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Peace
Love Harmony
Balance
We are collecting
Markers
for Haiti this week. Pickup will be March 22.
Week of March 8 - 12, 2010
Math Facts Quizzes -
Tues: 15-8=7 Thurs: 16-8=8
Biography reports
due Tuesday, March 23. Dress up as main character for presentation.
Poetry Day
- Friday, March 26 - Memorize a poem. Recite it in class.
Tell the name and the author and why you selected the poem. NO "Roses are
Red".
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Religion |
Begin Unit 4 - Jesus Gives Us the Gift
of Himself
Chapter 17- Jesus Invites Us (Pages 95
- 100) - At Mass, God's family gathers to worship and give thanks.
Vocabulary - altar
Chapter 17 test Friday.
Study guides are in their homework folders. |
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Phonics |
Unit 4 - Continuing
with contractions; plural endings s, es; ing, ed
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Math |
Unit 5 - Chapter 14 - Counting Money
- Count on to find the value of a group of pennies, nickels, and dimes; id
a quarter and half-dollar and count on to find the value of a group of
coins; count on to find the value of a group of coins; identify coin
combinations greater than and equal to a dollar; show equal amounts with
different coin combinations; make a list to solve problems
Vocabulary - dime, nickel, penny, cent sign; half-dollar, quarter,
dollar sign, decimal point; equal amount
Timed Quizzes -
Tues: 15-8=7 Thurs:
16-8=8
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Science |
Unit D- Weather and
Space ( pp.270 - 345) Chapter 8 -
The Solar System
Lesson 1 - What Are the Stars and
Planets? (pp. 308 - 315)
Lesson 2- What Causes Day and
Night? ( pp 316-323)
vocabulary- solar system, planet, orbit,
star, constellation, rotate
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Social
Studies |
Unit 4 - People Long Ago
Lesson 1 (pp. 172 - 175) - People &
Places Change
Lesson 2 (pp. 178 - 183) - Early
America
Vocabulary - past, present, future,
change, diagram, history, colony, settler, source
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Handwriting |
We will be learning to write
cursive letters s, j, p, a, d, g, o
They have already learned the
letters i, t, u, w, e, l, b, h, f, k, r, and s. The children may
practice these letters at home. |
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Spelling |
Unit 25 - pp. 162 - 167 - This lesson
teaches the concept of compound words. Children learn the strategy
of thinking of some long words as being made up of two shorter words that
have familiar spelling patterns.
Spelling Words -
cannot, pancake, maybe, baseball,
playground, someone, myself, classroom, sunshine, outside, upon, nothing,
into, inside, nobody, everywhere, shoelace, upstairs, cupcake, afternoon,
Bonus: seesaw
Test on Friday.
Dictation will be given.
Spelling City -
The children may go to Spelling City to practice our spelling words.
On our shared second grade website (the first page), go to
Educational Links, under Spelling click on Spelling City.
Once you're there, click on the blue tab Find A List.
In Enter Search Term, type Karen Lasich. On the next
screen, click on my name "Karen Lasich". Then click on the current
spelling unit. Have Fun!! |
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Reading
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Theme 3 - Around Town -
Neighborhood and Community.
Listening Comprehension
- Listen to identify the topic, main idea, and supporting details.
Teacher Read Aloud "Road Work Ahead"
Reading -
Comprehension Skill
- Topic, main idea, details; Comprehension Strategy -
Questioning; The children will read the story A Trip to the Firehouse.
Key Vocabulary
- chief, emergencies, firefighters, dispatch, fire engine, gear
High-Frequency Words
- clothes, guess, order
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English |
Special nouns (proper nouns); more than one (plural); nouns that change
spelling in the plural; tangrams
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