Ms. Anderson-Bunton - Room 224
225
gandersonbunton@schools.nyc.gov
P.S. 20 / The Clinton Hill School
225 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn 11205
718.834.6744
www.clintonhillsecondgrade.wordpress.com
Ms. Mann/Ms. Catlyn – Room
tmann4@schools.nyc.gov
Note to Parents, please read:
Field Trip: To celebrate the end of testing for grades 3-5 we are having a school wide trip on Thursday, April 30th to see the movie
Monkey Kingdom at Regal Cinemas UA Court Street, 106 Court Street, Bklyn, NY 11201. The trip will cost $11.00 per student and
$11.00 for each chaperone. We will need at least three chaperones per class. Please let your child’s teacher know as soon as possible
if you can chaperone. Students must have a permission slip filled out in order to attend the trip. Please sign and return permission
slips as soon as possible.
Swim for Life Program: See back of HW sheet for details.
Student of the Month Assembly: Second grade will be hosting the Student of the Month Assembly on May 8 th. You are invited to
come see your children host the assembly as well as perform the poem, Second Grade Leaders.
Homework: Parents/Guardians must initial all homework and reading log daily. Students must fill out reading logs themselves. Please
remove all notices and old homework sheets from students’ homework folders once they are read.
Reading
Math
Word / Writing /
Social Studies / Science
Vocabulary
Monday
Read for 20 minutes Complete workbook pages R10.8, and Social Studies: Read page 1 of the social studies handout,
4/27/15
and log.
P10.8.
Dutch West India Company. Answer the following
Practice the
questions:
Second Grade
1. What was the main goal of the Dutch West India
Leaders poem.
Company?
2. What did the company trade?
3. How did the Dutch West India Company know
about the area we call New York today?
4. What did the Dutch name New York when it
claimed it?
Tuesday
Read for 20 minutes Complete workbook pages R10.9, and Social Studies: Read page 2 of the social studies handout,
4/28/15
and log.
P10.9.
Dutch West India Company. Answer the following
Practice the
questions:
Second Grade
1. What did the Dutch settlers focus on instead of
Leaders poem.
farming? Why?
2. What did the Dutch name what we call Brooklyn?
3. The primary occupations were farming, fur trading,
and lumbering. Why do you think those were
important jobs?
Wednesday
4/29/15
REMINDER:
Trip to the
movies
tomorrow!
Read for 20 minutes
and log.
Practice the
Second Grade
Leaders poem.
Reading and Writing Numbers: Create Social Studies: Read pages 2 and 3 of the social studies
five three-digit numbers and one four- handout, Dutch West India Company. Answer the
digit number. For each number write following questions:
them in: standard form, expanded
1. Who did Peter Minuit buy the island of Manhattan
form, and number words. Then draw
from?
base-ten blocks to represent each
2. How was the purchase of Manhattan viewed?
number.
3. Name three Dutch influences we still use today.
Example:
Standard form: 372
Expanded form: 300+70+2
Number word: three hundred seventytwo
Base-ten blocks:
Read for 20 minutes
and log.
Practice the
Second Grade
Leaders poem.
10 More, 10 Less, 100 More, and 100
Less: For each number tell what is 10
more, 10 less, 100 more, and 100 less:
a. 356 b. 620 c. 123
d. 875 e. 439 f. 987
(No swimming
for class 2224)
Thursday
4/30/15
Vocabulary: This week we looked at the Fine Art image,
White Peacock, 1914. We used the following words to
discuss the image: For each word: pair, display, huddle
1. Write the meaning of the word in your own words
2. Use the words in a complete sentence.
3. Underline the word in your sentence.
Friday
Read for 20 minutes Ordering Numbers: Rewrite each set Vocabulary: This week we looked at the Real-World
5/1/15
and log.
of numbers from least to greatest.
image, Tagged Monarch Butterfly. We used the following
Practice the
REMINDER:
a. 234, 376, 127
words to discuss the image: For each word: blurry, barrier,
Class 2-225 has Second Grade
b. 716, 675, 839
wingspan
swimming on Leaders poem.
c. 94, 295, 153
1. Write the meaning of the word in your own words
Monday!
d. 839, 716, 675
2. Use the words in a complete sentence.
Comparing Numbers: Choose any two 3. Underline the word in your sentence.
numbers from each set to compare by
using the > (greater than). < (less
than), or = (equal to) symbols.
Enjoy the Weekend!
ON SWIM DAYS ALL STUDNETS MUST BRING:
•swim trunks or one-piece bathing suit (No two-piece suits allowed)
worn under their clothing on swim days!
•large towel
•flip-flops
•swim cap
•clean, dry underwear (to change into after swimming)
•plastic bag to hold wet swim suits and towels after swimming
•separate swim bag to carry everything
*PLEASE NOTE: Swim days are instructional days. Students will need their
backpacks as well as their swim bags on swim days.