Dear 2nd Grade Students and Families,
I really enjoy making food with and for my family. Here’s a picture of a recent meal. I made the tofu scramble, and Otto made the blueberry pancakes. It all tasted delicious! What’s a meal you enjoy? Is there anything that you are able to cook on your own yet?
Specials:
- Today’s special is library. Ms. River’s recommends that you spend some extra time today curled up reading a good book. I recently discovered a new author I enjoy, and I am eagerly reading all of their books.
Reading:
- Use the text Animals, Animals (Science A-Z–Animals, Animals–L). Respond to these multiple choice and short answer questions to show your comprehension (Science A-Z–Animals, Animals–L Book Quiz). If you read the less challenging version of the text, respond to these questions instead (Science A-Z–Animals, Animals–H Book Quiz).
- Read a good fit book for 20 minutes.
Writing:
- Use PebbleGo to learn more about the animal you’ve chosen to research. TODAY: Take notes about the animal’s life cycle and any fun facts (Animal Research Notes).
- This week, our grammar focus is verbs. So far, you’ve practiced with regular past tense verbs–verbs that you make past tense by adding the -ed ending. Some verbs are irregular verbs. Instead of adding -ed, you change the spelling of the verb to make it past tense. Here are some examples: know–knew/think–thought/go–went/teach–taught. Practice identifying irregular past tense verbs by matching the present tense of each verb with its past tense form (STW–Irregular Verbs–Past Tense Verb Match).
- OPTIONAL : Continue practicing proper keyboarding skills using the website you used in technology (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr).
Math:
- Skip count by 5. Start at 0, 10, 25, 100, and 125.
- 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 both pages of Making Arrays.
- Go on Symphony Math for 20 minutes.
Social Studies and Science:
- On Monday and Tuesday, you watched some introductory videos, answered some discussion questions, and practiced grouping, or classifying, animals based on certain similarities (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.” Click the arrow until you get to step 9 of 15. Finish the activity. Use these Challenge Cards for today’s work (Mystery Science–Challenge Cards).