Second Grade Discovery Advanced
Second grade Discovery Advanced will meet three days a week for about 40 minutes. Students will be pulled out of class during a time that is least disruptive. For second grade this will be during reading class time on Monday, during writing class time on Wednesday, and during math center time Thursday. Discovery on Monday is reading, Wednesday is writing (first semester) / science (second semester) and Thursday is math. The concepts taught and homework assigned will be on Ren Web. Please check weekly to find out what we are learning and what homework was assigned. Homework assigned is due the following week on the day that the subject re-occurs.
Every month a menu of projects and activities will be given. This will be given out at the beginning of the month and due at the end of the month (unless otherwise posted in Ren Web.) There are nine projects/activities to choose from and students have to complete 7 for an A+, 6 for an A, 5 for a B, and 4 or less will not be accepted. (Students will need to keep working until completed.) The projects should each be completed on full sheets of separate paper or construction paper either hand written or typed and stapled as a booklet. A cover page with the student's name and title should be included. Work should be completed to the best of the student’s capabilities, and as creative as possible!
Here are some of the concepts your child will be discovering:
READING: Poetry books - fluency, oral presentation, description, author’s techniques
Stone Fox - realistic fiction, character traits and motivations, consequences
Chocolate Touch - fantasy narrative, predict, analyze, evaluate, summarize
Night of the Magicians - historical fiction, cause/effect, main idea, check & confirm
Science Readers - non-fiction text structure, main idea, supporting details
WRITING: Poetry – five senses poem, adjectives, exaggeration poem
Legend – story structure, character undergoes a change
Informational – weather report
MATH: Skip counting and repeated addition as a basis for multiplication facts
Models for multiplication and the multiplication algorithm up to 4-digit by 3-digit with partial products
Division models and long division by a 1 digit divisor
SCIENCE: water cycle: precipitation, water runoff, percolation, water table, evaporation, condensation, *types of precipitation,
seasons, Celsius and Fahrenheit, condensation, humidity, dew point, formation of clouds, types of clouds, weather front,
weather vane, compass, thermometer, anemometer, force wind plays in flying a kite, storm, thunder, lightning,
tornadoes, hail, reading and hands on experiments, scientific method including lab write-ups
Please view the WEBSITES tab for links to online math / reading concepts and games.