Reading: Students will ask and answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of the text, referring explicitly to the text as a basis for the answers. We will also establish routines and relationships to sustain a reading and writing culture in our classrooms. Blue book bags and reading logs are sent home every day. Students should be reading 2 steps (30 minutes) each night and logging it on their reading log. Each Friday, your child's teacher will collect these, record them, and send them back with an updated number of steps. 

Grammar: This quarter students will alphabetize a series of words and use a dictionary or glossary to find words, capitalize months, days of the week, and the salutation and conclusion of a letter,  end punctuation, apostrophes in contractions, and commas with items in a series and in dates, and identify correct spelling of words with grade‐appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high‐frequency words. 

Social Studies: Students will identify major landforms and bodies of water, including each of the seven continents and each of the oceans, on maps and globes, and identify and use information on maps and globes using basic map elements such as title, cardinal directions, and legend.

Science: Students will study force and motion. Students will be able to explain how objects push on each other and may change shape when they touch or collide, and plan and conduct a descriptive investigation to demonstrate how the strength of a push and pull changes an object’s motion. 

Phonics: This week we will be looking at VCe words. Home practice pages are send home in students' blue book bags. If students are practicing these pages, feel free to add it to their Home Reading Log. 

SNACKS/WATER

Please remember to send a healthy, utensil-free snack and refillable water bottle daily with your student. Please no sweets, chips, sodas, or candy.  We have peanut allergies in 2nd grade, so please do not send a snack containing peanuts with your child to school. Thank you for your help with this!