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PS 230 2nd Grade Team

Front Row (L to R) - Mrs. Kolenovic, Mrs. Randazzo, Ms. Sauco, Ms. Connuck, Ms. Orefice,

Back Row (L to R) - Ms. Saeed, Mrs. Markovinovic

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 What is 2nd Grade Learning this Month?

Reading Workshop:

      In reading workshop, we will begin our Characters and their Stories unit!  We will be working hard to learn all about our characters and they respond to events and challenges.

     Students will also be thinking about character’s feelings throughout the turns of the text as well as identifying their internal and external traits.

     Through this close work on with characters, readers will “ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how” to show their understanding of the key details within the text. Readers will practice walking in the characters’ shoes and taking on the events and challenges their characters’ face.

 

Helpful Tips for Parents:

     Please continue to encourage your child to read the books in their reading baggie every night for 35 minutes!  To support your child at home, please begin discussing the characters in their books. You can ask them questions about their characters and books, such as…

  • How are your characters feeling?
  • Do their feelings change in the book?  If so, what made them change?
  • How would you describe your character(s)? (Think of their traits!) 

Writing Workshop: 

     In writing workshop, students will continue working on their nonfiction pieces.  Students will begin to add facts about their topics across several pages.  We will also continue to incorporate a variety of text features in a purposeful war.  Students will also be learning about different types of non-fiction writing, such as, Question and Answer books and How-to books!

     At home, please continue to encourage your child to read their nonfiction books and point out the text features and why the author may have included them.

Helpful Tips for Parents:

  • Have your children brainstorm topics that they know a great deal of information about.
  • Discuss the text features authors use and talk about why!
  • If there is a sight word in your child’s piece that they have learned, it should be spelled correctly.

 

Social Studies:

      In continuation of the art of Native Americans, students will learn about the design motifs found on blankets and pottery and use them for their own interpretation in a collage.

     

STEM

Math Workshop:

     We will focus on the place value of 2-digit numbers, and operating on those numbers within 100.  Students will come to see 100 as 10 tens and multiples of 100 as being made up of some number of hundreds.  They will solve a variety of types of story problems.  They will play games that involve combining amounts to get to 100 or $1.00.  They will work on fluency with addition and subtraction within 100, with a focus on using known facts and knowledge of the operation.  Students will also identify, read, and write numbers to 500, and add and subtract 10 in that range.

Helpful Tips for Parents:

  • Have students count the money in your wallet. Encourage them to not only add cents, but dollars as well.

 

Science:

      In Science, 2nd graders will be exploring places where earth materials are naturally found and ways that earth materials are used.  Students will learn how people use rocks as natural resources to construct objects and to make useful materials. They will be able to identify that earth materials are commonly used in the construction of buildings and streets. Students will also identify that the properties of different earth materials make each suitable for specific uses.

  

ENL

English as a New Language (ENL):

     Ms. Weinstein will support our ELL's to strengthen their reading, writing and language skills. 

Music:

     In January, we will move on from our study of dynamics and begin to learn about tempo (the speed of the beat).  We will also learn how to read a vocal score with notation.
   

Art: 

     In continuation of the art of Native Americans, students will learn about the design motifs found on blankets and pottery and use them for their own interpretation in a collage.

 

Physical Education

Gym:

     Bean Bag Activities!  We are practicing our hand coordination with an emphasis on throwing & catching gross motor abilities through various fun movement activities.