Welcome to 2nd Grade
Back to School Night 2015/2016
What's 2nd Grade All About?
Second grade is a year of tremendous growth both academically and socially. I will provide opportunities for individual success while focusing on building self-awareness and independence and increasing academic rigor. Socially, students will grow through small group collaboration; while at the same time, opportunities to problem solve will allow students to build autonomy and gain academic independence.
What to look forward to...
- Personalization
- Writing Workshop
- Reading Groups
- Math Centers
- Fun and Meaningful Projects
- Kind Club
- STEM Projects
- First in Math
- Technology - iPads, Innovation Room
- Community Service
- Project Based Learning
A Day in the life of a 2nd Grader
8:30-8:45 Morning Work
8:45-9:00 Pride Time
9:00-9:10 Morning Meeting
9:10-10:00 Writing
10:00-11:00 Reading
11:00-12:00 Math
12:00-1:05 Recess and Lunch
1:05 - 1:15 Independent Reading Time
1:15-2:15 Science/Social Studies
2:15 -3:15 Specials
3:15-3:30 Vocabulary
3:30-3:45 Pack up and End of Day Meeting
What Will We Learn?
Language Arts
- Reading Strategies
- How to ask and answer questions about what we have read
- How to respond to reading
- Reading fluency
- How to choose "Just Right" books
- How to summarize what we have read
Math
- Addition and Subtraction with regrouping
- Telling time
- Measurement
- Place Value
- Touch on Multiplication
Science and Social Studies
- Past and Present
- Mapping Skills
- Continents and Oceans
- Solar System
- Landforms
- STEM - designing a bridge
Word Study
- Weekly spelling words
- Friday tests
- Weekly homework
- Center activities
Homework
- Monday- Thursday
- Assignments written in Assignment book each night
- All homework is due the following day
- Monthly Book Reports
Positive Behavior
Gold Tags
- Students earn gold tags for making good choices throughout the day
- Students are rewarded with Fun Friday
- Gold Tags start fresh each week
Kind Club
- Collaboration with 3rd grade
- Random acts of classroom and school wide kindness
- Kind Critters
- Meet every other week
What a great message!
"Chalkin' the Walk"
The smile says it all!
Morning and Afternoon Meetings
- Whole class meetings
- Daily
- Greetings
- Conversations/Questions/Games
- Builds Classroom Community