CLASS NEWSLETTER Volume 1, Issue 5

Second Grade News September 14, 2010

Reading Connection Be On Time!!!

Special dates This week we are reading My Name is Yoon (Realistic Fiction—a made-up story that could happen in real life)
of interest: in class.
We will focus on Summarizing . We will tell about a story’s main characters, setting, and plot. Summarizing a
 Sept. 13 Stu- story can help your child understand what he/she has read.
dent Holiday This Week’s Skills
Comprehension: Summarize
 Sept. 17 In-
Skill: Plot Development: Make Predictions Plot is the series of events that makes up a story’s beginning,
terims go middle, and end. A prediction is a reasonable guess about what will happen later in the plot. When you make
home a prediction, you use the text, the pictures, and what you know from real life to make a guess about what will
happen next. When you confirm a prediction, you read on to find out whether the prediction you made was
 Sept. 20 Book
correct. Making and confirming predictions helps your child better understand the
Fair Begins
events that make up the plot.
 Sept. 21 Fun Phonics: words with Short /o/ o, long /o/ o_e and decoding words
Town Night Vocabulary: patient, practiced, favorite, wrinkled, settled, cuddle
Strategy; Word Parts /Inflected verbs
 Sept. 23 Indi- Grammar: Combining subjects and predicates. Two sentences can have the same predicate by joining the
vidual Picture subjects with the word and. Two sentences can have one subject and have two predicates. Sentences can
Day also have some of the same words and the can also be combined by using and. Quotation Marks. Quotation
marks are at the beginning and end of what a person says.

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Math—Place Value Concepts Monday

 Topic 3—Identify the place value of digits by
counting through the hundreds.
Compare and order multi-digit numbers through

Professional Development Day—No school!
Tuesday
Spelling Write words 3 x each.
Reading My Name Is Yoon p. 116-142 Use Predic-

the hundreds by using models.

 Compare numbers using the > (greater than), <
(less than) and = (equal to)
Science—Forces and Motion
This week we will be
discussing different
kinds of motion, for
example, straight,
circular, back and forth.
Work is done when a
force moves an object.
tion Chart.
Math 3.2 Reading and Writing Numbers
Wednesday
Spelling Write 5 sentences with 2 spelling words in
each sentence.
Reading My Name Is Yoon p. 116-42 Read for Flu-
ency and focus on vocabulary.
Math 3.3 Using Models to Compare Numbers
Thursday
Spelling Study words for spelling test.
Reading New Americans in Florida p. 145-147
Math 3.4 Using Symbols to Compare Numbers