Ms. Greenblatt's class

2nd Grade Overview- January

Reading

• Unit: Live & Learn:

• Use questioning and author's purpose to answer, "How can people help out in their community?"

• Read nonfiction texts about wild weather (ex: tornados) to answer, "How does weather affect us?"

• Learn how to evaluate an author and his/her text to determine importance.

• Describe the main idea vs. details in a text

• Start New Unit 4: Our Life/Our World to answer, "What can we learn from our world?"

Writing

• Generating ideas from family stories, important events, and past memories

• Choosing one special idea and writing first draft

• Edit & Review draft

• Publish Final Draft of Personal Narrative

• (Look out for another invitation to our 2nd Publishing Party in the classroom!)

Math

• Finish Unit 5: Computation & Measurement Unit

• Unit 6: Time "Students will tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using A.M. and P.M.

• Review past three units for Quarter 2 Assessment at end of January

Science

• Review & test on Solar System chapter: "What are some ways the Earth moves?"

• Start new chapter on Severe Weather (ex: tornado, hurricane, lightning, blizzard)