2nd Grade News

September 28, 2016

Academic
Vocabulary

Dear 2nd Grade Families,

I hope youre having a great evening. Its
hard to believe September is nearly over! Tomorrow night
from 5:35-5:45 is Curriculum Night! Please keep in mind this
time is reserved to go over the curriculum and to select a
homework option that works best for your family. Personal
concerns such as behavior or your childs academic standing
will be discussed during conferences in October. I look
forward to seeing you.

Permission slips for our field trip were sent home
yesterday. If for some reason it did not make it home please
let me know and I can send home another copy.

In STEM were learning about matter and properties of
change in preparation to create something that will keep
popsicles from melting over a period of time. Next week we
will need to bring in items to create our invention as well as a
few other items.

TMSA Staff likes to do home visits just to get better
acquainted with our families. If you would like for the 2nd
grade team to visit and get to know your family better we are
available on Thursdays at 6PM. Please feel free to sign-up on
our Sign-Up Genius Link. Have a wonderful evening and if
you have any questions or concerns please dont hesitate to
ask.

Upcoming Events
9/29 Curriculum Night

10/10 Columbus Day

(No School)

10/11 Picture Day

10/14 Dress Down

Help Wanted!
We are still in need of fine point dry erase markers. Any
donations are appreciated!
Permission slips for our first field trip were sent home with
your child yesterday. If youre interested in being a
chaperone please email me for more information.

expanded form

value

digit

base 10

plot

summarize

who, what, where, when,

why, how

declarative sentence

interrogative sentence

narrative

editing

topic sentence

supporting details

states of matter

classify

properties

insulation

constitution

legislative branch

judicial branch

executive branch

What Were Learning

This week in reading we are focusing on the plot of a story and how to summarize the
important events of a story we read. We will still practice identifying the subject and
predicate of a complete sentence and have began learning about imperative and
exclamatory sentences. In writing we are working on a rough draft, peer editing skills and
publishing. In math we will be working on different ways to decompose a number by place
value, skip counting by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s between 100-1000, and comparing two and
three-digit numbers. In social studies we have been researching a portion of our government
unit (the 3 branches of the government, the constitution, and what it means to be a good
citizen) and in Technology will be preparing content for our poster projects to present next
Tuesday. In science weve been discussing what it means to be an inventor, the design
process and learning about matter and properties of change in preparation to create
something that will keep popsicles from melting over a period of time.

Essential Questions
What might cause a story character to change?
Where/ when does this story take place?
What happened in the beginning of a story? middle? end?
What is the subject/predicate of a given sentence?
The time is .. What time would it be one hour later/one hour ago?
Explain how you know whether a number is even or odd?
(given addition number sentence) What subtraction problem would be related to
the addition number sentence I gave you?
What is the value of___ tens (ie. 15 tens= 150, 82 tens=820, 976 tens= 9,760,)
How many different ways can (2-digit number) be expressed?
(ie. 32= 3 tens & 2 ones, 2 tens & 12 ones, 1 ten 22 ones, 0 tens 32 ones)
What is an engineer?
What is an inventor?
What invention could you create for a problem you may have?