Curriculum

Watt are we learning?

In English Language Arts (ELA) second graders at May Watts are reading books about "Looking Beyond Yourself"

Looking Beyond Yourself challenges students to make thoughtful decisions when faced with conflict, understanding that it is not always easy to know the right thing to do.

We are finishing up writing a reptile research paper. The students are learning how to write paragraphs, take notes and restate what they have researched in their own words. We are working with an amazing book called Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson. Here is a link to hear the author reading this story. Each Kindness read by author

In Word Study during the month of September your child will be working on the following concepts:

• Consonant clusters: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr
• Word examples: brick, crack, drip, fresh, frog, grip, prize, truck
• Compound words: two words that are put together.
• Word examples: backyard, afternoon, classroom
• Prefixes: words with un- and re- added to the beginning of the word.
• Word examples: unkind, uneven, recycle, rebuild

High Frequency Words (HFW) for this quarter include:

carry, said, game, able, stay, walk, last, each, dark, think, why, place, over, name, work, teacher, fish, begin, air, today, where, must, new, part, time, very, feel, little, rain, under, sky, city, just, does, start, week, door, any, both

In Math second graders at May Watts are working measuring, comparing measurements and the metric system.

In this 12-day Grade 2 module, students engage in activities designed to deepen their conceptual understanding of measurement and to relate addition and subtraction to length. Their work in Module 2 is exclusively with metric units in order to support place value concepts. Customary units are introduced in Module 7.

PARENT TIP SHEET for module 2