Welcome to Mrs. Fabick's Class
Some dates to keep in mind for April:
April 17 Rocks and Minerals Quiz
April 17 Spirit Day - Wear your Cold Spring Attire
April 24 Scholastic Book Fair
Reading
For the next few weeks, we’ll be enjoying the theme “That’s Incredible!” As we read about astonishing people, animals, and events, we will learn that the real world can be as incredible as fiction.
During this theme, the children will
• Recognize that fact and fiction can be equally incredible,
• Note details in their reading,
• Identify characteristics of fantasy and realism,
• Distinguish between fact and opinion., and
• Decode phonograms, words with vowel pairs, and base words with endings.
Math – Unit 10
The first part of Unit 10 extends previous work with money and fractions to decimal notation for dollars-and-cents amounts. The second part of this unit extends place-value concepts to 5-digit numbers. Unit 10 has three main areas of focus:
• To review notation and equivalencies for money amounts,
• To provide experiences with comparing prices, estimating costs, and making change, and
• To develop and extend place-value concepts.
Language Arts
We second graders are using a new editing tool – Electronic Spell Checks! Wow, can they make checking our writing for spelling errors an easy job!
We continue to apply all we have learned about punctuation marks, capitalization, and spelling to our daily writing. Using commas and quotation marks will be highlighted this month.
How to paragraphs will be our writing focus.
Social Studies
Maps and globes is our new unit of study. Standards and objectives include:
• explain why objects look different when viewed from different perspectives
• use map symbols and a legend ,
• use relative directional terms ,
• use cardinal directional terms ,
• name and locate their community, state, country, and continent on maps ,
• locate map symbols which represent rivers, highways, cities, lakes, and boundaries ,
• identify differences between maps and globes ,
• locate seven continents and four oceans on a world map ,
• use various maps, such as weather maps, stadium maps, or museum floor plans ,
• identify and draw pictures of the different landforms , and
• locate landforms on United States and world maps.
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