May/June: What is Grade 2 studying? 

Grade 2

ELA:

Module 4: Providing for Pollinators

Module Summary: 

Students will continue to build on their knowledge of pollinators from Module 3 as they deepen their literacy skills and build citizenship. Specifically, students explore the module guiding questions: “Why should people help pollinators to survive? How can I take action to help pollinators?”

Unit Tasks: 

• Reading folktales and fables and recounting the story elements; determining the central message based on the character’s response to challenges
• Students will read informational resources and write an opinion using reasons to support their view.  
• Students will take action by creating and gifting a wildflower seed packet and provide reasons why they should support butterflies.

Eureka Math:

Module 7: Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data 

• Problem solving with data, coins and bills, and customary and metric units 
• Measuring and estimating length using customary and metric units 
• Displaying measurement data 

Module 8: Time, Shapes, and Fractions as Equal Parts of Shapes 

• Attributes of geometric shapes 
• Composite shapes and fraction concepts 
• Halves, thirds, and fourths of circles and rectangles 
• Application of fractions to tell time