Monday, September 23, 2013

Overview of September 23rd-27th


Literacy Block

Writing: Students will continue their drafts of their informational books they started last week. They will use the checklist as a guide while they write

Essential Question: How do I assess my own informational writing?

Guided Reading Center
EQ: How can I infer character traits based on their words, actions, and thoughts?

Word Sort Center
EQ: How will learning spelling patterns help me become a better reader and writer?

Independent Reading Center
EQ: How can I infer character traits based on their words, actions, and thoughts?

Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4a Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.2.4b Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.5 With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing

Math
We are finishing up the culminating math activities for MCC.2.NBT and are beginning to use mental strategies to add and subtract numbers within 20. We will also being solving word problems using money.
Essential Questions: Can we change the order of numbers as we add and subtract? Why or why not? How do I express money amounts?

Standards
MCC2.NBT.2. Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
MCC2.NBT.3 Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
MCC.2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
MCC.2.MD.8 Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢  symbols appropriately.

Social Studies
We will begin our first social studies unit.
SWBAT identify and analyze the distribution of power

·      Who makes the rules in your home?
·      Who makes the rules at our school?
·      How are the rules in our classroom different from the rules in our school?
·      Why do you have the chores that you are responsible for?
·      How are your chores different from your brothers’ or sisters’ chores?
·      What jobs will students be responsible for in our classroom? Why?
·      What jobs will the teacher be responsible for in our classroom? Why?

Standard
SS2CG1 The student will define the concept of government and the need for rules and laws.

Science
We are finishing up a culminating activity on matter.

Essential Questions: How can matter be changed? What are some of the ways matter can change? How do we classify matter? What are the properties of matter?

Standards
S2P1. Students will investigate the properties of matter and changes that occur in objects.
a. Identify the three common states of matter as solid, liquid, or gas.
b. Investigate changes in objects by tearing, dissolving, melting, squeezing, etc

French ~ Information from Ms. Buntin: 
Students will use basic greetings. 
Students will write and recite classroom vocabulary.
Students will listen to the story, "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein in French. 

Standard
MLEI.IP2

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