Mrs. Gracia - 2B
dgracia@stdomschool.org
October Happenings in Second Grade
Important dates:
10/6 Early dismissal . . . $2 Donut Day
10/6 Progress reports . . . please sign and return
10/9 Columbus Day . . .no school . . . go out and explore new things
10/10 Renaissance testing begins
10/17 Confirmation . . . early dismissal day
10/18 School closed for Faculty and staff spirituality day
10/20 Native American project information going home in Friday folder
10/24 Picture day!
10/31 Halloween parade, 1pm
10/Picture Day!
10/ Early dismissal
10/ Columbus Day . . .no school . . . go out and explore new things
10/ Progress reports . . . please sign and return
10/ Native American project information going home in Friday folder
10/ 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
Understand climate, location, and physical surroundings affect how people live
Colonies, pilgrims, independence
American revolution and George Washington
Lewis and Clark
Slavery, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas
Civil war Abraham Lincoln
Good citizenship skills
How English settlers and Native American people traded goods
Settlement patterns due to weather, natural resources, and seasons
Using a map scale
Using maps to obtain information
Understand national celebrations such as Independence Day
Individualism and freedom and how symbols show that
Historical figures such as Paul Revere, Sojourner truth, and how they influenced the nation
Time lines
How science and technology have changed transportation
Science:
Changing Matter
Heating and cooling matter
Reversible and not reversible
How to observe change
Temperature
Making things from different types of matter