2nd Grade - Language Arts

• All Sorts of Rocks
  In this lesson, students access their prior knowledge of sorting with a card sort and a book before being asked to apply their understanding of sorting to rocks. This will help students understand the concepts of hardness, texture, layering, and particle size as they relate to rocks.
• Circle the Wagons a Number is Missing
  Students have an opportunity to work in pairs as they search for the missing addend that will complete a mathematical sentence. Students will demonstrate the ability to change the order of the addends and still produce the same sum.
• Grandma Thinks It's Cake Baking Weather
  This activity uses Patricia Polacco's book "Thunder Cake" to help students understand how daily life has changed over the past 150 years.
• It's a Fact!
  This lesson contains many student activities to help students master addition and subtraction skills.
• Numbers Away
  This lesson provides a compilation of activities for several subtraction strategies that may be used throughout the year.
• Subtraction-Strategies in Action!
  The small group activities in this plan help students learn to solve subtraction problems.
• What's Your Function?
  Students are presented with conditions that will require the ability to make sense of a mathematical situation with missing information. They will recognize that some function has taken place and their assignment will be to figure out what it was.

• My Piece of History
  In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students examine pictures of household objects from the late 20th century, gather historical information about them from older family members, and then create an in-class exhibit of historical objects from their own homes.
• What's the Difference? Beginning Writers Compare E-mail with Letter Writing
  Students will compare an e-mail message and a letter on the same topic and discuss how they are written differently and why; recognize differences in the form and function of the two genres and how these differences impact communication style and conventions; develop their understanding of the choices they must make as writers with respect to the appropriate form, function, and audience for different kinds of communication.