Grade 2 inReview

Highlights and Happenings in Second

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Almost Spring 2015 February and March

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knowledge of greater Students also expand their and telling time. visual images of numbers, combinations, developing equivalencies and work on developing coin 100. There is continuing

Students continue to build their understanding of place value (ones, tens, hundreds) as they compose and decompose numbers into tens and ones and work with contexts and models for the Base-10 number system. Students apply their work with place value as they play games that involve composing and decomposing 100 and solve addition and subtraction problems to

Math, Unit 4 – How Many Tens and Ones

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Wapping Elementary

School91 Ayers RoadSouth Windsor,

CT 06074860-648-5010

In Social Studies we will begin a study of maps and globes. Students will study the similarities and differences between the two

as well as using map grids, a compass rose and directions.In Science we examined a unit on Balancing and Weighing. Students expand their understanding of the relationship between

balance and weight as they explore activities in balancing, comparing and weighing. Their experiments introduce them to concepts, skills and attitudes. They will make predictions, apply

strategies and record results. Added exposure to additional science terms such as volume, mass, gravity and matter were also explored.

The kids loved making their own mobiles applying what they discovered about balance and weight.

Reading & WritingOur fourth Unit of study in reading was focused on how Readers appreciate poetry. They focused on how characters in a story or poem respond to major events and challenges. They could describe how words and phrases had regular beats, demonstrated alliteration, rhyme and rhythm in a poem or song. They could describe the overall structure of a story including the description of how the story develops and concludes. Students understand that authors made decisions about how to tell their stories based on their purpose and audience. How they use structure and word choice to affect readers’ enjoyment and understanding of the text Students also can draw evidence from literary or Informational text. In Writing, the focus is to write a narrative piece of fiction.Narrative includes: a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, problem and solution details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, include some literary devices, such as rhyming and repetition, similes, personification, onomatopoeia temporal words to signal event order a sense of closure