Monthly Archives: November 2013

-Cookie Dough orders arrive this week.

-Thanksgiving Holiday next week. School is dismissed at 12:52 on Wednesday, November 27, 2013. No School Thursday and Friday, November 28 and 29.

Language Arts:

Unit 3: Text Structure

Story: “A Trip to the Firehouse”

2.RI.7 Explain how specific images,  such as a diagram explaining how a machine works, contribute to and clarify a text.

2.W.3 Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short series of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, and use temporal words to signal event order and provide a sense of closure.

2.RI.2 Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Spelling Words

 Language Arts Academic Vocabulary:

text features, captions, diagrams, photographs

 Language Arts Domain Specific Vocabulary:

 Math:

 Unit 4: Place Value

 Purpose/Focus: This unit calls for students to read, write, and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. Remember than when reading and writing whole numbers, the word “and” should not be used. 235 would be written as “two hundred thirty-five”. Students are introduced to symbols greater than >, less than <, and equal to = in First Grade and use them in Second Grade with numbers within 1,000.

 2.NBT. 3 & 4 – Compare numbers based on meaning of tens and ones.

2.OA.2- Gain fluency with subtraction facts through 20 (Math Facts in a Flash Practice)

 Standards for Mathematical Practice:

 MP2: “Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Create a logical representation of the problem. Attend to meanings of quantities.” (SJUSD Division of Instruction, June 2013)

 MP7:  “Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.” (SJUSD Division of Instruction, June 2013)

-This is Conference Week. School is dismissed at 12:22 every day.

-Every family has a conference time scheduled. If your appointment does not work for you, contact your child’s teacher to reschedule!

-The very best way to contact your child’s teacher if you aren’t able to come by the classroom is to email them:

    SSeyan@SJUSD.org or HWon@SJUSD.org

Language Arts Focus:

Unit 3: Text Structure

Week 1 Story: “Chinatown” by William Low

Spelling Words

 Standards:

2.RL.4-Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines)supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

2.W.3-Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

2.SL.1- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

2.L.2- Demonstrate a command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Math Focus:

Unit 4: Using Place Value to 100

Purpose/Focus: Students will read, write, and represent a number of objects with a written numeral (number form or standard form). They will have many opportunities tor read and write numerals in different ways. Students will be reviewing to greater then >, less than <, and equal to = and have ample experiences communicating their comparisons in words before symbols are started.

Second graders will rely on first grade knowledge of hundreds, tens, and ones, modeling numbers, and comparing them.

Common Core Standard:

2.NBT.3 & 4: Read and write numbers to 1,00 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form; and: Compare two three-digit numbers based on the meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, <, and= symbols to record the results of comparisons.

Standards for Mathematical Practice:

MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Attend to meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them. “How is ______related to____?”; “What is the relationship between____and___?”

MP7: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning. “What patterns do you find in______?”; “How do you know something is a pattern?”