Crockett 2nd Grade Newsletter
August 29, 2016
Welcome to 2nd Grade
Reminder the new school start time is at 7:50 am. If students arrive after the 7:50 am bell, they will be considered tardy. The new dismissal time is at 3:20 pm. Parents picking up students, please be patient with teachers and students. Your son or daughter's safety is our number one concern, so we will be outside as soon as we can after 3:20 pm.
Each Take Home Folder has a Behavior Calendar. On this Behavior Calendar, there will be notes on how your child's behavior is doing for that day.
Homework in 2nd grade is to read out loud to an adult for 20 minutes. Parents can fill out reading log on the back side of the Behavior Calendar, in the Take Home Folder.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your teacher via email, ClassDOJO message, or phone call at school.
Our teacher conference time is Monday - Friday from 10:35-11:20.
DAILY SCHEDULE
2nd Grade Class
7:50-9:30 Whole Group Math
9:30-10:35 Whole Group ELA
10:35-11:25 Specials
11:25-11:55 Lunch
11:55-12:25 Recess
12:30-2:20 Small Group/Intervention Time
2:20-3:20 Science/Social Studies/Snack
*Collaboration - Wednesdays 9:35-10:35
Dyslexia 12:35-1:20
Library Check Out - Fridays
Calendar
September 5 - Labor Day - No School
September 7 - 8 am Crockett Volunteer Breakfast in library
September 9 - First Responders Day
September 19 - Student Picture Day
September 21 - Drug Free Wednesday
September 30 - End of the 1st six weeks
English Language Arts
This week we are working on making connections with the stories we are reading. We make connections through text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world.
During the next few weeks, we will be reading Edward the Emu and The Bad Case of the Stripes. You can find these books on YouTube, if you want to watch with your son or daughter.
Skills we will be working on are making predictions, connections, complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation, summarizing (Somebody, wanted, but, so, then), and ABC order.
Students will be writing on a daily basis. We start off with narrative writing. Narrative writing tells a personal or fictional experience or tells a story based on a real or imaginary event.
Math
Social Studies
Science
The first unit of study for science is Classifying Matter. Students are expected to classify matter by physical properties, including shape, relative mass, relative temperature, texture, flexibility, and whether material is solid or liquid. We will then be going into Changes from Heat. Students will be expected to compare changes in materials caused by heating and cooling.