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Second Grade Team:Mrs. Preman
Ms. BarthMrs. McCusker
Ms. QuinnMrs. Richard
Morning MeetingMM goal is to merge social, emotional and intellectual learning
Greeting: Students greet each other by name. Sharing: Students share some news of interest, articulate thoughts and feelings, and sometimes respond to each other or ask questions in a positive way.Group Activity: The whole class does a short activity together building classroom community. Morning Message: Students practice academic skills and build their sense of community by reading and discussing a daily message written by the teacher
The Daily 5:
5 Meaningful Literacy Activities:-Read to Self
-Read to Someone-Work on Writing
-Listen to Reading-Word Work
Building StaminaReading groups meet during
Daily 5Teach reading strategies to
practice independently
Begin the year with personal narrative or small moments
Other topics include:-non-fiction-letters-poetry-descriptive paragraphs-opinions
Help your child come up with topics.
Number Sense and Operations•Counting by fives, tens, and multiples of hundreds, tens, and ones•Comparing•Write multi-digit numbers (up to 1000)•Understand base-ten notation•Place value and the properties of operations
Math facts (Number Sense)•Memorize addition and subtraction facts to 20•Fluently solve addition and subtraction to 100•Use addition and subtraction algorithms to solve problems within 1000.
Measurement•Understanding the importance of standard units of measure•Use rulers and other measurement tools
Geometry•Describe and analyze shapes by examining their sides and angles•Investigate, describe, and reason about decomposing and combining shapes•Two- and three-dimensional shapes
Data analysis•Describe and analyze data through charts and graphs•Collect data and develop graphs
Topics:
-Life cycles of butterflies and frogs-Changes in matter: solids, liquids, gases-Soils and fossils
Topics:
-Apple economics-Mapping-Continents around the world-Research about the countries of our ancestors
Each Monday new homework will be assigned by your teacher. Starting in October your child will find this on their Scootpad account. This homework will consist of the following:
•Spelling Words8 new words a weekTic-Tac-Toe board choices on how to
practice words
Each Monday new homework will be assigned by your teacher. Starting in October your child will find this on their Scootpad account. This homework will consist of the following:
2. Reading Fluency (paper copy)Reading same passage each night for fluency
practice
Each Monday new homework will be assigned by your teacher. Starting in October your child will find this on their Scootpad account. This homework will consist of the following:
3. ScootPad Math (computer math practice)This will start the first week of October and your
teacher will set up the account for each child and provide your child with specific login information.
Scoot Pad website/app for Math, Reading Log, and Homework Checklist
How to log in:
Assignments
Math Practice:
Each Monday new homework will be assigned by your teacher. Starting in October your child will find this on their Scootpad account. This homework will consist of the following:
4. ScootPad Reading (computer log)Read a book of your choice for at least 15 minutes a
night. Your child will be able to list the book title and comments on Scootpad.
Each Monday new homework will be assigned by your teacher. Starting in October your child will find this on their Scootpad account. This homework will consist of the following:
5. All homework will be due on Friday
Approximately once a month there will be a special project with a longer due date. When special projects are assigned they will come with specific instructions.
Timeline HomeworkDue September 27th