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Mrs. Gaspich - 2A
kgaspich@stdomschool.org
Welcome To Second Grade
October Happenings in Second Grade
Important dates:
10/3 Early dismissal - 1pm
Progress reports . . . please sign and return
Native American project information going home in Friday folder
10/13 Columbus Day . . .no school . . . go out and explore new things
10/14 Renaissance testing begins
10/20 Confirmation . . . early dismissal day, 1pm
10/22 Picture Day - bring your smile!
10/24 School closed for students - faculty Professional Development Day
10/31 Halloween parade, 1:15pm
The following is curriculum being covered in the month of October:
Language Arts:
Short vowel sounds a, o, and u
Long vowel sounds a, o, and u
Predicates
Continue with subjects
Understand inflectional endings s/es
Combine subjects and predicates using “and”
Abbreviations
Improve punctuation and capitalization skills
Use commas in a series
Nouns . . . common, proper, plural, singular, and irregular
Quotation marks
Making predictions
Math:
Subtract 0, 1, 2
Adding and subtracting doubles
Thinking addition to subtract
Making a ten to subtract
Writing stories and number sentences
Modeling tens and ones
Writing number words to ninety-nine
Greater than, less than, equal to
Counting to 100
10 more 10 less
Place value to a two-digit number
Estimating/rounding
Ordering numbers on a number line
Exploring even and odd numbers
Ordinal to the 31st
Patterns
Pictographs, bar graphs
Surveys
Range, mode, median
Line plots
Venn diagram
Social Studies:
Discussing Native American cultures
People. places, and nature
Geographers
Using maps to locate places
Mapgrids/scale
Symbols
Earth, land, and water
Oceans
Landforms
Continents
Globes
When, where, and why people move to a certain place
Migration
Communities and resources
Urban, suburban, and rural
Natural resources
George Washington Carver
Define vocabulary words
Science:
Changing Matter
Heating and cooling matter
Reversible and not reversible
How to observe change
Temperature
Making things from different types of matter
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