Second Grade Blizzard Bag Day 2 Math Objectives: Fluently add and subtract within 20. Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. 1. Practice math facts for 20 minutes using either flashcards or by logging onto your Student Access Fast Math Stretch account. 2. On a blank sheet of paper, show at least 5 different ways to make the number 45. (Examples include pictures, addition and subtraction equations, story problems, place value, etc.) 3. On the back of the paper from step 2, create 5 addition equations with a sum within 100 using place value strategies to solve. (One example problem 75 + 25=100, 70+20=90 (add the tens) and 5+5=10 (add the ones), so 90+10=100) What to bring back to school: Bring back the paper with ways to make 45 and addition equations. Parents please sign this paper verifying your child completed either Fast Math or Flashcard Fluency. English Language Arts Objectives: Know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. 1. Read a chapter book, newspaper or magazine article located in your home or library for 20 minutes. 2. Write a paragraph (4 sentences or more) describing details that answer 3 of the following questions: Who are the characters in the text? What was the text about?
Where and when did the story take place? Why did the character say or do what they did? How did the character feel at the end of the story? 3. Please read the following passage, The Tiger Story, for one minute three times. The goal is to increase how many words they read per minute. The Tiger Story In the jungle a very large, striped cat sneaks up on a deer. Then it leaps. The deer gets away. The tiger does not chase its prey. It just looks for something else to eat. Tigers are the world s biggest cats. One tiger can eat 9 to 15 pounds of meat a day. Tigers like living in thick forests or places with tall grass. They usually live alone. Tigers do not live in groups like lions do. The only time you would see a group of tigers is when a mother tiger has cubs. Cubs stay with their mothers for about two years. But getting a peek at a tiger with cubs in the wild is now a rare event. There are not too many tigers left. Today, twice as many tigers live in zoos as in the wild. Not enough wild places remain for them to live. What to bring back to school: Bring back the paragraph about your text. Parents please sign this paper verifying that your students read for 20 minutes and completed the fluency passage.
Science Objectives: To understand that some kinds of animals that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared, although they were something like others that are alive today. 1. Go to Google, type in fossils, click on images and view the examples of Fossils. 2. Read the fossil article attached. 3. Imagine that an exciting new fossil has been found. You are the newspaper reporter given the job of writing about the find. Fold a white sheet of paper in half. At the top of the paper illustrate or draw what the fossil will look like. At the bottom of the page write a paragraph about the discovery. Be sure to answer the following questions. a. What was found? b. Who found it? c. Where was it found? d. When was it found? e. Why is it an important discovery? Fossils With each fossil find, we learn more about ancient life on Earth. But, what are fossils? And how are they formed? Fossils are hardened remains of animals or plants that lived millions of years ago. They lived long before there were any people on our planet. Scientists study these fossils to find out about ancient life. Fossils of both land and sea life have been found. After an animal or plant died, its soft parts decayed. The hard parts remained lying on the ground. Some of the hard parts were covered with sand, dirt, or mud. Over millions of years, minerals seeped in. They took the place of the bones or other parts. What was left was a fossil in that same shape.
The largest fossils are the dinosaurs. There are fossils of whole skeletons. There are fossils of nests of dinosaur eggs. Teeth, footprints, and prints of skin have all been found. Scientists called paleontologists study fossils to learn about prehistoric life. Paleontologists spend all of their time studying fossils. They go on field trips to collect fossils. They study the rocks where fossils are found. Each new fossil discovery adds to our understanding of what Earth was like in prehistoric times. T-Rex found in South Dakota Desert In 1990 fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson made a big discovery in the South Dakota desert. She found the fossil of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It is the largest, most complete skeleton found so far. Scientists estimate it would stand 13 feet tall at the hip. It would have been 41 feet long. The fossil even showed the dinosaur s last meal. It was a duck-billed dinosaur! The fossil appears to be 67 million years old. The fossil is on permanent display at Chicago s Field Museum.
What to bring back to school: Please bring back the sheet of paper with the illustration and paragraph about your fossil. Social Studies Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of maps and their symbols 1. Today you will create a map of your bedroom. Students need to include all five parts of a map: 1. Title 2. Map Key 3. Symbols 4. Compass Rose 5. Labels
Here is an example of a map to show what I expect: What to bring back to school: Please bring back the map of your bedroom.