2nd Grade Common Core Units: Unit 6--Taking Care of Ourselves

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Below you will find the books for Unit 6 from the Common Core Curriculum Map....I'm a little behind with my units, but oh well!  If you want to add these books to your Amazon cart or wish list just click on the cover of the book and it'll zing you right over!!

Informational Books

What Happens to a Hamburger by Paul Showers and Edward Miller

Good Enough to Eat:  A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition by Lizzy Rockwell

The Nervous System by Joelle Riley

The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino and True Kelley

Informational Books to Read Aloud

Muscles:  Our Muscular System by Seymour Simon

The Mighty Muscular and Skeletal Systems:  How Do My Muscles and Bones Work by John Burstein

Bones:  Our Skeletal System by Seymour Simon

Eat Your Vegetables! Drink Your Milk! by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn

The Food Pyramid by Christine Taylor-Butler

I did not link this to Amazon because it said this book costs $899!!!  No way!!

Showdown at the Food Pyramid by Rex Barron

Guts:  Our Digestive System by Seymour Simon

The Digestive System by Christine Taylor-Butler

The Digestive System by Kristin Petrie

The Astounding Nervous System:  How Does My Brain Work? by John Burstein

Have a good one friends!

Common Core Texts for 2nd Grade: Unit 6--Taking Care of Ourselves

Literary Texts

Yoko by Rosemary Wells

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

Gregory the Terrible Eater by Michell Sharmat, Jose Aruego, and Ariane Dewey

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi and Ron Barrett

Dim Sum for Everyone by Grace Lin

Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco

How My Parents Learned to eat by Ina R. Friedman and Allen Say

Everybody serves Soup by Norah Dooley and Peter J. Thornton

Everybody Brings noodles by Norah Dooley and Peter J. Thornton

Stories to Read Aloud

The Magic School Bus Insdie the Human Body by Joanna Cole and Bruce degan

Something's Happening on Calabash Street by Judith Ross

Strega Nona by Tomie de Paola

Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto and Susan Guevara

Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto and Ed Martinez

Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley and Peter Thornton

Everybody Bakes Bread by Norah Dooley and Peter Thornton

My Mom Loves Me More Than Sushi by Filomena Gomes and Ashley Spires

The Sweetest Pig by Chris Van Allsburg

Informational Books

What Happens to a Hamburger by Paul Showers and Edward Miller

The Digestive System by Rebecca L. Johnston

Good Enough to Eat:  A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition by Lizzy Rockwell

The Nervous System by Joelle Riley

The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino and True Kelley

Informational Books to Read Aloud

Muscles:  Our Muscular System by Seymour Simon

Muscles by Kids Discover Magazine

The Mighty Muscular and Skeletal Systems:  How Do My Muscles and Bones Work by John Burstein

Bones;  Our Skeletal System by Seymour Simon

Bones by Kids Discover Magazine

Nutrition by Kids Discover Magazine

Healthy Eating Series by Susan Martineau and Hel James

Eat Your Vegetables!  Drink Your Milk! by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn

The Food Pyramid by Christine Taylor-Butler

Showdown at the Food Pyramid by Rex Barron

Guts:  Our Digestive System by Seymour Simon

Break It Down:  The digestive system by Steve Parker

Digestive System by Cheryl Jakab

The Digestive System by Christine Taylor-Butler

The Digestive System by Kristin Petrie

Brains by Kids Discover Magazine

The Astounding Nervous System:  How Does My Brain Work? by John Burstein

The Nervous System by Christine Taylor-Butler

2nd Grade Common Core Units: Unit 5--Hand Me Down Tales from Around the World

Unit 5 from 

is all about Hand-Me Down Tales from Across the World.  Below you will find the books reccomended for this unit.  I am really excited about this unit coming up because it will be a time to incorporate lots of map skills and even map out the settings and locations for the various books that we will be using!

I hope that you find this useful!

Informational Texts

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes by Ann Morris

On the Go by Ann Morris and Ken Heyman

Loving by Ann Morris and K

Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris and Ken Heyman

Houses and Homes by Ann Morris and Ken Heyman

Informational Books for Read Aloud

If the World Were a Village:  A Book About the World's People by David Smith and Shelagh Armstrong

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusisio

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz

How the Camel Got His Hump in Just So Stories by Rudy

If you can think of any other books or stories that are 'hand me down tales' leave them in the comment area! I would love to see what other teachers are using!

Common Core Curriculum Maps Book Study

Yesterday you might have seen a post by Yvonne at Sassy in Second as she kicked off our Common Core Curriculum Map overview!  If you missed it, you might want to go back and read her post so you know how the book works!

It is time to kick off the Second Grade version of our Common Core Curriculum Map book study for Unit 1!!  Below is a thumbnail of the book.  Many teachers across the country are using this book to make sure that we are all on the same page.  The curriculum map focused on here was developed by the writers of the common core and a team of teachers.  If you want to purchase this book, just click on the book below and go to Amazon.  I suggest getting the book <not the Kindle version> so that you can get the pacing guide that goes along with the curriculum map.

There is very explicit vocabulary that is recommended....or more plainly, specified, to be taught.  The CCSS vocabulary is mapped out in this book also so that it is easy to refer to when teaching.  I expect to keep it very close at hand through the year so that I can make sure that I use this vocabulary when teaching.  This vocabulary is going to have to become common place with our students as we plunge headlong into more and more testing.

So, now, on to the unit!!

Well....this six week unit kicks off the school year....and yes, what is normally a Kindergarten unit is now in second grade.  If you are like me you are wondering (1) Why?  (2) How are we going to implement this?  I can't tell you why, but I CAN give you some ideas on implementation as I have been thinking about this all summer.

So, we are going to 'kick it up a notch'!!

So...we are teaching about the seasons....think of all of the science and social studies that can be taught!

*Rotation

*Revolution

*Weather

*Skin Care/Health

*Proper Clothing

*Maps 

*Survival Skills

*Safety Precautions/Positions

*Goods/Services

*Needs/Wants


On pg 123 of the book, there are recommended interdisciplinary connections:

Art:  Van Gogh, Seurat, Bruegel, Caillebotte, Tiffany
Geography:  both general and specific landforms such as the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Rocky Mountains, among others
Science:  Seasonal cycles, water cycle, solar system

I made you some posters, too!!  You can download them <HERE>!  Graphics were provided by DigiWeb Studios, Scrappin Doodles, and LBDesigns.

But, alas, our focus in the book is on language arts!  The essential question for this is, 'When is language beautiful?'

This is a unit that mixes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to show students that although reading can be a challenge, it can also be beautiful and fun.  Using a mixture of poetry, art (Vincent Van Gogh!!), and music (Vivaldi's The Four Seasons).

The unit emphasizes questioning (all of those W's and H's), strong beginnings and endings of stories, adjectives and adverbs, complete sentences, and shared research.  In the realm of poetry, the unit emphasizes rhythm, rhyme, imagery, repetition, and alliteration.  The non-fiction that is recommended also allows discussion of those all important text features.



One of the poems recommended for use is Nikki Giovanni's "Knoxville, Tennessee."  Seeing how I grew up just 20 minutes from Knoxville, in Clinton, I was thrilled to see this poem in the book!  Since my blood bleeds orange and white for my UT Vols, I typed the poem out for you and used those colors!  

When I read this poem, it truly does take me back into time back to when I was a little girl, running barefoot through the yard or climbing trees to be the 'lookout' for whatever scheme we had cooked up that day!  I can remember going to my parents' friends garden and picking fresh vegetables and canning or freezing in the summers and helping lay out food in the homecoming shed for our church's homecoming.  Homecoming was like no other....we started with our morning service, ate lunch together and all of us kids would play games like 'One, Two Three, Off My Father's Apple Tree' and then we would either sit and listen to more 'pickin' outside, or if it was too hot, go back inside of the church to listen to the 'special singing'.  I love this poem!!

I spent the summer gathering links for all of the exemplar texts and suggested texts for this unit.  If you would like more information about them, feel free to go to my blog and search 'common core books' or 'common core literature' on my blog!

The 'Season for Chapters' unit focuses on these standards from Common Core:

RI2.2, RI2.4, RL2.5, SL2.1 SL2.2, W.2.7


If you have lessons or activities or any science/social studies lessons that support any of these standards/related content, feel free to link up below!

Now....tomorrow you can go and visit my good friend Michelle at Teach123 as she covers Unit 2--The Wild, Wild West!!  That one is going to be fun!

Common Core Texts for 2nd Grade: Unit 1--The Seasons (Fiction)

If you have looked at the curriculum map in the book Common Core Curriculum Maps you may be surprised by some of the titles you see.  The titles that are recommended for second grade teachers to use during the first unit (Seasons) is an interesting mix of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.  In all, if you take a look at the book, you will see a return to the use of 'old stand-bys' of yesteryear as the suggested literature for units shows a return to the oldies-but-goodies such as Alice in Wonderland, Charlotte's Web, Little Women, etc.

There are so many books suggested that I decided that I would break the books for the first unit down to a fiction post and a non-fiction post.  I hope that you find this list and the links to Amazon.com helpful.  At the end you will find my url for my newest board on Pinterest which will house the titles needed for second grade.

Suggested Works to have on hand in 2nd grade:

Poppleton in Winter by Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague

Poppleton in Spring

Poppleton in Fall

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Henry and Mudge and the Snowman Plan by Cynthia Rylant and Sucie Stevenson

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert

Snowballs by Lois Ehlert

Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

The Days of Summer (Eve Buntin and William Low)

Snow (Uri Shulevitz)

Peepers  (Eve Buntin and James Ransome)

Every Autumn Comes the Bear (Jim Arnosky)

The Little Yellow Leaf (Carin Berger)

Read Aloud

The Mitten by Jan Brett

Here is the url for my board:

http://pinterest.com/jennh13/2nd-grade-common-core-literature/

Hope this is helpful.  As always, enjoy!