Dear 2nd Grade Students and Families,

I look forward to seeing many of you at 3:00 for our virtual class meeting.  As always, I will send out an email with the link around 2:40 this afternoon.  We will share, and I will read aloud a book about animals to fit with our learning focus for the week.

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. Read another book about animals–either animals in river habitats or animals in deep ocean habitats (Science A-Z–Animals of the Rivers–K or Science A-Z–Animals of the Deep Ocean–J).
2. Go on Lexia for 20 minutes.

Writing:

1. Today, you’ll use a new online resource to learn more about the animal you’re researching.  To use this resource, click on the following link (https://sites.google.com/leverettschool.org/leslibrary/home-learning-resources/science-social-studies?authuser=0).  Then choose DK FindOut!  In the upper, left corner, type in the name of your animal in the box “search this site.”  Take notes on the back of the sheet you’ve used all week (Animal Research Notes).
2. This week, our grammar focus is verbs.  Yesterday, you practiced identifying irregular past tense verbs.  TODAY: Choose the irregular past tense verb to complete each sentence (STW–Irregular Verbs–Fill in the Blank).
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 2.  Start at 0, 10, 46, and 1.
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 pages Repeated Addition and Repeated Addition–Both Ways.  Repeated addition is adding the same number again and again.  In the array below, you could add the columns like this: 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 12.  You could also add the rows like this: 4 + 4 + 4 = 12.
3. Play a familiar math game for 20 minutes.

Social Studies and Science:

1. This week, you’ve been learning about how scientists classify animals.  TODAY: Make animal trading cards either using these printable ones or by making ones of your own (Science A-Z–Animal Trading Cards).  If you’re using the printable cards, you only need to print pages with cards you’re interested in printing. Include information about each animal’s habitat, food, movement, and body covering.  Also, include the name of the animal, a picture of the animal, and whether the animal is a mammal, amphibian, reptile, bird, fish, or invertebrate of some kind.