Second Grade Interim Work
Week of March 23
Observation Experience:
Go outside, experience, observe and write about something in nature. First, students can write a sentence or two on their own, and then a parent will check the spelling, and then they can do a rewrite. They should also draw a picture to accompany it. (The students have been doing this. They can do this exercise daily.)
This would be good to continue and they could try writing their entries in cursive.
Calendar:
We started making individual calendars. We began with this month, March. They had to make the grid also. They should make a new calendar page for March, as well as ones for February and April. Have them think about upcoming things and remember things from last month, find them on a calendar and label them. They should do a seasonal drawing to accompany each of the calendar pages.
If this went smoothly enough, they could expand out into May and back to January. In class, we played around with Roman numerals in the calendar; they might like coming back to that.
Language Arts:
Make lists of “things” they see in nature and “movements” they see in nature. This exercise is the beginning of the study of grammatical parts of speech. After they finish the list, they can try to put it in alphabetical order.
These lists could become a little dictionary of words they could use for their nature journals. They could keep adding words and put them in alphabetical order and practice “looking up” words that are in their list.
Practice writing the days of the week and months of the year in both print and cursive.
Practice orally and in writing the weekly spelling list:
seven, shall, should, show, sing, sister, sit, six, sleep, small, some, soon.
Word Sorts: Give them the first word and see what words they can come up with using the same letters. hands (as,an,and,has,had,sad,sand,hand) strap (as,at,rat,pat,sat,sap,rap,tap,trap,traps) chimps (is,his,hip,sip,ship,chip,chimp)
Find
practical reasons to practice writing: shopping list, composing letters to family and friends, list of chores to do.
Draw, write and/or model from the audio file story I sent earlier in the week. Shorter writing assignments could be the caption for a related drawing. A longer writing assignment, for those who feel ready, would be to write the entire story over time.
The children could write out of their experience at High & Mighty in conjunction with the information that is in the newsletters.
Math:
Practice the 2,3,4, and 5 times tables as both multiplication and division. They should practice “skip-counting” the numbers and then answer questions orally.
They could make their own “flash cards” of these times tables.
Practice addition and subtraction with three-digit numbers, including borrowing and carrying.
Practice counting coins. They could add up a small pile and also practice different ways to get to a particular sum (i.e. What different combinations of coins would get to 63 cents?)
I had introduced division with a remainder and multiplication of two digits times one digit. I included some practice problems in the most recent packet. These will be less familiar and harder; the children may need more guidance.
Reading:
Continue reading from books of choice.
Children in the early stage of reading should also practice the accompanying text from our play. Ask your child to find a particular word in the text and to spell it aloud.
Children who are ready can read the newsletter from High & Mighty and discuss it with you.
Read about what other children in the class have been doing
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