2nd Grade Home Learning May 18 - 22
Please do not feel you need to complete every activity everyday. We understand you are busy and overwhelmed. Use what Dear Families, you can and what makes sense for your family. The 2nd grade teachers Reach out to your child’s have created activities teacher for support, if needed. We are here to help! in each subject area for each day of the week.
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Monday - May 18, 2020 Read for 20 minutes and retell the story to someone. Lexia - 15 minutes a day * Reading - Read US Postal Service with Mrs. Salazar and answer the questions. Math - Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbtmucV-U2c Ask your family to help you by giving some change and having you sort it and count it. Have them check how you did! Writing - This week in math is all about counting coins! Write a realistic fiction story about finding some money and what you will do with it...spend it? Save it? Bury it in the backyard? Don’t forget to include lots of details and creative descriptions! Keep this piece to work on tomorrow! Science/SS - This week is about U.S. National Parks and Iowa’s State Parks. Please watch the video, then write in this form which national parks you would like to visit and why. Guidance -
Tuesday - May 19, 2020 Read for 20 minutes and retell the story to someone. Lexia - 15 minutes a day Reading - Log into iReady through the Clever page (link). Click on “Reading” and complete “Next Lesson” under My Path. Math - Coin riddles . Read the riddles and use real coins to solve them. . Writing - Get out your “found money” piece from yesterday. Today is all about revising your draft Revising is where you make changes in your story to make it better. Check out this video here to help you get started. . Science/SS- Look at this picture , discuss with a family member or friend how this picture makes you feel. This is a real picture taken in 1940 in Dubuque Iowa. How do we make sure the rivers near us do not look like this?
Wednesday - May 20, 2020 Read for 20 minutes and retell the story to someone. Lexia - 15 minutes a day Reading - Today’s focus is fluency . Pick a page or a couple pages to read from a book. Practice reading your passage or pages to yourself, a stuffed animal, or someone at your house. When you feel you are fluent (nice and smooth) record it for us to hear. Watch Mrs. Donner’s video on Flipgrid. Push the green + to get started. *Math- Complete the money worksheet Writing - Nope, still not done with your “found money” story! Today we will edit - where you find and fix spelling, punctuation and capitalization errors, as well as anything else that makes it hard for your audience to read your story. Need help? Check out this video here! Don’t forget to share your story with someone! * Science/SS - T oday you will see a letter written in 1916 about creating Iowa’s parks and answer 3 questions. Library/Technology -Makerspace May Week #3: Building Bridges
Thursday - May 21, 2020 Read for 20 minutes and retell the story to someone. Lexia - 15 minutes a day Reading - Log into iReady through the Clever page (link). Click on “Reading” and complete “Next Lesson” under My Path. Math - Do Sumdog. *Writing - Tomorrow is Field Day -you will be encouraged to play games outside. Today, write a “how-to” piece where you teach your audience how to play tag. Think about your audience...is it another 2nd grader who has played lots of games, or an alien from Mars who doesn’t even know what a game is? Whoever it is, write your piece based on what your audience needs/wants to know. This video can help! Science/SS - T oday’s link will take you to Iowa DNR site listing all the state parks in Iowa you can explore over the summer months. Just for fun here is a word search with a secret message from Iowa’s DNR. Music -
Friday - May 22, 2020 Be sure to send pictures of you participating in Field Day to your teacher.
Virtual Field Trip- Here you will find a virtual field trip for each day of the week. Click on the links below to access each day’s field trip... Monday - M & M Factory Tour Tuesday - Explore Son Doong (World's Largest Cave) Wednesday - Coding Thursday - San Diego Elephants
Enrichment- Reading and Math This week’s enrichment is focused on some issues that lots of TAG kids deal with: perfectionism and growth mindset. Perfectionism means that you feel like you have to be perfect at everything yoy do. Growth mindset means you realize that there is ALWAYS room for growth. Please share your enrichment work with me at bcunningham@lewiscentral.org!
Special Education - Mrs. Jones’ Class Reading and Writing Daily : Read for 10 minutes and retell what you read to someone, then do Lexia for 15 minutes. Listen to this story about the letters qu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOeiGCfNPNg , The letter y: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEzxchU4RUY , The letter x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6AN3Nr_f-Y Vowels: short o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFe1JXK8nT4 , long o: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM6lc5YTgE4 Short and long u: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF59Xs60uRM Use this document to practice this weeks letters/sounds, heart words, vowel sounds, and special sounds: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FXJH3qiFvuAMmTpvUbpsLMofejTLUxf9LlDL1YO1b7I/edit Parents: Please contact me with any questions: bjones@lewiscentral.org Other reading resources: www.storylineonline.net www.kidsa-z.com
Social Skills Mrs. Jones Try Cosmic Kids Yoga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU1y7pX7dNo This is fun when you need a break or want to relax a little.
Special Education - Mrs. Jones’ Class Math Daily: review basic addition and subtraction within 20. You can use the flashcards in the materials I sent home with you. Spend some time doing Sumdog (10 minutes). Use this page as a guide for math this week. You may print if you like, talk about the answers or put them on another sheet of paper. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ca2zoaTEAtsDGHBF-MSQ2rJRQjegi4o-Tmw6u7WZ3Ek/edit You may choose to change the numbers for more of a challenge or make them lower if needed. Other math resources: www.splashlearn.com Use the login information you received in the mail or contact me for your child’s login information. Please contact me with any questions about math for this week: bjones@lewiscentral.org
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