G2 Curriculum Update - October 21st

Here is what is coming up in Grade Two.

Reading: Students are beginning their new reading unit on reading nonfiction.  To begin the unit, students will work on their skills of noticing, learning, and questioning as they explore nonfiction titles.

Writing: Our new writing unit is nonfiction writing.  To begin with, we will integrate with social studies as the students begin to create a class book about the city of Sao Paulo.

Social Studies: We are continuing to understand our communities and learn how Sao Paulo impacts us. We are exploring community workers, such as doctors and vendors to learn how they help us. Students made great connections to our field trip and learned how Sao Paulo is unique and how the city has many things for people to do that make it fun. In the next two weeks, we will begin to try and help our community by creating a book about Sao Paulo that teaches others about parts of the city. 

Math: We will continue learning and practicing more about place value. Next topics are:

• Three-Digit Nunbers in Unit, Standard,Expanded, and Word Forms,
• Modeling Base Ten Nunbers Within 1,000 with Money,
• Mid-Module Assessment Task (Lesson 10)
• Key Vocabulary
  ·           Standard Form: e.g. 576 Expanded Form: e.g. 576 = 500 + 70 + 6
  ·           Word Form: e.g. Five hundred seventy-six
  ·           Unit Form: Stating the amount of hundreds, tens, and ones in each number, e.g., 11 is stated as 1 ten 1 one, 27 as 2 tens 7 ones, 100 as 1 hundred, and 576 as 5 hundreds, 7 tens, 6 ones
  ·        Base-Ten Numeral: The idea that 1,000 equals 10 hundreds, 100 equals 10 tens, and so on.