Vintage Math, Science and Technology Magnet
15848 Stare Street, North Hills, CA 91343
Learning Resources
Find out what we are learning in Room 25. Also, use any of the links to supplement your child's education and make learning FUN!
Explore what your child is expected to learn in Second Grade by clicking on the Common Core link below:
Benchmark Language Arts:
Unit 7: Investigating the Past
Unit 7 is focused on the past. We will be discussing how understanding the past shapes our future. This unit covers important historical people, events, and discoveries. In Phonics we will talk about compound words, inflectional endings, and related root words. Reading comprehension will focus on prosody, inflection, and intonation. In grammar we will be focused on adjectives and adverbs.
Unit 8: Wind and Water Change Earth
In this unit, we will be exploring the question, "How do we react to changes in nature?". We will be reading about our earth, landforms, and weather anomalies. During phonics we will be working on irregular plural nouns, /er/ and /or/ endings, homographs, comparatives, and contractions.
Unit 9: Buyers and Sellers
This unit and its stories focus on how the goods we make, buy, and sell connect us. We will read about basic economics and how the exchange of goods and services affects the community. In Phonics we will talk about the -y and -ly endings, schwa and irregular plural nouns, and silent letters like: gn, kn, wr, mb. Reading comprehension will focus on using punctuation to help guide our reading speed and understanding.
Unit 10: States of Matter
Unit 6 focuses on how something old can become new. We will read and compare selections about the states of matter and their properties to analyze how matter can change. Phonics will focus on possessives, prefixes, abbreviations, and suffixes. During fluency we will be discussing pitch and varied speed/pacing.
Math
Module 3:
Module 3 focuses on place value, counting, and comparisons of numbers to 1,000. We will be forming base ten units of tens, hundreds, and thousands. We will also be identifying 3-digit numbers using standard, expanded, and word forms. Next we will model base ten numbers within 1,000 using money. Students will then be asked to model numbers within 1,000 using place value disks. We will compare two 3-digit numbers. Finally students will master finding 1, 10, and 100 more or less than a number.
Module 4:
In this unit we will be working with addition and subtraction within 200 with word problems to 100. Students will be asked to find sums and differences within 100. They will also work on strategies for composing and decomposing tens and hundreds.
Module 5:
Module 5 focuses on the continuation of addition and subtraction, but increases to numbers up t0 1,000. We will explore strategies for adding and subtracting as well as for composing tens and hundreds within 1,000.
Module 6:
In this unit, we will learn about the foundations of multiplication and division. We will use equal groups, arrays, and rectangular arrays as a foundation for multiplication and division. We will finish the unit by learning about odd and even numbers.
Module 7:
In this unit, we will learn problem solving with length, money, and data. We will be solving problems with categorical data, as well as with coins and bills. We will finish the unit by learning about odd and even numbers.
Module 8:
In this unit, we will learn about ttime, shapes, and fractions as equal parts of shapes. We will cover the attributes of geometric shapes, composite shapes and fraction concepts. We will also discuss halves, thirds, and fourths of circles and rectangles. Finally, we will use fractions to tell time.
Science: After concluding our unit on Balance and Motion, we will now be focusing on Life Science. Our life science unit will address the animal kingdom and how the animals are classified and categorize within the different subgroups. We will also be exploring and observing mealworms and their life cycle in the classroom. Finally, we will discuss plants and tree and how they grow.
Social Studies:
Chapter 1: Families Long Ago and Today
We will be discussing the essential question, "Why is it important to study the history of families and learn about the past?" The students will explore how we learn about history, such as through primary versus secondary sources. We will explore family units and their traditions around the world, daily life now and then, immigration and the past and present.
Chapter 3: Goods and Services
In this unit we will be discussing economics, more specifically, goods and services. We will cover the differences between wants and need, the definitions of goods and services, the food we eat and how its journey to our table, climate, geography and farming, and farming in the past versus the present.
