2nd GRADE
Lesson for June
Topic: Juneteenth; Culture and Holiday Studies
Objectives: Students will be able to make connections to the characters in the story.
Activity:
Why do we have off from school next Friday?
listen to the story : Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper https://safeshare.tv/x/ss629d44939929b
listen and watch the video about Juneteenth. https://safeshare.tv/x/ss629d3eaa01007
Live Meets During your scheduled class for Virtual Students
Lesson for DECEMBER
- Essential Question: What is Fiction? What is Nonfiction? short video or power point (depending upon internet accessibility)
- Objective: Students will be able to tell the difference between Fiction and Nonfiction materials.
- Activity:
- T will show students two books about Polar Bears. Both are actually Fictional but one has photographs.
- T will ask students how we can tell they are either Fiction on Nonfiction.
- T will ask students how we know this story is Fictional.
- Assessment/Evaluation: Fiction/Nonfiction book sorting activity shared via the LIBRARY Google Classroom or GoGuardian. Students will sort the books by dropping and dragging the book titles into the correct columns for either Fiction or Nonfiction.
Lesson for DECEMBER
- Essential Question: What is Fiction? What is Nonfiction? short video or power point (depending upon internet accessibility)
- Objective: Students will be able to tell the difference between Fiction and Nonfiction materials.
- Activity:
- FICTION/ NONFICTION review;
- Happy Holidays!
- Assessment/Evaluation: Fiction/Nonfiction book sorting activity shared via the LIBRARY Google Classroom or GoGuardian. Students will sort the books by dropping and dragging the book titles into the correct columns for either Fiction or Nonfiction.
lesson for May 10th...
- Topic- FABLES
lesson for April virtual classes...games and activities on the last slide
CaldecottPowerPoint.pptxlesson for April 6-21
- Topic-
- Who gets the Caldecott Medal?
- Proc:
- watch Caldecott Video
- 1st time: LISTEN to ONLY the story This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen NO illustrations
- Listen and follow along with the illustrations.
- see how they tell two different stories and how important illustrations can be!
- Eval: Participation/T Observation & April Choice Board at the top of the Landing Page.
Live Meets During your scheduled class for Virtual Students
Lesson for March 1-12
Topic- Read Across America
OBJ: Students will be able to identify and locate the different parts of a book (title page, author, title, page number, spine, front cover, and back cover). Students will identify who the author and illustrator are as well as his/her job.
Proc: DR. SEUSS
Eval: Participation/T Observation
Live Meets During your scheduled class for Virtual Students
Lesson for Feb 3rd-9th
Essential Question: Why do we read aloud?
Choose a Story: https://www.litworld.org/virtualreadalouds
Live Meets During your scheduled class for Virtual Students
Lesson for nOVEMBER 31ST-DECEMBER 4TH
Topic: CODING
Objectives: Students will be able to identify coding.
Activity: Students will watch the following videos: What is coding? Why do we Code? How do we code?
Students will choose two or more of the Coding activities from the buttons or the Choice board below.
Lesson for October
Topic: Return to School/Introduce Engineering/Design Process
Objectives: The student will understand the job of an engineer and the step of the Design Process.
Method/Procedure:
1. Teacher will introduce engineering to students and explain that we will be engineers in library/STEAM this year. (watch video above and read slides above)
2. Teacher will read Rosie Revere, Engineer and ask questions to check for understanding.
3. Students will learn steps of Design Process through kinesthetic learning: Ask, Think, Plan, Create, Make it Better.
Assessment/Evaluation: participation in read aloud/Design Process learning
September
Live Meet during scheduled classes at 12:45 pm if you are able; if not, NO WORRIES! We will just be doing this activity during our Meet.
Topic : book care
Activity: What is a Library? https://edpuzzle.com/media/5f6b95c6e2a24c40c2c7b8a2
After watching the Library video above Listen to the story: What happened to Marion’s Book
Teacher will show students several library books that have been damaged.
Assessment/Evaluation: Create a poster for the Library; use one of the rules to make a sign for others to remember how to best take care of books. You can email me (heather.rowland@millville.org) a photo or save it for next week to share.
Activity: What is a Bad Seed and a Good Egg?
Listen to the story: The Bad Seed and then listen to The Good Egg.
Assessment/Evaluation: Choose your favorite character from either story.
Draw your own illustration of the character.
Keep it in a safe place to share with the group during our next live Meet.