These are the concepts students will be learning about this quarter!
Reading Quarter 4
Collaborative Conversations to Support Making Connections
In this unit, students will be participating in collaborative discussions around text. They will read a complex text, stopping at predetermined places to discuss and answer “queries”. Queries are specially designed questions which promote discussion rather than a specific answer. Students will continue learning about how reasons support specific points, through the theme of maps. Finally, students will begin to work on making connections WITHIN a procedure or a scientific process. Students will engage daily with complex texts in heterogeneous whole group lessons followed by small group lessons focused on individually leveled complex text.
Essential Questions
How does understanding an author's purpose help with analyzing increasingly complex text?
How can determining the question that the author wants to answer help readers understand?
Why is it important to understand relationships in informational texts?
How does an ability to compare and contrast text support the reading of texts with greater complexity?
Why is it important to understand relationships between ideas, events and steps in informational texts?
Writing Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.a. With guidance and support from adults, organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write.b. With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
Social Studies
Environmental Literacy and Geography Building on the work of K-1 (understanding communities and how to care for them), 2nd graders continues with understanding how humans impact their environment and how to read and interpret maps. T
Essential Questions: How do people affect the environment? Why do we need to care for the earth? How do I read and use a map?
We will do a project in the 2nd half of the 4th Quarter on Geography.....more to come!
Math
Quarter 4 This Unit, which focuses on data, serves as a platform to solve one and two-step word problems. Students work with the process of data collection as they pose relevant questions, collect data to answer their questions, organize data, and interpret the results. This includes both measurement and categorical data. Measurement data should be based on standard units of linear measure, while categorical data should be sorted into non-numeric categories. Essential Questions:
How can I collect, organize, and use data to make decisions about the world?
How can I interpret data from a graph to solve problems?
Math Language:
Picture Graph
Bar Graph
Data Set
Data Table
Category
Label
Title
Science
Students will: Compare life cycles of different animals such as, but not limited to, mealworms, ladybugs, crickets, guppies or frogs.
What does this clarifying objective mean a child will know, understand and be able to do?
Students know that animals experience a cycle of life which begins with birth, then a period of time in which the animal develops into an adult. At adulthood, animals reproduce in order to sustain their species. In nature, all animals are programmed to age and eventually die. The details of the life cycle are different for specific animals. Students know that different animals spend varying periods of time in each stage of the life cycle and that some animals have few stages, while others have several. Students know that animals might look the same, similar, or completely different at specific stages of development. Students know that animals may have varied needs at different stages of development, and may occupy unique habitats according to these
Dates and things to Know:
Green Folders come home each night! Homework consists of one Math practice page each night and nightly reading for 20 minutes (Reading Logs get turned in at the end of the month) Friday you will see a Progress Report for your child. Please sign and return it! No SCHOOL MAY 1ST TRACK OUT MAY 10TH-JUNE 4TH LAST DAY OF SCHOOL IS JUNE 28TH