minutes.

Writing:

1. Use PebbleGo to learn more about the animal you’ve chosen to research.  TODAY: Take notes about the animal’s body, habitat, and food (Animal Research Notes).
2. This week, our grammar focus is verbs.  As you’ve learned this year, regular action verbs can be made past tense by adding on the ending -ed.  If an action verb ends in a consonant-y (like the word carry), you changed the y to an i before adding -ed.  TODAY: Practice adding -ed to verbs ending in y (STW–Adding -ed to Verbs Ending in y).
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 100.  Start at 0, 30, 146, 200, and 450.
2. This week, your assignments will all come from the same packet (https://www.tptschoolaccess.com/student-view/Njg5MTA4NDA2ODc0NDIwMjAtMDUtMTRUMjA6NTc6NDYuMjc5Wg==).  The focus of the packet is arrays–arrangements of objects into rows and columns.  Rows go across, and columns go down.  TODAY: Do the Describe Arrays–Row by Column and Matching Arrays pages.
3. Play a familiar math game for 20 minutes.  For example, you might play Addition Top-It (Addition Top-It Rules).

Social Studies and Science:

1. Yesterday, you watched some introductory videos and answered some discussion questions to begin thinking about animal classification (https://mysteryscience.com/biodiversity/mystery-1/biodiversity-classification/174?code=NDEwMDY3MDQ&t=student).  TODAY: Click on the clink above.  Then click on “Hands-on Activity.”  Follow along with the activity until you have sorted and resorted the animal cards into the 4 groups Doug discusses.  Use these Animal Cards for today’s work (Mystery Science–Animal Cards).  STOP when you get to activity step 9 of 15–the Challenge Cards.