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October 31-November 4 Reading:

I:\All Staff\Grade 2\Curriculum\Reading\Enormous Turnip

Continue Helping Out 10/26-11/3 I:\All Staff\Grade 2\Curriculum\Reading\Helping Out

Learning Target: Learning Target:I can tell the Main Idea of a passage or story Focus Strategy: I can use decoding and phonics to figure out new words *Vocabulary *building background *Sharing Literature *KWL on helping out *Guided reading *Grammar: I can identify plural nouns *Think and Respond questions page 186/ TTQA * Extended response *watch video clip on discovery ed to show glass blowing *students use post its in the books to add speech bubble for what the people in the picture might be saying to one another *Scavenger hunt <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*leveled readers <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Helping Out is Cool on Tumblebooks.com <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*test

Begin Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly the Plane 11/4-11/14 I:\All Staff\Grade 2\Curriculum\Reading\Mr. Putter Learning Target: I can make a prediction Focus Strategy: I can look at word parts to understand unknown words

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Vocabulary <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*building background <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Sharing Literature <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Guided reading <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Use prediction door Smart board to have students practice predicting. Then students can create their own prediction doors. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Make predictions while reading other Mr. Putter stories <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Use Predict & Check page 15 First Graphic Organizers book <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Grammar: I can use irregular plural nouns. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Think and Respond questions page 216/ TTQA <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* Extended response <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Scavenger hunt <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*leveled readers <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*test

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Flooding: ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Intervention time: ** Math: use excel sheet to find skills that need to be reviewed <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">Spelling: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lesson 9 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">I can spell -our words.

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 19px;">Math: 3.5 I can gather data, enter it in a table and create a bar graph. 3.6 I can solve frames and arrows with 2 rules. 3.7 I can make change by counting up. 3.8 I can solve multi step coin problems. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Writing: I:\All Staff\Grade 2\Curriculum\writing\paragraphs (there are some organizers and smartboards for types of paragraphs and parts of a paragraph)

Finish Paragraph writing*ideas and purpose for writing a paragraph (types of paragraphs) Ideas-describing paragraph using senses on pumpkin/candy corn comparing paragraph-comparing yourself to a friend narrative paragraph-field trip
 * identify parts of a paragraph (on smartboard, use National Geographic to highlight topic sentence, identify details and the closing statement)
 * use an organizer to plan a paragraph
 * draft
 * revise/edit
 * publish

Begin Letter Writing (Immersion) -First Year Letters (Danneberg), NIce Try Tooth Fairy (Olson), Plantzilla (Nolen), Dear Mr. Henshaw (Cleary), I Wanna Iguana (Orloff), The Jolly Postman (Ahlberg), Don't Forget to Write (Selway)
 * Read materials that include letters
 * Flat Stanley introduction

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 24px;">Soc Studies:
 * continue pioneer unit
 * Our Country Long Ago- Unit 5 Social Studies
 * Pioneer DVD's
 * Westward Expansion using timeline

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">SEL Targets:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">I can listen to other people’s ideas
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">I can make positive choices when working with others.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">I can identify ways to work and play well with others.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">I can follow directions
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">I can manage my behavior.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Notes: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">*Grades due 10/26; report cards sent home Friday <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">*IPI walk through Oct 26 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">*Field trip rescheduled for 10/31 (fingers crossed for sunshine!) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">*Spirit Assembly 11/3 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">*Parent/teacher conferences coming up November 9 (4:30-8:00) and November 10 (8:00-3:00 and 4:30-8:00) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">*No School November 11

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">*4 hours of "summer hours" to revamp unit adding 21st century and SEL

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Due: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">SMART goals: October 19 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">PDP: October 21 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">LMC: Can we please have a bin of Mr. Putter books to go along with our predictions and Harcourt Story? As well as any of the books listed in writing that we could use to introduce letter writing. Thank you!!!