Sunny Second Grade
MATH
Probability: http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/more-less-equally-likely
Slide Flip Turn: http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/flip-turn-and-slide
2nd Grade Math Skills: http://www.softschools.com/grades/2nd_grade/math/
Math Brain Board Game: http://www.funbrain.com/brain/MathBrain/MathBrain.html
3D Shape Matching http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/longshape3d.html
FunBrain Math Games: http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill_s.cgi?A1=selects&A2=math&A4=0&A7=0
Math
Continue to review your addition and subtraction facts and of course the "Doubles Rap."
1 + 1= 2 "oooo"
2 + 2 = 4 "more"
3 + 3 = 6 "kicks"
4 + 4 = 8 "that's great"
5 + 5 = 10 "Amen"
6 + 6 = 12 " That's swell"
7 + 7 = 14 "Let's Lean"
8 + 8 = 16 "That's keen"
9 + 9 = 18 " jelly bean"
10 + 10 = 20 "that's plenty"
Writing/Social Studies/Science Themes
September:
*Writing Friendly Letters (heading, greeting, body, closing, signature)
*Apples (using our senses to describe, comparing Johnny Appleseed stories, seasons of the apple tree, beginning note taking, using notes to write descriptive sentences)
October:
*Christopher Columbus (sequence/timeline, journal entries)
*Weather (properties of water, water cycle, types of clouds)
*October Writing Prompt (completing a planner and a draft)
*Fire Safety
*Pumpkins (growth cycle, rhyming & cinquain poems, Guess What's in My Pumpkin clues)
*Halloween
November:
*Veteran's Day
*Traditions & Thanksgiving (Mayflower, Pilgrims, Native Americans)
December:
*Light (artificial/natural, travels in straight lines, reflections, transparent/translucent/opaque)
*Festival of Lights/Winter Holidays (holiday customs from around the world)
January:
*Animals in Winter (how they prepare - migrate, hibernate, adapt)
*Birds (identifying common winter birds, listening and note taking)
*Martin Luther King, Jr. (note taking, sequencing events, character traits)
*Chinese New Year
*Winter Listening Prompt - (note taking, comparing two types of animals)
February:
*Groundhog's Day
*President's Day (note taking, timelines, using notes to form a written response)
March:
*St. Patrick's Day (listening, note taking, using notes to write a descriptive paragraph with a topic sentence and supporting details)
*Sound unit (vibration, volume, pitch, man-made/natural)
April:
*Oviparous animals
*Seeds & Plants (seed parts, germination, parts and jobs of plant, how seeds travel)
May:
*Animals (classes, biomes, multi-week research report project - book and computer research)
June:
*Continue work on Animal Research Report