Second Grade Newsletter
April 2019
Reading Endorsement Summer Courses
Registration opens in myPGS on May 1, 2019.
Pasco County Schools offers five reading endorsement courses throughout the school year and summer to provide our teachers an opportunity to add the endorsement to their teaching certificate. Click on this link for a list of all courses being offered this summer, their myPGS course number, and details about the dates that the courses run for the summer session. Please email readingendorsement@pasco.k12.fl.us if you have any questions.
Standards Feedback: Make Your Voices Heard!
This is your opportunity to be sure your voice is heard. The state is now asking for additional feedback about our state standards that is more in depth than the original feedback survey. We hope leaders, teachers, and parents have the opportunity to share their thoughts about our state standards.
Click here to create an account and provide your input: https://www.floridastandardsreview.org
Click here of the information on the standards review process:http://fldoe.org/standardsreview
ELA
Throughout Unit 6, learners will understand how commitment and persistence can change the world and how cause and effect relationships of people impact communities. Think about how you will have students build stamina reading texts across levels and engage in collaborative conversations from now until the end of the year.
The focus for writing will be composing opinion pieces. You will use the district opinion writing rubric to score your writing.
Foundationally, learners will apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding multisyllabic words. They will apply flexible phonics strategies to decode and clarify meaning of unknown words and phrases.
Scaffolded Strategies Handbook (SSH)
- Unlock the text (anchor and supporting) by providing scaffolded instruction aligned to the qualitative features.
- Unlock the writing so they can become proficient in writing opinion, informative/explanatory, and narrative pieces. There are also lessons to help students understand the task, how to prepare to write, write, and revise their draft using a task specific checklist.
- Routines and activities to teach phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, grammar, or ways to engage learners in discussions.
Did you know that you have digital access to the 2016 SSH through Pearson Realize? You will find that they have added an Unlock Language Learning section, which is filled with strategies to build background knowledge, provides sample sentence frames for writing and speaking, expands vocabulary and provides sample writing task exemplars.
Formative Assessments
- Selection Tests
- Question Stems
- Formative Assessment Cards
- Formative Assessment Strategies
- Diagnotics Assessments- PAT
- Independent Writing-Formative Assessment call outs
Remember, one of the best ways to truly assess what students know is through writing or speaking.
Additional Resources
The additional articles and videos can be paired with the anchor text, text collection titles, poetry or leveled readers.
Here are a few additional texts:
Videos:
Math
Looking for ways to create the conditions for student conversation? Click here to watch how an elementary math teacher in Anchorage, Alaska creates opportunities for students to share their thinking around the content of the lesson beyond just stating answers and talk and ask questions about each other's thinking, in order to clarify or improve their own mathematical understanding.
Module 7 presents an opportunity for students to practice addition and subtraction strategies within 100 and problem-solving skills as they learn to work with various types of units within the contexts of length, money, and data. Students represent categorical and measurement data using picture graphs, bar graphs, and line plots. They revisit measuring and estimating length from Module 2, but now use both metric and customary units. To learn more about these topics, click here to access the Module 7 Study.
New to Eureka Math? Be sure to join us for our Introduction to Eureka Math session on 4/17/19 from 4:30-6:30 PM. This training will be held at the District Office in Building 2 Mangrove Room. Registration for this session can be found through My PGS under Course #2119 Section #13243.
Science
Social Studies- Celebrate Financial Literacy
April is National Financial Literacy Month which is a great opportunity to highlight the importance of financial literacy and teach our students how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits. To celebrate the month and encourage our students to be financially smart citizens in our communities, Pasco County Schools has several events planned and resources to encourage Financial Literacy Fridays.
Pasco County Schools, in partnership with our valued community partners, is excited to host two Financial Literacy Expo events from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 1st at Marchman Technical College and April 4th at Wesley Chapel High School. These events are designed to help parents/guardians, employees, community members and students with financial planning matters and getting more information for starting a financially successful future. There will be an expo-style event in the dining room/cafeteria showcasing our valued financial experts. There will also be brief informational sessions that we encourage you to attend.
Teachers who attend sessions will be able to earn professional development points and can register through Course # 2559/ Section # 14136 for April 1, 2019 and Section # 14137 for April 4, 2019 within myPGS. Also, we are asking that you encourage your students and their families to attend these wonderful events. We will have a fun and fabulous prize for the school who has the most students who attend.
Please go to the Financial Literacy web page, where you will find:
- a flyer to advertising (printed flyers were delivered to schools for advertisement, as well);
- an FAQ document so that everyone is able to answer parent questions about the events and how to register;
- and, links to register for either the Marchman or Wesley Chapel expo.
To help celebrate the month with lessons, tasks, texts and ideas to spark discussion, please visit:
https://floridafinancialliteracy.weebly.com/
and https://pasco.instructure.com/courses/191744/pages/financial-literacy-month.