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  Language Arts

Theme 1 Silly Stories

 

Stories We Will Read

 

Dragon Gets By by: Dav Pilkey

Julius by: Angela Johnson

Mrs. Brown Went to Town by: Wong Herbert Yee

 

Comprehension Strategies We Will Work On

Summarize

Monitor/ Clarify

Predict/ Infer

 

High Frequency Words

Week 1-

bought, front, kitchen, roll, until

Week 2-

brought, surprise, special, reason

Week 3-

 

 

Spelling Words (students will need to know how to spell these words and will be tested on them)

 

Week 1-

bag, his, dig, win, has, sat, is, ran, was, am, if, I

Review- big, an

Challenge- scratch, picnic

 

Week 2-

fox, leg, hug, wet, fun, from, nut, went, any, job, mop, of

Review-red, up

Challenge- block every

 

Week 3-

bite, side, hide, late, ate, line, size, fine, give, made, same, have

Review-gate, bike

Challenge-shake, write

 

 

 

 

 

Theme 5 Family Time

Stories We Will Read

Brothers and Sisters by: Ellen B. Senisi

Jalapeno Bagels by: Natasha Wing

Carousel by: Pat Cummings

Thunder Cake by: Patricia Polacco

 

Comprehension Strategies We Will Work On

Evaluate- to decide if what we are reading is entertaining, informative, or useful for us.

Question- to figure out what part you did not understand.

Predict/ Infer- to use what we have read and what we know to learn more than the author tells us.

Monitor/ Clarify - to ask questions about what you still need to understand.

 

High Frequency Words

Week 1-

middle, trouble, uncle

Week 2-

early, hair, instead

Week 3-

aunt, million, pair

Week 4-

air, child, heavy, hour

 

Spelling Words (students will need to know how to spell these words and will be tested on them)

 

Week 1-

when, chase, which, sheep, teeth, than, both, teach, wash, then, dish, catch

Review- she, bath

Challenge- lunch, whistle

 

Week 2-

train, trail, nail, tray, pay, rain, mail, sail, they, play, hay, great

Review- stay, day

Challenge- snail, subway

 

Week 3-

town, cow, mouse, house, clown, brown, sour, found, could, frown, how, should

Review- out, now

Challenge- around, towel

 

Week 4-

clean, we, mean, keep, be, read, please, eat, the, feel, tree, people

Review- he, see

Challenge- stream, steep

 

 

Language Arts

Theme 6- Talent Show

 

Stories We Will Read

The Art Lesson  by: Tomie dePaola

Moses Goes to a Concert  by: Isaac Millman

The School Mural by: Sarah Vazquez

 

Comprehension Strategies We Will Work On

Evaluate- to decide if what we are reading is entertaining, informative, or useful for us.

Summarize- to tell in your own words, what happened so far in the story

Question-  to figure out what part you did not understand.

 

Comprehension Skills We Will Work On

Author’s Viewpoint- sometimes an author lets the reader know how they feel about something by things their story characters do or say

Noting Details- Authors include small pieces of information in their stories or pictures to help readers understand the characters and events.

Problem Solving- characters in stories often have problems to solve and may have to try more than just one way to solve them.

 

Phonics-

Week 1- vowel pairs oo, ew, ue, ou

Week 2- Long I (igh, ie)

Week 3- Endings –ed, -ing

 

High Frequency Words (students should be able to recognize and read these words)

 

Week 1-

fair, gold, woman

 

Week 2-

heart, mind, alphabet

 

 

Week 3-

below, neighbor, should

 

Spelling Words (students will need to know how to spell these words and will be tested on them)

 

Week 1-

Zoo, book, room, tooth, soon, foot, hook, took, you, moon, good, who

Review- too, cook

Challenge- hoof, school

 

Week 2-

Sky, fly, right, find, try, mind, night, light, eye, high, dry, buy

Review- why, my

Challenge- flight, reply

 

Week 3-

Liked, chased, named, hoping, making, riding, baked, closed, using, hiding

Review- time, sleep

Challenge- teasing, decided

 

 

 

 

 

Math Goals

Unit 1

  • Find values of coin and bill combinations
  • Know “easy” addition facts (sums to 10)
  • Identify place value for ones, tens, and hundreds
  • Complete number sequences; identify and use number patterns to solve problems
  • Find equivalent names for numbers
  • Compare numbers; write the symbols for great than, less than, or equal to
  • Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s
  • Make tallies and give the total

 

Unit 2

  • Know “harder” subtraction facts
  • Know “harder” addition facts
  • Complete “What’s My Rule?” tables
  • Construct fact families for addition and subtraction
  • Complete simple Frames-and-Arrows diagrams
  • Solve simple addition number stories
  • Find equivalent names for numbers

 

Unit 3

  • Solve Frames-and-Arrows problems having two rules
  • Make change with money
  • Know more difficult subtraction facts
  • Tell time to 5-minute intervals
  • Identify place value in 2-digit and 3-digit numbers
  • Show coins for a given amount of money

 

Unit 4

  • Devise and use strategies for finding sums of 2-digit numbers
  • Devise and use strategies for finding differences of 2-digit numbers
  • Estimate approximate costs and sums
  • Read degrees Fahrenheit on a thermometer
  • Add and subtract multiples of 10

 

Unit 5

  • Identify 3-dimensional shapes, such as rectangular prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres
  • Identify symmetrical figures
  • Find common attributes of shapes
  • Identify parallel and nonparallel line segments
  • Draw line segments
  • Identify 2-dimensional shapes

 

 

Unit 7

  • Find missing addends for any multiple of 10.

  • Find the median of a data set.

  • Add three 2-digit numbers mentally.

  • Measure to the nearest inch.

  • Measure to the nearest centimeter.

  • Know complements of 10.

  • Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s and describe the patterns.

  • Find missing addends for the next multiple of 10.

  • Solve number-grid puzzles.

  • Plot data on a bar graph.





Riverside Elementary West
Mrs. Morgan's 2nd Grade Class
Room 148
308 Davis St.
Taylor, PA 18517