Wednesday, May 20, 2020

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:

  1. 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:

  1. 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).
  2. Read a good fit book 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 life cycle and any fun facts (Animal Research Notes).
  2. 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).
  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 5.  Start at 0, 10, 25, 100, and 125.
  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 both pages of Making Arrays.
  3. Go on Symphony Math for 20 minutes.

Social Studies and Science:

  1. 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).

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