October Happenings in Second Grade

Important dates:

10/4 Early dismissal - 1pm 

        Progress reports . . . please sign and return

10/7 Renaissance testing period begins

10/14 Columbus Day . . .no school . . . go out and explore new things

10/16 Confirmation . . . early dismissal day, 1pm

10/18 Native American project information going home in Friday folder

10/24 Picture day!

10/31 Halloween parade, 1pm

 

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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