Monday, May 6, 2019

Week of May 6th

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RELIGION

-Congratulations to the 2nd graders on their big sacramental weekend(s)
-First Communion Review and Assessment this week!

MATH

*Unit 9 Measurement
*Identify the area of given shapes in square units
*Dabble into capacity and equivalent measurements
*Weight comparisons
*Time Tests continue ~ weekly practice
~Pre-test Monday; Post-test Friday (unless 98-100 on pretest)
~Goal is three seconds per problem

DAILY 5
*Mini-Lesson: Recording the beginning, middle and ending of stories
*Daily 5 routines
*Guided Reading groups

SCIENCE
*Weather Unit
*Recognize clouds as a part of the water cycle
*Identify and describe three types of clouds: cirrus, cumulus and stratus
*Describe the events of the water cycle
*Name tools used measure weather and their function
*Research extreme types of weather in small groups

WRITING
*Continue short story writing unit
*Listen to stories that have strong characters
*Begin to write about a character of their own creation
*Practice handwriting, spelling, capital letters and ending punctuation