Download 2 nd grade musical

2nd grade-Room 16-MISS mIK
Important Dates:
Corrected end of trimester:Friday, march 6
SCHOOL IS IN SESSION: MONDAY, MARCH 2
2nd grade musical: Thursday march 12
SPRING BREAK: MARCH 30-APRIL 6
reading
Finish Non-Fiction Texts continued:
-wondering what the author of a
nonfiction text is trying to teach us
-comparing and contrasting texts
about the same topic
Begin fairy tales, folktales, and fables
Science
MATH
Word Wall
words
Writing
-researching about the rain forest
-magnets continued with Mrs.
Carlson
Finish Unit 4: Geometry
-partitioning shapes
*Following directions and
reading all the questions before
answering*
Unit 4 Assessment will be
Thursday, March 5 and Friday,
March 6
-should
-would
-each
-could
-very
-everyone
-adding details to help reader
understand the topic
-using transition words to make the
writing “flow” (for example, another,
next, also, then)
Vol. 2 is. 8
Weekly newsletter for
March 2-6 2015
Math Vocabulary:
Polygon: closed shape that has at least
3 angles and sides, always has same #
of sides and angles
Triangle: closed shape, 3 sides and
angles, straight sides
Quadrilateral: closed shape, 4 sides
and angles, straight sides, polygon
Pentagon: closed shape, 5 sides and
angles, polygon, straight sides
Hexagon: closed shape, 6 sides and
angles, straight sides, polygon
Trapezoid: quadrilateral that has at
least 1 pair of parallel
sides
Our
lima beans!
Parallelogram: quadrilateral that has 2
pairs of parallel sides
Rhombus: quadrilateral with 4 equal
sides
Rectangle: quadrilateral with 4 square
corners
Square: quadrilateral, special
rectangle with sides that are all the
same length.
Angle: where 2 sides meet
Parallel: lines that never
intersect/cross
Horizontal: side to side
Vertical: up and down
Square corners: 90 degree angle