Welcome to Second Grade!

November: What is Grade 2 studying? 

ELA:

Module 1: Schools and Community

Module Summary: Students are studying the similarities and differences in schools across the world. School is a place designed for students to build knowledge and skills, foster character and relationships and create high quality work.

Unit Tasks:  

• Students engage in whole class research to learn about the similarities and differences between their own school and three schools from the text. Students extend their research in small groups by focusing on one school in particular and producing an informational text about it titled "The Most Important Thing about Schools." Throughout the unit, students participate in collaborative conversations with their peers to process and extend their understanding of the similarities and differences between their own school and the school they have researched.

Module 1: 

Module Summary: Students are studying the similarities and differences in schools across the world. School is a place designed for students to build knowledge and skills, foster character and relationships and create high quality work.

Unit Tasks:  

• After researching schools around the world and noticing similarities and differences among them as well as their own school, they will produce an informational book titled, "The Most Important Thing about Schools." 

Module 2: Fossils Tell of Earth’s Changes

Unit Summary: In this module, students build their literacy and science skills as they engage in a study of fossils. Students will learn what fossils are and what paleontologists do. 

Unit Tasks: 

• Students will be engaged with a read aloud about Mary Anning, her love for discovering fossils and her significance as a fossil hunter. Throughout the close read aloud, students engage in questions and activities that help them understand how Mary Anning responds to different challenges in her life, and particularly the habits of character she uses to overcome these challenges.

Eureka Math:

Module 3: Place Value, Counting, and Comparison of Numbers to 1,000

Students will...…

• form base ten units of a ten, a hundred, and a thousand
• understand place value units of one, ten, and a hundred
• write three-digit numbers in unit, standard, expanded, and word forms

Module 4:  Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100

Students will...…

• add and subtract multiples of 10 
• represent subtraction 
• solve one- and two-step word problems within 100
• use number bonds to break apart three-digit minuends