Reading/

Language Arts

Unit 6 will teach us about Whole-Number Operations and Number Stories!

We will review earlier work with addition and subtraction, and begin more formal work with multiplication and division. Unit 6 has three main areas of focus: to introduce and practice array models, to review strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems, and to develop procedures for multiplication and division problems.

This month, we will start fresh in our fifth Reading Street Unit. The stories we will read in Unit Five include: Fire Fighter, Carl the Complainer, Bad Dog, Dodger!, Horace and Morris but Mostly Delores, and The Signmaker's Assistant. These stories provide a variety of genres for our readers to explore such as Literary Nonfiction, Realistic Fiction, and Fantasy. The reading skills we will focus on throughout this unit are distinguishing between fact and opinion, cause and effect, plot and theme, character and setting, and determining main idea and details. We will also discover pronouns as our conventions skills throughout the unit.

"March comes in like a lion, and out like a lamb!" Students will use this special idiom to construct lion and lamb narrative writing pieces, describing if they are more like lion or lamb weather! Students will also create an autobiography telling about their past, present, and future selves. We will be so excited to become young authors, and publish this writing piece into our very own autobiography book!

Our second graders have been introduced to the basic concepts of cursive writing, and have begun to learn how to form letters! We are learning one letter each day, and complete a follow up practice page in our handwriting book. Ask your child to show you the letters we have learned so far!