Dear 2nd Grade Students and Families,

I hope you enjoyed the long weekend!  I look forward to seeing all of you today during our 3:00 meeting.  I will send an email with our Google Meet link at 2:40.  Here is a picture of my sweet kitty Pfogg.  He hasn’t joined our class meeting yet, but maybe he will soon.

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. Read the text Keb Needs a Home (RazPlus–Keb Needs a Home–book).  
2. Go on Lexia for 20 minutes.

Writing:

1. Last week, you researched an animal using PebbleGo and DK FindOut.  This week, you will write an informational book about that animal.  Your book will include information about the animal’s appearance, movement, habitat, food, and life cycle.  You will also identify whether the animal is a mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or a kind of invertebrate.  Get a start on your book today.  Use this template to make sure you include all of the important information (Information Animal Book Template).  Add drawings of the information you write about in each section of your book.
2. A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea (e.g., teacher, school, pencil, friendship).  An action verb describes an action–something you do (e.g., listen, share, play, learn).  Your job today is to determine whether a given word is being used as a noun or an action verb (STW–Nouns vs. Verbs). 

Math:

1. Practice identifying all of the 10 friends.
2. This week, your assignments will all come from the same packet (https://www.tptschoolaccess.com/student-view/Njg5MTA4NDg2NTEyOTIwMjAtMDUtMTlUMTY6Mjc6NDAuMDY5Wg==).  Across the week, you will only need to print pages 3-9 and 13-15. The packet is about 2-D and 3-D shapes.  This week, we’ll focus on polygons–2-dimensional closed shapes made up of straight lines that meet at vertices.  A vertex (the plural form is vertices) is the point where two sides of a polygon meet–or the corner of the polygon.  As you’ll notice, circles and ovals have no vertices.  Triangles have 3, squares have 4, pentagons have 5, and so on.  Today, start by reviewing page 3 (2-D Shape Sheet).  Then complete pages 4 and 5 (Color by Vertices AND Draw the Vertices).

Social Studies and Science:

1. Migration is movement from place to place.  People have been migrating for a very long time.  People migrate for different reasons.  Some migrate because wars or natural disasters (like earthquakes or hurricanes) have made where they live unsafe.  Others migrate because of poor treatment in their homelands due to their religion or ethnicity or for other reasons.  Some migrate for job opportunities or to continue their education.  Others migrate because of the appeal of a place–like its weather.  Some people choose to migrate.  Others do not.  For example, in the past, many people were forcefully brought to the United States from Africa and enslaved.  This week and next week, we will think about human migration.  We will read stories to learn more about different reasons why people migrate.  If you have time, this 15-minute video read-aloud tells a story of immigration to the United States.