I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!
Reading- This week students will continue working on finding text features in nonfiction texts. We will be going over titles, headings, timelines, table of contents, photographs, subheadings, captions, diagrams, labels, charts, tables, maps, bold/highlighted/italic words, textbox/sidebars, bullets, glossaries, and indexes. Students will identify how these text features help them better understand a text. Students will be looking for examples of these text features in our social studies books and in informational texts they read. Homework for this week will be sent home on Monday, October 29th and due Friday, November 2nd. Grammar- Students will learn how to identify the subject and predicate of a sentence. The subject is who a sentence is talking about and the predicate explains what the subject is doing in the sentence. Example: The girl (subject) road her bike to school (predicate). Spelling – Students will receive a new spelling list for sorts 13, 14 and 15 to put in their purple folder. Students will concentrate on the contraction spelling patterns in Sort 13 this week. Our spelling quiz on these three sorts will be on Friday, November 16th. Writing- Last week, we finished our narrative writing unit. This week, we will begin our informative writing unit where students introduce a topic, develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details, and use linking words and phrases to connect ideas within categories of information. Students will also provide a concluding section. Informational essays will include 5 paragraphs: an introduction to the topic, 3 paragraphs explaining the 3 big ideas or subtopics that support their topic, and a conclusion. This week we will focus on writing an introduction, brainstorm subtopics and appropriately order subtopics in our writing. Social Studies- We are beginning our unit on European Exploration in North America. We will be discussing why there was a need for exploration, and introducing the explorers Christopher Columbus (Spain), John Cabot (England), Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Spain) and Jacques Cartier (France). During this unit, students will be learning about 6 different explorers and how they adapted, or failed to adapt to the various physical environments they traveled, as well as their accomplishments, and cooperation and conflict with the Native Americans. Reminder: Dolvin cannot accommodate lunch visitors from October 29th- November 1st as 2nd grade prepares for their musical on November 1st. Important Dates: October 29: Spelling Sort 10,11,12 Quiz October 31: Last day of “Socktober” sock collection November 1: Sign and Return Papers November 2: Spirit Day November 6: No school (Election Day) Have a wonderful week!
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