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SECOND GRADE!
No Reading Homework Due 10/16
SECOND GRADE!
Oct 8th and 9th - Parent/Teacher Conferences (email sign up sent out 9/23 from Becky Mascarenas)
Oct. 9th - No School
Oct 12th - No School
Oct 13th - 15th - 2nd Grade CogAT testing (No Reading Homework for the week of 10/12)
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Oct 23rd - PTO "Fun"d Run Click to find out how to register and donate!
Oct 28th - Core Virtues Assembly *award earners will be notified in homework folders, Mrs. West's homeroom will be presenting a short skit at 8:10
Oct.30- Fall Festival Parade at 1:30 parents in the gym / Party 2:00-3 in 2nd grade classrooms. Click to see how you can help!
Fall Festival Costume Guidelines:
1. No weapons
2. No blood
3. No gore
4. No inflatables
5. Dress code applies: 2 finger rule, length of outfit, no cleavage, no tummy or back showing (rips okay if with outfit & modest)
No offensive outfits (i.e. if it causes a problem for you or someone else, don’t wear it)
If the costume is disruptive to class, the student may be asked to take it off.
Students may wear masks during the parade if the mask has no blood, gore, etc
What are we currently working on?
Module 2: Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurements Topic A: Understanding Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurement
Lesson 1:Connect the composition of 1 kiliogram to the composition of 1 thousand.
Lesson 2: Estimate the weight of familar objects and read scales when weighing objects.
Lesson 3: Use all four operations to solve one-step word problems involving weight.
Lesson 4: Connect decomposition of 1 liter to the decomposition of 1 thousand.
Click for: Math Facts Due: Thursday, October 8 ,2026
Click for: Past Math Facts
Topic A: Family Math Letter
Module 1: Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurement and Data
Topic F: Family Math Letter
10/7 Lesson 26 (HW 26): Write base-ten numbers in expanded form.
10/8 Lesson 27 (No Homework): Read, write, and relate base-ten numbers in all forms.
10/13 Review and Catch Up Day (Homework 27)
Topic G: Family Math
10/14 Lesson 28 (HW 28): Use place value understanding to count and exchange $1, $10, and $100 bills.
10/15 Lesson 29 (HW 29): Count by $1, $10, and $100
10/16 Lesson 30 (No HW): Determine how many $10 bills are equal to $1,000
Unit 2 Week 3: Home Connection
CLICK: What is fluency? Why is it important?
CLICK : Fluent Reading in Second Grade-video
Click: Where are the spelling words?
Pachello Homework THURSDAY 10/8
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No Reading Homework Due 10/16
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Phonics/Word Structure:
silent e long vowels
variant vowels /u/ spelled oo
ending-ed, -ing, -es
High Frequency Words: before, school, very, morning, built, building
Vocabulary: rights, laws, persevere, government, equality, peaceful, awareness, citizen, debate, determined
Comprehension:
Read and comprehend texts.
Understand and identify the features of narrative nonfiction and biographies.
Make inferences.
Use sequence text structure to understand key events in a text.
Compare similar themes and and topics across texts.
Writing and Grammar:
Produce compound subjects and compound predicates to improve sentence fluency.
Produce compound sentences.
Produce sentences using subject-verb agreement.
Solids and Liquids
Students will learn...
Solid is one state or phase of matter.
Objects are described and identified by their properties. Natural and human-made objects occur outdoors
Objects are made of one or more materials.
Engineers use knowledge of material properties to design structures that solve problems.
Ancient China - Family Letter
Students will learn...
The two main rivers in China are the Yellow river and the Yangtze River.
The Great wall of China was built to keep the nomads out and protect the Chinese Empire
Ancestors are an important part of the Chinese culture and they believe in taking care of their ancestors that have passed.
Confucius taught the people of China how to live virtuous lives through kindness.
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