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Week of June 8th: Thank you!

Dear Parents,

This week in class the students will play games, reflect on and celebrate their year in second grade, and say goodbye to our leaving friends.

We want to say a huge thank you to all of you for your support this year.  When we started the year we never could have imagined what the last few months have been like!  From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for the support you have given to your child, to us, and to the Graded community.

It has been a pleasure teaching your child this year!

All the best,

Shannon, Sandra, Jeff, Jessie, Renata, Kênia, Betina, and Matthew
The Second Grade Team

G2 Curriculum Update: June 1st

Reading: This week students will be working on poet features of structure, point of view, and alliteration. Then they will get to share their own poems on Flipgrid. 

Writing: Our poets collections of poems continue to grow!  This week the students will learn about different structures and points of view that they can use in their poems.  They will work towards choosing a poem or poems to publish on Thursday for our poetry celebration next week.

Math:   It’s time to practice telling time! Using an analog clock, help your child practice telling time to the nearest 5 minutes. Relate a.m. and p.m. to the time of the day. Solving elapsed time problems involving whole hours and a half-hour will be our last math lesson this last trimester in second grade!

Grammar/Word Study: This week in word study the second graders will study rhyme.  There will be no grammar lesson this week, as the students are focusing on publishing their poetry.

Science: Scientists with be doing an engineering challenge this week.  They will design and build a device to keep a popsicle or ice from melting.  Students will use different insulating materials from around the house.  

Português:  Essa semana, para concluir o tema desenvolvido neste trimestre, os alunos escreverão um Conto de Fadas.

PAL: Quizlet review game and reading at Elefante Letrado

Activity Day on Friday, May 29!

G2 Curriculum Update: May 25th

**Please note that Friday, May 29th is a report card writing day for teachers.  On this day the learning activities will be posted by Dr. Purcell and Ms. Jenn.  There will be no class meetings on Friday, and homeroom teachers will not be available to answer questions on this day.  If your child's individual meeting time needs to be changed you will be contacted by their teacher.  Thanks for your understanding!

Reading: This week our students will be working on understanding poetic features. We will be exploring repetition, similes, and imagery. 

Writing: Our poets continue to show creativity as they express a feeling through a specific event in their poetry.  This week they will explore using repetition and similes to create a mood in their poems.

Math: Module 8: Fractions! Describe a whole by the number of equal parts including 2 halves, 3 thirds, and 4 fourths and also recognize that equal parts of an identical rectangle can have different shapes. Teachers will be assessing the students during their check-ins time this week.

Grammar/Word Study: This week in word study the second graders will continue to study homophones.  There will be no grammar lesson this week.

Science: Students investigate the properties of insulators in their attempts to keep cups of water from freezing, and once frozen, to keep them from melting.

Português:  Nessa semana, os alunos realizarão leituras no Elefante Letrado e escreverão um Conto de Fadas usando brinquedos como personagens, para se prepararem para a escrita final de seu Conto de Fadas.

PAL: Reading exercise in Google form and Elefante Letrado.

Visita ao vivo no zoológico de São Paulo!

Art Class LIVE!

Hello 2nd Grade Artists!

Please join me today at 1pm for an Art class LIVE!
Come prepared with a piece of cadboard (an empty cereal box, or any other smaller box- soap, toothpaste box) and a pair of scissors.
We will work together for about 20 minues to make an Abstract Sculpture!

Hope to see you all there!

Ms Cris

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.

Join Us Tomorrow! The Great Indoor Scavenger Hunt!

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G2 Curriculum Update: May 11th

Reading: Book clubs are off to a great start! We will be continuing practicing our discussion skills by talking about how problems and solutions can help students understand their characters, as well as reviewing author's craft of choosing endings. 

Writing: The kids did an amazing job on their opinion videos!  This week we will start our poetry writing unit.  The kids will learn how poets see the world in a different way, how to choose a topic that is meaningful to them as poets, and how poets use line breaks to communicate their ideas.

Math: MODULE 8: Time, Shapes and Fractions as Equal Parts of Shapes

In this final module of the year, students extend their understanding of part-whole relationships through the lens of geometry. As students compose and decompose shapes, they begin to develop an understanding of unit fractions (fractions with one in the numerator) as equal parts of a whole.

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

Science: Describe and classify a variety of objects according to observable physical properties or attributes. Continue to explore the 3 states of matter.

Português:  Nessa semana, além de ler e gravar no Elefante Letrado, e fazer atividades no livro "Como fazer um livro de historinhas", os alunos farão algumas atividades referentes às características dos Contos de Fadas.

PAL: Flipgrid activities and Elefante Letrado reading activities.

Hat Day on Friday, May 8!

G2 Curriculum Update: May 4th

Reading: This week students will begin book clubs! They will be discussing predictions and character traits. Please make sure they are on time for their book club on Tuesday and Friday. 

Writing: This week the students will work on creating a persuasive video. In this video they will read an opinion letter to other second graders. The students will use their words, technology, and props to try to persuade the other second graders to agree with their opinion.

Math: This week we will end Module 7!

Students will infer and draw conclusions from data.  They will also discover that a table is useful for organizing data, while a line plot allows for visual comparisons of the data. 

Grammar/Word Study: This week in word study the second graders will continue to study compound words.  In grammar the focus will be on countable nouns.

Science:  Properties of matter! Our new topic!

• List observable properties of common materials, including color, texture, hardness, and flexibility.

Português: Nessa semana, os alunos farão algumas atividades referentes às características dos Contos de Fadas. Além disso, farão atividades no livro "Como fazer um livro de historinhas" e lerão um livro no Elefante Letrado.

PAL: Students will review the exercise and reading on the Elefante Letrado.

G2 Curriculum Update: April 27th

Reading: This week students will continue learning about Author's Craft. They will focus on how to think about the meaning of literary language through poems. Next, students will observe how author's use punctuation, font, and capitalization to make stories come to life. Finally, they will try and discover why an author ends a story a certain way. 

Writing: This week we will continue to write letters about topics the students choose.  The students will work on adding strong conclusions, using transition words to explain their reasons, and editing for punctuation.

Math: We will continue to solve MONEY problems using coins and bills! This week students will learn how to use different strategies to make ONE DOLLAR and make change from one dollar bill!

Grammar/Word Study: This will be the final week of studying the -er and -est spelling rules in word study.  In grammar the focus will continue to be on subject/verb agreement.

Social Studies: 
Students learn what it means to be a good shopper!
• Identify habits of a good shopper.
• Distinguish between needs and wants.
• Analyze advertised prices to plan a budget-based shopping trip.
• Decide which product to buy based on comparison of features and prices.

Português: Nessa semana, os alunos irão ler, ouvir e assistir histórias, para assim continuar ampliando seu repertório sobre Contos de Fadas. Também trabalharão com o Livro de Historinhas. Além disso, farão algumas atividades referentes às características dos Contos de Fadas.

PAL: Students will do activities on the Timi 1 and on the Timi 2 books. In reading, students will have an assigned reading at Elefante Letrado.

How to Reduce the Stress of Homeschooling

Hello Parents,
In this article, How to Reduce the Stress of Homeschooling on Everyone, a school psychologist offers parents some simple, yet practical advice on how best to support your children through Distance Learning.  I thought many of you might find it useful. 
Have a great weekend! 

G2 Curriculum Update: April 22nd

Reading: This week students will explore how authors use language to craft stories by investigating how authors use precise words and literary language to help create vivid pictures for their readers. 

Writing: This week we will begin to explore how we write opinions about topics other than books.  They will brainstorm different topics they could have opinions about and reasons that would support their opinions.

Math: Problem Solving with Coins and Bills!
KEY VOCABULARY:  One Penny = 1 cent/ One Nickel = 5 cents/ One Dime = 10 cents/ One Quarter = 25 cents.

·         Bar Graph: Diagram showing data using lines or rectangles of equal width

·         Data: Facts assembled for analysis or information

·         Degree: Unit of temperature measure

·         Foot: ft., unit of length measure, equal to 12 inches

·         Inch: in., unit of length measure

·         Legend: Notation on a graph explaining what symbols represent

·         Line Plot: Graph representing data with an X above each instance of value on a number line

·         Picture graph: Representation of data like a bar graph, using pictures instead of bars

How can you help at home:

·         Once your child has learned a few ways of representing data, find something around the house you can make a line or bar graph about, e.g., types of stuffed animals, colors of LEGO pieces, favorite books, etc.

Grammar/Word Study: The students will continue to learn about suffixes this week in word study.  In grammar the focus will be subject/verb agreement.

Social Studies: Due to the short week there will not be a social studies lesson this week.

Português: Nessa semana, os alunos irão ler, ouvir e assistir histórias, para assim continuar ampliando seu repertório sobre Contos de Fadas. Também trabalharão com o Livro de Historinha

PAL: Due to the short week, students will have the time to finish work undone and listen to a book being read aloud to them by the teacher.

Need new library books? Use Library Curbside Checkout!

Grade 2 recess every Thursday!

Sweet Tooth? Bake Brownie Brittle Cookies on Tuesday!

G2 Curriculum Update: April 13th, 2020

Reading: This week students will be moving from learning about characters to author's craft. They will try and analyze how the author paints a picture with words by looking for the craft moves of sound words, small actions, dialogue, and setting. They will also look more into author's word choice and try and find words they didn't know before. 

Writing: This week the students will continue to work on adding more reasons to support their opinions.  They will also focus on the introduction and conclusion of their letters.  At the end of the week the students will have the chance to share one letter with third grade students through Flipgrid.

Math: NEW UNIT!! MODULE 7: Problem Solving with Length, Money and Data

This module presents an opportunity for students to practice addition and subtraction strategies within 100. They also use problem-solving skills as they learn to work with various types of units within the contexts of length, money and data. Students will represent categorical and measurement data using picture graphs, bar graphs and line plots.

Grammar/Word Study: The students will continue to explore how we use suffixes to change the meaning of words.  They will also learn more modals to help with their persuasive writing.

Social Studies: WHO PROVIDES SERVICES IN A COMMUNITY? Many people have jobs where they make things. Other people have jobs where they help, or “serve,” others. These jobs are services. Students understand that people who provide services in the community sometimes make things, too, such as meals in a restaurant. Students will learn that the services people provide are important to the community. They help keep the community healthy, safe, and happy.

Português: Nessa semana, vamos começar a unidade sobre Contos de Fadas. Os alunos irão ler, ouvir e assistir histórias. Também irão usar o Flipgrid para registrar suas ideias.

PAL: This week, students will do activities from their book TIMI in google form and also read in Elefante Letrado.

G2 Curriculum Update: April 6th, 2020

Reading: Students are finishing up understanding characters by making more predictions with evidence and learning about characters relationships. Students will see how characters will act differently around other characters just like people do. 

Writing: Students will continue to work on the goal they set for themselves last week from the opinion writing checklist.  They will also learn how to write about more than one part of the book, and how to gather more evidence to support their opinions.

Math: This week we will end Module 6! Students will continue to explore the meaning of even and odd numbers, learning various interpretations and relating these findings to addition. Students will discover that doubles facts yield even numbers, even when the number being doubled is not even!

Grammar/Word Study: This week the students will begin to learn what a suffix is and how we use suffixes.  They will also study how modals can help make their writing more persuasive.

Social Studies: This week we will focus on goods and services and how that can relate to needs and wants. Students will start to think about goods and services they could provide to benefit others. 

Português: No trabalho de Português desta semana, os alunos irão usar o livro “Como fazer um livro de historinhas” para escrever histórias. Além disso, no Elefante Letrado, irão escolher um livro para ler, fazer as atividades propostas e gravar a leitura.

PAL: This week, students will learn vocabulary related to parts of the house and they will also have some reading activities in google form.