Second Grade January 2020

Readers Workshop

In this unit, “Studying Characters and Their Stories”, second grade students will study characters in books they read. They will learn about characters by paying close attention to the character’s motivation, problems, and how characters change and grow. Students will learn strategies for figuring out unknown vocabulary words and phrases. Students will learn to make inferences and understand the bigger meaning of stories they read. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are:

• Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

• Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

• Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

• Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Writers Workshop In this unit, “Writing Gripping Fictional Stories” second graders will write fictional stories that have detail and suspense. Students will learn to write these stories by making a movie in their mind and by envisioning what will happen in each scene. Students will create tension in their stories by creating problems in which characters must overcome. Students will revise their story by developing characters, adding details, and adding dialogue to highlight important character traits. Students will study mentor authors in order to make their stories better. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are:

• Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

• With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

In the Envision math program, second grade students will be learning how to fluently add and subtract within 100. In this unit, students will learn strategies to add and subtract within 100. They will learn how to break apart numbers and regroup numbers in order to subtract. They will solve these problems using math manipulatives such as base-10 blocks, pictures, and number sentences. The priority standards that will be addressed during this unit are:

• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction. Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one - and two - step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting

together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

• Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

In the unit: “Properties of Materials”, students will answer the question: Can heating an ingredient help to make better glue? Students will be observing a glue ingredient before and after heating and make predictions about what will happen. Students will continue to conduct sticky tests. Students will apply the concept of cause and effect by explaining the effects they are observing.

In this unit titled: “New York City Over Time”, students will evaluate how New York City has changed over time. They will learn about change, by exploring categories such as population, changing communities, homes and buildings, transportation, jobs and industry, technology, and communication throughout the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s.

Important Dates

January 17th - Color Day January 20th - Martin Luther King Day - No School January 24th - Student of the Month January 6th - January 10th - Gifted and Talented Testing

Parent Engagement

School Spirit Students and staff members celebrated crazy sweater day and were very busy working on projects during the month of December.

Congratulations to our students who participated in the Reindeer Run with the morning BOKS Program and students who participated in the Rising New York Running trip to run the finish line of the New York Marathon.

A special thank

you to our P.S. 7 Rising Stars!! Your performance was amazing!!!!!

Student of the Month Congratulations to our students of the month. Their accomplishments were

celebrated during an assembly in December.

Pre K Pk-142 Brandon Sanchez Pk-143 Tahmid Farhan Pk-145 Anahi Canalizo

Grade K K-138 Arun Adikary K-130 Miwang Phuntsok K-119 Shadman Navid K-127 Rajin Araf K-140 Xinbo Huang K-128 Jayla Fernandez K-125 Sakshi Gurung K-245 Jessie Huang K-241 Quintin Lin K-134 Era Ali

Grade 1

1-243 Ayesha Khanam & Tania Velasquez 1-231 Jasmin Ventura 1-247 Pratik Giri 1-220 Samragyi Singh 1-222 Aniqa Nawar 1-249 Alex Tecaxco 1-251 Aiden Koo 1-229 Sonam Wangdi 1-218 Azman Arian

Grade 2 2-335 Jenny Paul 2-337 Chandranshu Chouhan & Kylie Cheng 2-319 Mateo Campos 2-326 Allison Romero 2-327 Alivia Zheng 2-340 Arthur Thu 2-341 Ethan Johnson 2-318 Zimal Usman 2-336 Saunak Bhetuwal

Grade 3 3-48 Safanah Ahmad 3-416 Amy Velasquez 3-417 Jason Lin 3-425 Jocelyn Vega 3-423 Alice Santos 3-410 Fatima Zahra 3-412 Alan Wu 3-430 Anson Cao