January 16th Week 20

This Week's News

**Please send your child to school daily with a jacket! The weather is getting colder, but if it is appropriate, we will still go outside for recess. 


  Important Dates                                                    Reminders           



**Ride Changes need to be submitted using this link. Please have them submitted by 2:00 p.m. If you are picking up your child early, please make sure they are picked up no later than 2:30 pm per district policy. 

MAP Testing

We will take our middle-of-year MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) tests on Thursday and Tuesday.  Second grade students will take the Math MAP test on Tuesday, January 16th. MAP Growth is designed to measure how well a student is learning critical skills. It gives teachers detailed, actionable information they can use to guide instruction and better support students. It measures progress over the school year and across school years in Math and Reading. You can help your child prepare by making sure they get a good night’s sleep the night before and they eat breakfast to fuel their bodies that morning. If your child is absent on the testing day, they will be making up the test when they return to school.

This week we are learning about:

Reading Workshop:  

This week we will learn analyze plot elements and continue to explore poetry. We will also make inferences from poems and other texts using evidence to support our reasoning. 


Social Studies: 

 This week in Social Studies, we will review what we have learned previously about Martin Luther King Jr. and his contributions.  In Daily Geography, we will discuss a land and water map of Minnesota.  Daily Geography will be a grade this week.  

Writing Workshop:

This week in writing, we will launch our new poetry unit! We will discover how poet's see objects in unusual ways and how they choose their topics.

 

Phonics/Grammar: 

This week, we will  discover when to use -s to make a word plural and when to use -es.   We will also learn how to add an ending to words that end in Y.

Math Workshop: 

This week, our mathematicians will explore representations of multiplication by using skip counting and equal groups.


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Model problem- Video to show the steps of adding on a number line

This video is helpful for parents to watch so that you can see how it is being taught during class.  We will cover this concept this week!  Please let your child's teacher know if you have any questions. 

Science:  

This week in science we will continue our study over Earth and space. We will explore the solar system, discover shadows and how/why they change throughout the day, and end the week with a fun activity creating their own moon and moon phase.