Welcome to Ms. Bridgette David's Classroom!

• Identify and use antonyms.
• Planning- use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas.
• Nouns (singular and plural)
• Identify the subject and predicate of simple sentences.
• End punctuation
• Spell words commonly found in second grade texts.
• Continue to identify and count the number of syllables in a spoken word.
• Read words derived from word families (e.g., -it, -at, -ite, -ate).
• Use common spelling patterns to make new words (e.g., make, take, lake, cake, etc.)
• Identify and use synonyms.
• Text features-titles, headings, captions, illustrations, graphs, charts, etc
• Parts of a book-title page, title, author, illustrator, table of contents, glossary, etc.
• Text structures- description, sequential order, simple cause/effect, etc.
• Genres- fiction, nonfiction, poetry

• Nouns (e.g., common, proper)

• Periods in common abbreviations (e.g., titles of address, days of the week, months of the year

• Colons (e.g., in notation of time)

• Capitalization (e.g., first word in a sentence, proper nouns, days of the week, months or the year, holiday, titles, initials, the pronoun “I”

• Analyze sentences to determine purpose (e.g., declarative/telling, interrogative/question, exclamatory/strong feeling, imperative/ command or request)

• Recall addition and subtraction facts.
• Explain, analyze, and extend repeating and growing patterns.
• Analyze and generalize the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction.
• Select appropriate tools and units for measuring length, weight, and capacity.
• Read and write time to the hour using digital and analog clocks.
• Read and write time to the half-hour.
• Use the calendar to determine past and future days.
• Compare three-digit numbers using the terms “before,” “after,” and “between.”

• Time to the nearest hour, half-hour (using digital and analog clocks)
• Collect and display technological products (zipper, coat hook, ceiling fan pull chain, can opener, bridge, apple peeler, wheel barrow, nut cracker, etc) to determine their function.
• Infer that science investigations generally work the same way in different places.
• Categorize different types of Earth materials (e.g., rocks, minerals, soils, water, atmospheric gases).
• Describe the three layers of the Earth.
• Model and explain the concept of Earth's rotation as it relates to day and night and infer why it is usually cooler at night than in the day.
• Describe the characteristics and effects of objects in the universe.     1)Position of the sun in relation to a fixed object on Earth at various times (day and night).  2)The major characteristics pf planets (revolution and rotation periods, size, number of moons). 3)Changes in the apperance of the moon.

Language Objectives for Quarter 2:

• Identify and create compound words
• Identify and use homonyms.
• Answer literal and simply inferential who, what, when, where, why, how and what if questions
• Identify main idea and some details in narrative text or topic and some details in informational text.
• Identify simple facts and opinions.
• Arrange in sequential order a listing of events found in narrative/informational text
• Verbs (helping verbs, irregular)
• Verb tense (conjugation and purpose for past, present, future)
• Pronouns (subject pronouns, singular pronouns, plural pronouns)
• Blend and segment spoken words into syllables and syllables into phonemes.
• Use inflectional endings (e.g., -s, -es, -ed, or –ing) to produce or analyze new words.
• Identify and create contractions correctly.
• Answer literal and simply inferential questions about main characters, setting, and events.
• Answer literal and simply inferential questions about characters’ actions, motives, traits, and emotions.
• Identify simple causes and effects.
• Draw conclusions based on information from narrative/informational text.
• Recognize or generate an appropriate summary or paraphrasing of events or ideas in text, citing text-based evidence.
• Retell a story orally and in writing including characters, setting, problem, important events, and resolution.
• Drafting- begin to transfer thoughts from graphic organizers or generate and organize ideas.
• Revising- begin to revise sentences/paragraphs for organization, to add details, and to clarify ideas.
• Editing- edit for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
• Publishing/Sharing- publish writing by displaying, retelling, and/or reading written ideas.
• Compose a descriptive text containing specific details.
• Nouns (e.g., possessive)
• Adjectives (e.g., possessive, comparative, superlative)
• Prepositions
• Apostrophes (e.g., contractions, possessives)
• Compose declarative/telling, interrogative/question, exclamatory/strong feeling, imperative/command or request.

Math Objectives for Quarter 2:

• Read and write time to the hour, half-hour, quarter hour, and five-minute intervals using digital and analog clocks. 
• Tally, record, interpret, and predict outcomes based on given information.
• Identify place value of a given digit in a four-digit number.
• Determine and compare the value of money up to $5.00 using the appropriate symbols for dollars and cents.
• Identify and model even and odd numbers.  Explain reasoning.
• Recognize and identify polygons (rhombus, square, triangle, trapezoid, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, and decagon) according to the number of sides.
• Use manipulatives or grid regions to show perimeter and area of squares and rectangles.
• Select appropriate tools and units to estimate and measure length to the nearest inch, foot, yard, centimeter, and meter.