Grade 2
MATH
9/15.
Aim: Teacher will demonstrate the use of make 10 and doubles strategy to find sums.
Vocabulary: Doubles fact
Lesson:
1.The use of counters or dominos to represent addition sentences and identify any doubles fact by decomposing and composing addends.
2.Working in groups to make a poster that displays all doubles facts from 0+0 to 10+10.
3. Quiz page 13-14 and problem solving
4.Class-work: Textbook pages. 17-18
HOMEWORK: Workbook page 5
9/16.
Aim:
Students will extend the doubles strategy and use the doubles plus 1 and doubles minus 1 strategy to find sums.
Vocabulary: Doubles +1/ Doubles-1
Lesson:
1. Distribute counters 10 of each. Children will model numbers and show one more or one less.
2.Problem solving.
3.C.W.: Textbook pages. 19-20
HOMEWORK: Workbook page 7
9/17.
AIM: School closed. Conference day.
9/18. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY!
AIM: Students will collect and analyze water quality from the East and Hudson rivers
LESSON:
1. Test water quality for turbidity, ph levels, and oxygen levels.
2. Record data.
3. Post results on the world wide web to share and compare with other countries or regions
9/19.
AIM: Students will add a column of three numbers.
Vocabulary: Associative Property/ addends/ Commutative property
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Group and add three addends in different ways to arrive at the same sum.
3. Class-work: textbook pages 21-22
Homework: workbook page 8
GRADE: 2 SCIENCE
WEEK OF SEPT. 15
9/15. AIM: Students will explore how scientists investigate and draw conclusions.
Vocabulary: scientific method/ investigate/ draw conclusions
LESSON: 1. Vocabulary development.
2. Read/discuss/take notes on how scientists investigate and draw conclusions.
Text pg. S8, illustration questions from T.E. text.
3. Class-work: Skill Builder #10: Investigate, text pg. R11 (loose-leaf)
4. HOMEWORK: WORKBOOK PAGE 231 (notebook)
9/16. AIM: Students will review the methods and skills scientists use to solve problems.
LESSON: 1. Vocabulary review.
2. Class-work: Skill builder #11: Draw a Conclusion, text pg. R12
Workbook page 232 (loose-leaf)
9/17. SCHOOL CLOSED: CONFERENCE DAY
9/18. WORLD WATER MONITORING DAY!
AIM: Students will collect and analyze water quality from the East and Hudson rivers
LESSON:
1. Test water quality for turbidity, ph levels, and oxygen levels.
2. Record data.
3. Post results on the world wide web to share and compare with other countries or regions
9/19. AIM: Students will measure, using a ruler to recognize centimeter as a standard unit of length.
LESSON: 1. Class-work: Units of measurement and using a ruler, text pgs. R18-R19
