G2 Curriculum Update: May 18th

Reading: This is our last week of book clubs! Students will be learning how to debate and celebrating all their hard work. If you could please help us by sending a treat with them to their book clubs on Friday, May 22, we would all greatly appreciate it. 

Writing: Our second grade poets are off to a great start with choosing poetry topics, describing their topic in a new or fresh way, and using line breaks to make their poetry sound like music.  This week we will be focusing on choosing precise words, and how to edit your poems for spelling.  The students will also learn more about using Google Slides, and how they can use color to help communicate their message.

Math: Module 8 - Continuation: Shapes, Fractions, and Equal Parts of Shapes!
Key Vocabulary:

·         Angle: figure formed by the corner of a polygon

·         Parallel: Two lines on the same plane are parallel if they do not intersect

·         Parallelogram: Quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel

·         Polygon: Closed figure with three or more straight sides, e.g., triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon

·         Quadrilateral: Four-sided polygon: square, rhombus, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid

·         Right Angle: a square corner

·         Third of (shapes), thirds: Three equal shares

·         A Whole: Can be made up of 2 halves, 3 thirds or 4 fourths

Grammar/Word Study: This week in word study the second graders will study homophones.  In grammar they will continue to focus on prepositions.

Science: MATTER! We will continue learning more about SOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND GASSES! Experiments and videos on the flipgrid will remain open this week! 

Português:  Essa semana será de preparação para o trabalho final dos alunos, que será escrever um Conto de Fadas. Vamos trabalhar planejando e desenvolvendo meios e finais de histórias.

PAL: Google Form exercises and reading aloud with D. Nati in Flipgrid.