2nd Grade Newsletter
October 22nd, 2021
Your 2nd Grade Team
Mrs. Allison Karisch
Mrs. Rebecca Wiesemann
Mrs. Kelley Winsett
405-259-9478 ext. 2156
Mrs. Julie Davis
K-2 Reading Interventionist
405-259-9478 ext. 3223Mrs. Clarissa Basora
405-259-9478 ext. 3248
Miss Ashley Ehrhart
405-259-9478 ext. 3321
Ms. Tiffany Furr
Mrs. Jessica Bryant
405-259-9478 ext. 2143
Ms. Karli Davis
Upcoming Events & Important Reminders
October 29th: 1st Quarter Awards Assembly and Fall Festival
October 29th: TGA Written Response due in Seesaw (worth 50 points)
November 1st-5th: Parent Teacher Conferences (Families have been assigned a time if there is something your homeroom teacher must meet with you about. If you have not been assigned a time you can come to open office hours to meet with your teacher.)
November 1st & 2nd: Math TGA in class (worth 60 points)
November 4th: Writing TGA due in Seesaw (worth 100 points)
November 5th: No classes due to conferences
Join your Homeroom Teacher Monday-Thursday for Morning Meeting at 8:45am to get your day off to a great start!
ExactPath — Don’t forget to work on your Math Learning Path 2 hours a week and complete teacher assignments. https://auth.edmentum.com/elf/login
Mindplay — You should be working on Mindplay at least 2 hours a week. You access Mindplay through the OLS course.
PE Update!
Students in grades K-5 must participate in a minimum of 30 minutes of physical education activities per day or a total of 150 minutes per week. The PE lesson asks: Did you complete the required physical activity for today? Choose yes or no.
PE grades will be figured once a quarter based on completing the minimum minutes/lessons of PE in the course. The grading scale for PE is an S for satisfactory and a U for unsatisfactory. If a student does not meet the minimum minutes required, they will receive a U for the quarter.
This change will begin Monday, September 13th. Have fun trying new PE activities this year!
ELA and Social Studies Change
Helpful Tips
- Students with better attendance achieve more success during the school year.
- Make a schedule and get in a routine for your school day. (Here is a template if you'd like one.)
- Make it a point to attend morning meetings at 8:45am each day, even if you have your Class Connect Sessions later in the day.
- Here are some useful tools you might want on hand that can be purchased at Dollar Tree or anywhere: dry erase board, dry erase markers, dice, clear sheet protectors (can also work as dry erase to do work pages on), analog clock, ruler, pencils, paper, folders to organize subjects.
- Check your email everyday! Best practice is to check it at least first thing in the morning and at the end of the day before you log off for the evening.
- Create a quiet learning space that has all your materials easily accessed.
- Schedule Brain Breaks throughout the day. (Here are some great ones!)
- Expect your student to school for 7 hours (give or take) with breaks and lunch.
- Remember that starting out can be difficult but making mistakes is okay. Do not be scared to reach out for help!
What You Can Expect This Year
Fluency
Your child should also be fluent with sight words. We use the Literacy First sight words. Your child should have Sight Word List A (100 words) mastered by the middle of 1st Grade and Sight Word List B (100 words) by the end of the 1st Grade. If they have not mastered these words already, start there! Sight Word List C (300 words) will need to be mastered by the end of 2nd Grade. Click here to access all the sight word lists.
ELA
Reading at least 20 minutes per day is a great way to increase reading fluency. Your child can work on building up their stamina by starting with just 5 minutes. You can also change up your reading space to make it fun and new! Some ideas are: reading outside, build a fort-then read in it, reading during a picnic, or read a book in bed. This website has more creative reading challenge ideas: https://www.ateachableteacher.com/free-reading-challenge/
As they read, help them practice comprehension skills like identifying the main parts of the story including details about characters, setting, beginning/middle/end, etc. They can also read a book and describe the main idea and details about the people, places, and thing in it.
Writing
Math
We will start with number sense and build upon that throughout the year. Fact fluency (up to 20) is a major part of 2nd Grade. We will also work on telling time, money, fractions, and arrays, just to name a few!
Social Studies & PE
Be sure to track your active minutes to count for PE! You will get a survey to fill out periodically to get credit.
Science & History
In Science and History you will complete 2 lessons a week in the OLS.