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Back to School Night in
Second Grade
Mrs. P., Mr. B., and Mr. Whalen
Our Team
Ms. P (2nd Grade Teacher)
Mr. B (Instructional Aide)
Mr. Whalen (GW Intern)
Welcome
A Day in the Life of a Second Grader begins with Morning Meeting:
Greeting
Morning Message and Wise Words of the Week
Schedule
Share
Energizer-Me too!
Language Arts Block: 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 min
Mini-lesson focused on a particular reading strategy and standard:
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/2
C.A.F.E. Time
Comprehension (Guided reading and read to self)
Accuracy (Word Work)
Fluency (Listening Center)
Expanding schema (Station work around language standards)
Content Area Units
Science
Plants, Pollinators, and Agricultural Engineers
Simple Machines and Inventions
H2O and Weather Matters
Our Changing Earth
Social Studies
Westward Expansion and the Northwest Coastal Indians (A Then and Now Study)
Geography, Folktales, and Cultures from Around the World
Content Area Literacy-45 minutes a day to 1 hour
Reading and Writing instruction in the content areas including science and social studies.
Community Building
Our classroom uses the Responsive Classroom approach to community building and classroom discipline.
Please see our Class Promise to see the class rules your students came up with to support their own hopes and dreams for second grade.
Our Class Supports
Friendship Recipes
“What’s Bugging You?” Strategy chart
Comfort Corner
Natural Consequences
Math Workshop-90 minutes a day Tues-Fri
Mini-lesson
Guided Math Instruction and Centers (Math with a Partner, Math By Myself, Math with Technology, Math with a Teacher).
EngageNY and Cathy Fosnot Curriculum
M-squared Enrichment Curriculum for Geometry, Measurement, and Multiplication
Problem of the Day
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/2/NBT
Math Sequence
Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
Number sense:Putting together and taking apart
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Measurement and Data
Geometry
An Algebraic Proof
What is the purpose of math?
What math is?
The study of patterns and functions
Process
Abstract representative thinking
Proof and argumentation
Discussion
What math isn’t?
The exclusive study of arithmetic and procedural fluency
Product oriented
Paper and Pencil only
A Combined View
Enrichment
Depth of knowledge and expansion of number sense through explorations in Algebraic Thinking
Acceleration
Vertical Acceleration through above grade level content
A proof for why an Odd+Odd = Even
Odds and Evens
Enrichment
If Odd+Odd=Even what would happen if we did
2(Odd)+2(Odd)=?
3(Odd) + 3(Odd)=?
3(Odd)+2(Odd)=?
Acceleration
Generalizing the rule to larger numbers and explaining why it still works
Responsive InstructionFormative
Assessments
End of unit tests
Rubrics
Quarterly assessments
Class work
Homework
Summative Assessments
Report Cards
DIBELS and TRC
iReady
Homework
Homework is assigned in a packet distributed at the beginning of the week and should be initialed and returned in the HW folder daily.
In the first quarter students will be assigned 1 assignment a night plus their reading log.
Spelling will be completed as part of C.A.F.E. time and writer’s workshop.
Field Trips and Celebrations
Class Parent: Joel Churches (Ruby’s Dad)
Birthday celebrations on Fridays at 3:00 pm in the classroom
We are hoping to plan field trips to the Botanical Gardens and Smithsonian. I am also on the hunt for a community garden that we can walk to!
Communication
http://www.rosselementary.org/
Parent-teacher conferences can be made for most Monday, Thursday, and Friday mornings at 8:15 am. Please contact me directly to schedule a specific time.
Weekly letter via the Ross Website. Please register now on the laptops provided.
Thank you!!
Questions?
Feel free to email me.
