Curriculum Night 2 nd Grade Room 14 Sara Kaleo (Kuh-lay-oh) Derek McIalwain (Mackle-wayne)

Curriculum Night2nd Grade Room 14

Sara Kaleo (Kuh-lay-oh)Derek McIalwain (Mackle-wayne)

I do not believe in keeping students from recess. If they are held in it is a serious offense or they are very behind in work completion.

Time to reflect will occur during free time the last 30 minutes of the day.

Management

Goes home on Monday Returned on Friday (Thursday if no school on

Friday) Read for 20 minutes a night Homework incomplete if not signed by an adult It is the students responsibility to get a signature

Homework

Benchmark Reading Program Daily 5 Workshop Guided reading books Step Up to Writing Friday is the spelling test.

Reading, Writing, and Spelling

Curriculum Goals

Use reference skills to determine word meanings Find themes and the main idea of

passages/paragraphs Study expository and narrative texts and other

genres Work on making predictions, inference, and

summarizing.

Math Expressions by Houghton/Mifflin Harcourt 2nd grade math goals: Count by 10’s/100’s to 1,000 Place value to the hundreds Quickly recall basic addition and subtraction

math facts for sums through 20

Math

Add and subtract two-digit numbersMetric and U.S. customary unitsTwo and three dimensional figuresGraphs

Maps: symbols, compass rose, labels, and key

Physical characteristics of places in the community

Timelines of events Discussions to learn different points of view

Social Studies

Balance and Motion Butterflies/Life Cycle

Science

If your child is going to invite the whole class, just boys, or just girls, invitations can be handed out during school time.If your child is not going to invite the whole class please have invitations ready the week before so they can be sent home in Monday folders. If this window is missed then I ask they be mailed.

Birthday Invites

Due to an increase of allergies; to protect both you and me, I ask that treats are purchased at the store.

Thank you for respecting this request.

Birthday/ Class Party Treats

Specialist Schedule Monday: Music at 2:40 Tuesday: PE at 12:35

Wednesday: Music at 2:40 Thursday: Library at 1:25

Friday: PE at 1:35

Please send a family picture, words cut out from a magazine, pictures from a magazine, and special stickers in a Zip-loc by Friday, October 5th. We will be decorating the covers of our journals.

Journal Decoration