Welcome to Mrs. Metzler's 2nd Grade Class 

 

Reader’s & Writer’s Workshop:

 

April is National Poetry Month and the second graders will become poets creating their own types of poetry during our Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop. Children are learning how some poems can rhyme following an AABB format or an ABAB format and how some poems may not rhyme.  They have learned that the lines in a poem are called a stanza. Poems can be funny or not funny.  

 

Our poets will create rhyming poems, cinquains, alliterations, and haikus.

 

Cinquains:  nouns, verbs, adjectives

 

Alliterations:  same beginning letter for each word in the poem

 

Haiku:  Japanese poetry based on syllables (5-7-5 format)   

 

Word Study/Fundations

*Unit 12: oi/oy

*Unit 13: Long o spelled oa/oe

*Unit 13: Long o spelled ow

*Unit 14: /ou/ as in south

 

Math

*Topic 10: Add Within 1,000 using Models and Strategies

*Topic 11:  Subtract Within 1,000 using Models and Strategies

*Using the Envision math program

 

Science/Social Studies/Life Skills/Health

*Solar Eclipse

*Needs of living and non-living things

*Plants Unit

*Animal Adaptations

*Earth Day

*Reduce, Reuse, Recycling

*Scholastic News

 

Important Dates for April:

 

Monday, April 22- 

Earth Day- Wear green and blue

2nd Grade Goes Green Special Event

 

Thursday, April 25- Take Your Child to Work Day

 

 

 

 REMINDERS:  

 

CHECK YOUR CHILD’S AGENDA DAILY FOR HOMEWORK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS OF TESTS 

 

PLEASE EMPTY HOMEWORK FOLDERS EACH NIGHT

 

CONTINUE TO REPLENISH SCHOOL SUPPLIES

 

 

Mrs. Metzler’s email address:  [email protected]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please check the Homework Information drop-down menu for more of an explanation on homework assignments or email me if you have any questions.  [email protected]