Class News April 29-May3

What’s New in Grade Two?

April 29-May 3, 2013

 

Important Dates

Apr. 29           Culture Assembly 1pm

May 2             Music Program 8:30am

May 10           Field Day!

May 16           Talent Show! 1pm 
                        Culture Assembly

May 22           Last day of school!

Reading/Language Arts

Story: Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag

Comprehension: Fact and Opinion

Grammar:  Quotation Marks

Fluency:  Accuracy, Pace, Intonation  Current goal = 102-112 wpm

End of year goal = 120 wpm

Spelling/Phonics: Inflected Endings

Vocabulary: Homophones

Spelling words

tried   trying   planned  planning   liked   liking   hiked   hiking   cried   crying   skipped   skipping   danced   dancing   replied   replying    

Dictation Sentences

He liked that we planned to go hiking.

I was skipping and dancing all the way home.

Math

Telling Time, Fractions, and Multiplication

Social Studies

Africa in April:

Understand the diversity of human cultures; Recognize the contributions of people of other ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups;

Science

Habitats of plants and animals

Ways that plants and animals depend on each other

Relationship between animal’s characteristics and it’s environment

How fossils tell about organisms that lived in the past