Huddle Newsletter
Second Grade Edition 2014-15
LMSVSD - Welcome Back Second Grade Teachers!
District Resource Teacher Directory:
Assessment - Tracy Olander x6370
BTSA (Regular Ed) - Leah Saunders x6403
BTSA (Special Ed) - Brooke Noble x6420
Cross Curricular CCSS - Ani Asaro x6427
Cross Curricular CCSS - Kristin Gentile x6398
English Learners - Linda Michaud x6306
Language Arts (Elementary) - Tammie Babbitt x6357
Math Resource - Beth Rackliffe x6304
Media Services - Janice Gilmore x6465
Technology - Noelle Suffield x6359
If you need Focus wall materials - contact Nancy Steiger x6387
Did you know?
Everyday Math has a Common Core bridge - the password is CCSS
Instructional Materials Guide
Did you know? The replacement cost of one complete set of Second Grade teaching materials for the four core subjects is $14,133.80!
- teacher editions
- supplemental materials
- manipulatives
- student textbooks
- workbooks
Not sure what something is called or wondering what you're supposed to have? Here are the answers:
California Model School Library Standards
(pages 7-9 of linked document)
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/librarystandards.pdf
Core Literature for Second Grade
Here is the list of Second Grade Core Literature. Each one has a Teacher's Literature Guide that is available for checkout.
1. User name is firstname.lastname
2. Password is teach411
TIPS:
- Make sure you select your school before logging in.
- Make sure you select District Media Services (check the box) instead of your own school library.
- Core literature can be found by entering the keyword search corelit2
Online curriculum resources, logins & passwords
https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com
user name: firstnamelastname
password: teach 411
username: your old district email address (it will still work)
password: you set it yourself, we commended using info411
Have you transferred to a new school? You can change your school yourself from the Games menu
If you need or want to re-register, the registration code is 8332E0A6
Science AND History/Social Science
Pearson's new Online Learning Exchange (OLE) was launched this Fall. This is the new digital path to access all of your Scott Foresman programs. You can activate your account here
Your school code is:49-51-90
Fill in your information and click on Subscriptions to see your resources.
Find time for these five lessons in 2014-15
Privacy & Security
Students explore reasons why people use passwords, learn the benefits of using passwords, and discover strategies for creating and keeping strong, secure passwords.
Relationships & Communication
Students explore the concept that people can connect with one another through the Internet. They understand how the ability for people to communicate online can unite a community.
Information Literacy
Students examine product websites and understand that the purpose of the site is to encourage buying the product. Students learn methods used to promote products on these sites.
Relationships & Communication
Students explore the similarities and differences between in-person and online communications, and then learn how to write clear and respectful messages.
Relationships & Communication
Students learn how to communicate effectively by email, taking into account the purpose and audience of their message, and the tone they want to convey.
Have students take this assessment after you've completed these lessons: UNIT 3 ASSESSMENT
Quick Print Form
Is VHS dead?
Here are the top circulations to second grade teachers in 2013-14:
- Brave Irene
- Chrysanthemum
- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
- The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
- Diary of a Worm
- The Dot
- Harold and the purple crayon
- Giggle, Giggle, Quack
- Gregory, the Terrible Eater
- Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
- Stellaluna
- Weekend with Wendell
Teaching Assignments 2014-15
How to use Destiny
https://destiny.lmsvsd.k12.ca.us
Three resources for you
Read Works
- author's purpose
- cause and effect
- compare and contrast
- fact and opinion
- figurative language
- point of view
- sequence
- vocabulary in context
- voice
- ... and more
Achieve 3000
Username: commoncore.teacher
Password: commoncore.teacher
Benchmark Universe E-Book Library Subscription
Login: new district email address
Password: welcome
- ebooks can be opened on computers or iPads
- you can assign titles to students to read
- lesson plans are available for these titles
- use the books whole class with your projector or on the big screen
- books can be printed for student use
Classroom Libraries
Many teachers like to purchase books for their classrooms that will serve as a mini-library right in their room. These books might be purchased with Scholastic Book Club points, at garage sales, or through discount online sites like amazon.com. Sometimes parents offer to purchase books for your classroom. Here are some recommendations for books that you might consider adding to your classroom library that will balance your fiction with nonfiction and also align with the common core and next generation science standards.
Literary Nonfiction:
Science – Examine literary elements
The Eagles are Back by Jean Craighead George RL 3.2
Hello, Mama Walleroo by Darren Lunde RL 1.9
How the Meteorite Got to Museum by Jessie Hartland RL 3.5
Jimmy the Joey by Susan Kelly RL 2.9
LEGO Man in Space: A True Story by Mara Shaughnessy RL 2.4
The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit’s Amazing Migration by Sandra Markle RL 2.4
My First Day by Steve Jenkins RL 2.4
Social Studies – Add depth to important topics
Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds RL 3.1
Henry and the Hannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution by Don Brown RL 3.3
Jazz Age Josephine by Jonah Winter RL 2.4
Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman RL 3.3
Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson RL 3.5
Noah Webster & His Words by Jeri Ferris RL 2.8
Informational Texts:
Science – Promote critical thinking using charts, connections and diagrams
Animal Hibernation by Jeanie Mebane RL 3.3
Exploring Earth’s Surface by Ronald Granger RL 2.2
Exploring Rocks and Minerals by Greg Roza RL 2.0
How Do Eggs Hatch? by Elena Hobbes RL 1.6
How Do Seeds Sprout? by Evan Rhodes RL 1.5
If You Plant a Seed: And Other Nature Predictions by B. Hoena RL 2.7
True or False? Weather by Daniel Nunn RL 2.3
Why Do Seasons Change by Ryan Stark RL 2.1
Why Does the Sun Set? by Violet Miller RL 2.2
Social Studies – Great for primary source, perspectives and comparing/contrasting
Continents in My World by Ella Cane RL 3.5
One Land, Many Cultures by Maureen Robins RL 2.9
Then and Now by Mary Lindeen RL 2.6
What Would You Do With an Atlas? by Susan Kralovansky RL 2.8
NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE
Earth Science
Earth’s Water by Desmond Hume RL 2.5
Fearsome Forces of Nature by Anita Ganeri RL 3.7
Water by Ellen Lawrence RL 3.3
Life Science
Animal Homes by Angela Wilkes RL 3.0
Baby Animals … by Bobbie Kalman RL 2.4-4.4 (5 books in series)
Harsh Habitats by Anita Ganeri RL 3.8
Step-by-Step Experiments with Plants by Shirley Duke RL 1.7
What Lily Gets From Bee: And Other Pollination Facts by Ellen Lawrence RL 3.8
Real reading
It's free! And you can print from it or show it on your big screen.
New Books in Beginning Readers
Amelia Bedelia’s First Library Card
Cam Jansen and the Spaghetti Max Mystery
Emeralalicious RL 2.3
Fancy Nancy: Fanciest Doll in the Universe RL 3.6
Froggy’s Worst Playdate RL 2.2
Happy Birthday, Tacky! RL 3.5
Horrible Harry and the Stolen Cookie RL 3.5
Library Mouse Home Sweet Home
Llama Llama and the Bully Goat
Penny and her Marble RL 1.5
Book Buzz ... New Books
- The Dark by Lemony Snicket
- The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
- A Funny Little Bird by Jennifer Yerkes
- The Story of Fish and Snail by Deborah Freedman
- Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea
- Up Close by Gay Wegerif
CYRM 2014-15
- Miss Brooks Loves Books! (And I Don't) by Barbara Bottner
- Too Tall Houses by Giana Marino
- Exclamation Mark! by Amy Rosenthal
- Randy Riley's Really Big Hit by Chris Van Dusen
- City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems
Math Library Books
Don’t forget your school library has the following titles that align with your Everyday Math curriculum. Many of these titles are on the Math Resource shelf and aren’t allowed to circulate to students. As this is the last year of this math adoption these books will be integrated into the main collection in June 2015.
Number Patterns and Counting
26 Letters and 99 Cents
12 Ways to Get to 11
Arctic Fives Arrive
Can You Count Ten Toes?
City by Numbers
Each Orange Had 8 Slices
Less Than Zero
Math for All Seasons
Missing Mittens
One Hundred Ways to Get to 100
Pattern Bugs
Pizza Counting
Six Foolish Fisherman
Twenty is Too Many
Two Ways to Count to Ten
What’s a Pair? What’s a Dozen?
Number Stories and Operations
Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream
Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar
Bats on Parade
The Best of Times
The Doorbell Rang
Equal Shmequal
The Grapes of Math
The Great Divide: A Mathematical Marathon
How Hungry Are You?
If You Hopped Like a Frog
Mission: Addition
One Hundred Hungry Ants
A Remainder of One
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All
Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale
The Warlord’s Beads
Geometry
The Art of Shapes for Children and Adults
A Cloak for the Dreamer
Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres
Grandfather Tang’s Story
The Greedy Triangle
If You Look Around You
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Round Is a Mooncake
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
When a Line Bends … A Shape Begins
Place Value
Anno’s Counting Book
Can You Count to a Googol?
Count to a Million
A Place for Zero
Fractions
Apple Fractions
Fraction Action
Fraction Fun
Lulu’s Lemondade
Patterns & Sequences
Grandma’s Button Box
One Grain of Rice
Sorting
The Token Gift
Reference Frames (Time, Money, Coordinates)
All in One Hour
Chimp Math: Learning About Time from a Baby Chimpanzee
The Coin Counting Book
Deena’s Lucky Penny
A Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth
Follow the Money
The Great Pet Sale
How Much Is that Guinea Pig in the Window?
Pigs on a Blanket
Pigs on the Move: Fun with Math and Travel
Tell Me What the Time Is
Measurement
Actual Size
How Big is a Foot?
Inch by Inch
Measuring Penny
Millions to Measure
Is It Larger? Is It Smaller?
Estimation
Betcha!
How Much, How Many, How Fair, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1,000?
Wait ... there's more!
Reading Level Assessments
District Website
Here is a link to the 2nd grade resources
You'll need to login as staff with the password info411.
Janice Gilmore-See
Email: janice.gilmoresee@lmsvsd.k12.ca.us
Website: http://www.lmsvsd.org
Location: 4750 Date Avenue, La Mesa, CA, United States
Phone: (619) 668-5700 6465
Twitter: @janiceairplane