2nd Grade Bear Cub News Mrs. Keese’s Class Week of: Oct. 19-23 mkeese@dentonisd.org Homework We are learning: Math: We will continue our place value unit as we Monday: Write about your culture’s traditions, values, add and subtract numbers up to 200. The students will focus on using base ten blocks, celebrations, food, holidays, family, clothing, and flag. hundred’s charts, and number lines to explore numbers and their value. We will target standard, You could make a tree map chart or decorate a poster written, and expanded notation, brace maps for about the above items. This assignment is due Friday. numbers, and greater than, less than, and equal to. Read guided reader for 20 minutes. Tuesday: Daisy began her day with 53 red balloons. Tulip borrowed 20 of them for her son. How many balloons does Daisy have now? Read guided reader for 20 minutes. Wednesday: Subtract 10 from the numbers 45, 36, 81, 73, We will also continue to work on Problem Solving using our UPSCheck Strategy and Cubes. Science: We will continue our Force and Motion unit. Social Studies: We will continue to study different cultures, arts, customs, and celebrations. Language Arts: We will work on writing about 92, 85. Use a hundred’s chart or concrete models to help special holidays and making connections to texts if needed (text to self, text to text, text to others, text to world, text to media). We will also continue to Read guided reader for 20 minutes. Thursday: Practice your weekly words in your journal. Do your Student of the Week page for William. study, nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Weekly Word Study: -ed and -ing words Sight Words: didn’t, friend, there Friday is PLC Day in 2nd Grade! Field Trip Forms and $ due this Friday. Extra Math Challenge: Sam saw 12 Our teachers are wearing pink all week in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We encourage the children to do the same! pumpkins on the fence and half that many on the ground. How many were on the ground? Student of the Week: William