Week 5...Keep on Going!

What We are Learning this Week......

Language Arts

Reading is Thinking

Students will make inferences and draw conclusions about theme as well as provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. 


Writing

Students will write a personal narrative using a "heart map".

Social Studies

Students will understand the various levels of local, state, and national government.

Math/Science

Math

We are now beginning to learn how to add 3 digit numbers to 2 and 3 digit numbers.  In second grade, the students learned how to add a 2 digit with another 2 digit.

Let your student roll dice or draw cards from a deck to build a three digit number and a two digit number that they will add up.  Many students are struggling with remembering to carry over from their ones to their tens place.  Practice with them and let them check it with a calculator!

Next week, we will begin subtraction!  They also struggle with remembering when and how to borrow!  Any help at home is appreciated!

Students still need to practice their rounding to the tens and hundreds place up to a 5 digit number.

Science

Now that we have learned how to identify solids, liquids, and gasses, we will now learn how to turn a solid to a liquid and change a liquid to either a solid or gas by adding or taking away heat.  We will discuss how the molecules speed up when heat is added and slow down when heat is taken away.  We will continue our discussion on how solids keep their shape, liquids take the shape of their container, and gasses move freely about inside and outside their container.

We also started discussing weather during week 4 and will continue this throughout the school year.  We are discussing how to read a thermometer or temperature dial and a rain gauge.  We are also discussing how warm and cold air along with moisture creates clouds and fog and how the wind moves the clouds in the atmosphere.