This Week's Learning Goals

Grade 2 Learning Goals

(Week of Nov 28th-Dec 2nd)

Language:

• proofread and correct their writing using a simple checklist or a few guiding questions developed with the teacher and posted for reference
• Identifying parts of a letter (heading, greeting, body, closing, signature)
• Writing friendly letters to specific audiences
• establish a personal voice in their writing, with a focus on using familiar words that convey their attitude or feeling towards the subject or audience

Math:

• represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 100 (e.g., ten frames, base ten material, hundreds chart, number line)
• compose and decompose two-digit numbers in a variety of ways, using concrete materials (e.g., place 42 counters on ten frames to show 4 tens and 2 ones)

Social Studies:

• identify continents, significant bodies of water, the equator, poles, and hemispheres, using a globe
• identify cardinal directions on a map (i.e., N, S, E, W), and use these directions when locating selected countries
• demonstrate an understanding that there are a variety of countries, continents, physical features, and bodies of water around the world and that their locations can be represented in different ways (map, digital/interactive maps, globes)

Upcoming assessments:

Language:  

Looking at friendly letters and using editing skills to check their own personal letters and letters of their peers

Math:

Making groups of ten using classroom items, adding groups of ten onto numbers and looking for number patterns when adding by 10s.

Social Studies:

Labeling a world map with continents, major bodies of water, hemispheres and cardinal directions.