Welcome to Back to School Night

Ms. Rupp Room 8

Second Grade

rupp@voorhees.k12.nj.us 856-767-6749 ext. 1108

First Day of School

Second Grade CurriculumA Balanced Literacy

Approach

•Reading Street by Scott Foresman•Oral Language development•Word Work•Reading ~ comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency•Focus on differentiated instruction•Small groups focus on word attack strategies, comprehension, and fluency using ‘just right’ books•Language ~ grammar and writing

Goals of Balanced Literacy

•Foster a lifelong love of reading and writing•Embrace good literature as readers and writers•Enhance skill development

The Daily FiveGail Boushey & Joan Moser

Students:

•Read to Self•Read to Someone•Work on Writing•Word Work•Listen to Reading

Teachers Working with Students:

Guided Reading Guided Writing Assessing Conferring

Balanced Literacy

•Read aloud with accuracy, comprehension, and appropriate rate•Read aloud with expression•Second grade goal is to read 90 words per minute.•Running records will be used to assess student fluency.

Reading Fluency

Balanced Literacy

•Recognize and automatically read high-frequency words & lesson vocabulary•Use context clues to figure out meaning of new vocabulary•Classify and organize words•Understand synonyms & antonyms •Build oral vocabulary with Amazing Words

Reading Vocabulary

Balanced Literacy

•Set a purpose for reading•Activate and use prior knowledge•Make and confirm predictions•Answer and generate questions•Summarize text by retelling stories or main idea•Create mental images•Make connections•Identify literary elements- plot, setting, characters, theme

Reading Comprehension Strategies & Skills

•Shift from emergent reader to an

independent reader

Balanced Literacy

•Identify the author’s purpose•Compare and contrast•Name cause and effect relationships •Make inferences•Distinguish fact from opinion•Use graphic organizers•Sequence events in a story•Identify main idea & supporting details (determine importance) •Use fix-up strategies

Reading Comprehension Strategies & Skills

Balanced Literacy

•Use pre-writing strategies to organize and brainstorm writing ideas•Write personal narratives•Create interesting openings/closings •Write a friendly letter•Include details•Write a non-fiction paragraph•Steps in a process•Dialogue•Cursive writing introduced during the second half of the year

Writing

Writing Using 6 traits + 1

•Ideas•Organization•Voice•Word Choice•Sentence Fluency•Conventions•Presentation

Balanced Literacy

•Word study includes our daily work with phonics and spelling. We will be working with spelling patterns, word families, and high frequency (sight) words.•“Amazing Words,” high-frequency words, and selection words will be introduced weekly.

•Addition and subtraction strategies•Two-digit addition & subtraction•Three-digit addition & subtraction•Mental addition & subtraction•Place value to 1,000

Second Grade Curriculum

Pearson

Math

Students will be expected to learn their math facts to 20 and quizzes will be given throughout the school year. Flashcards will be sent home to practice.

Second Grade Curriculum

Pearson

•Time•Geometry •Money•Organize and interpret data•Measurement•Introduction to multiplication and division

Math

•Communities: community workers, urban, suburban and rural areas and how communities can change•All About Earth: landforms, seasons, and Earth’s resources•Our Past: Native Americans, Pilgrims, Colonies to states, American Revolution, Famous people in history

Second Grade Curriculum

Social Studies

Second Grade Curriculum

•All About Work: Needs and wants, goods vs. services, producers vs. consumers, trading with other countries, different kinds of jobs and how people meet their needs•Our Government: Our country’s government, capital, American heroes and American symbols

Social Studies

•Animals: 6 classification groups and characteristics, habitats •Changes on Earth: Water cycle and weather, changes on Earth, fossils, dinosaurs•Space: Earth’s rotation, seasons, planets •Matter: 3 states of matter, changing matter, engery- heat, light, sound

Second Grade Curriculum

Science

Second Grade Curriculum

•Define bullying•Distinguishing between bullying and normal conflict•Recognize different behaviors that may be aggressive, passive and assertive•Using an “I” message: “I feel __________ when you ___________. I want you to _____. •Tattling vs. telling•Bystander strategies•Respect

Bully BustingState-Mandated

Lessons

GradingReading: 10% Homework Language: 0% Homework

40% Classwork 50% Classwork 50% Tests 50% Tests

Spelling: 0% Homework Math: 10% Homework

50% Classwork 40% Classwork 50% Tests 50% Tests

Science & Social Studies: 0% Homework 50% Classwork

50% Tests

A+ 100-98 A 97-95 A- 94-92B+ 91-89 B 88-86 B- 85-83C+ 82-80 C 79-77 C- 76-74D+ 73-71 D 70-68 D- 67-65

F 64 and below I incomplete

HomeworkReading Contract-

Day 1-4 Reader’s Choice for 15 minutesDay 5 Test day: No reading homework

Please discuss the story with your child.*Please sign the reading contract each night.*

A word sort envelope may be sent home. These are spelling words and words that follow the spelling pattern to practice sorting. Please return this envelope each night if brought home.

HomeworkSpelling Contract-Day 1-4 practice spelling words

*There are many suggestions to practice spelling listed on the contract such as :

•Word sort by the spelling pattern of the week

•Blind sort by telling your child the word and they must decide which category it belongs in without seeing the word. Then they may write it in the category or verbally name the category.

•Word Hunt through books for the spelling words or words with similar patterns

•www.spellingcity.com

Day 5 Test day **Day 5 will not always be a Friday

HomeworkMath-2-sided worksheet corresponding to day’s lessonNo homework on Fridays

Reading, social studies and science vocabulary will be sent home with each unit to review.

Social Studies vocabulary will be sent home. You can play memory or matching games with the definitions and words to review.

Please sign your child’s agenda each night.

Graded Work

•Please sign and return all tests.•Quizzes do not need to be signed and returned.•Students will be given dictation sentences weekly. These sentences will count as a classwork grade for spelling and grammar. You will see two grades on your paper separately for spelling and grammar.

Pearsonsuccessnet.com•Math website used daily during lesson

•Reading website used daily during lesson

•Students can sign on at home to practice skills

•Students’ username and password sent home

Class website

www.voorhees.k12.nj.usClick on Signal Hill School

Teacher WebsRupp

Behavior4 R’s

Respect*ResponsibilityResilienceRecognition

Classroom Expectations• We value our own learning

and the learning of others.• We will take care of ourselves,

each other, and this place.• We will have fun learning,

playing, and growing together.

Rewards

Music Box

Marble Jar

Dollars

DonationsIf you would like to make any contributions to our classroom, they would be greatly appreciated.

The following items are things we will need for our school year:

TissuesHand Soap

Hand SanitizerAntibacterial Wipes or Baby Wipes

Birthday Reminder•Birthday treats may be sent in to celebrate your child’s birthday

•Leave in the office

•You may also join your child for lunch. Our lunch starts at 11:40.

Book Club Orders

•Will be sent home approximately 4-5 times throughout the year•Checks only made payable to Scholastic Book ClubsOrders may also be placed online

Mystery Reader

Sign-up in folder Shhh!!! It’s a secret Bring in your child’s favorite story to share! Please specify month and day(s) of the week that works best for you. I will contact you near your availability.

About My Child Survey

Class list of addresses and phone numbers

Conference sign-up

Room Moms

Questions?