The Top Quality Kids in room #14 come to school to learn.  We learn by studying, doing our homework, reading books and listening to our teacher.  We do this for ourselves so we can be life-long learners.  (Class of 2009/2010)

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Math:  Review time

Reading: Enjoy a good book!

Have a wonderful week!

**Look for yellow parent-student information sheet

**Care more than others think is wise.  Risk more than others think is safe.  Dream more than others think is practical.  Expect more than others think is possible.  (Anonymous)

Top Quality Kids

Set Goals

Keep Data

Get Results! 

WELCOME BACK TO LEARNING! 

Thursday, September 2 -Parent Orientations, 6:00 p.m.

Monday, September 6 - NO SCHOOL - Labor Day

Wednesday, September 15 - NO SCHOOL - School Improvement Day

** A few good books!  First Day Jitter's, by Julie Dannebug  Arthur's Teacher Trouble, by Marc Brown    Officer Buckle and Gloria, by Peggy Rathman

How Full is Your Bucket?   Each and every day students try to compliment and encourage each other with thoughtful words that make everybody feel good inside.

Student of the Week!   Ben E.  We are so very happy you are a part of our second grade class!

  Everyday Mathematics Program-

Consists of six mathematical content strands - Operations & Computations, Numerical Patterns, Functions & Algebra, Data & Chance, Measurement & Reference Frames, Geometry

*Homelinks go home nightly to support student learning.

*Everyday Mathematics Games are played weekly to help improve math facts and basic skills.

**Fasttmath is a computer program all students use on a daily basis to learn math facts.  In addition, it is important that second grade students practice the fact triangle addition and subtraction cards.  In class, students participate in many strategies for memorizing their facts. 

Some areas we will visit this year are listed below.  There are six major Social Study topics covered in second grade.  The Scott Foresman program is a guide in meeting state objectives.  The Junior Achievement program is  a part of our lessons.  This program is coordinated with local business volunteers.

Unit 1 - Where We Live

Unit 2 - Our Earth

Unit 3 - Working Together

Unit 4 - Our Country Today

Unit 5 - Our Country Long Ago

Unit 6 - People and Places in History 

Five Literary Selections-A balanced approach including shared reading, independent reading and guided reading.

All genre-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Biographies, and Autobiographies

Accelerated Reader-Computerized Reading test

Target Skills in Second Grade...

Sequencing, Author's Purpose, Character, Graphic Sources, Realistic/Fantasy, Context Clues, Summarizing, Visualizing, Steps in a Process, Fact and Opinion, Compare/Contrast, Making Judgments, Theme, Drawing Conclusions, Generalization, Cause/Effect, Setting, Prediciting and so much more!

Writing, writing and more writing...

Expository, Narrative, and Persuasive

Poetry

Creative Writing

6 + 1 Traits of Writing

Brain Gym 

  Exercising is good for the brain.   That is why we take breaks throughout the day to exercise our brain.  Ask your child to show you the "hook-up" with their arms.  Then point to a finger and ask them to give it a wiggle.  Now try the "gotcha" game!  In addition, students are asked to bring a water bottle to school and to drink lots of water.  A healthy snack time is also encouraged in the morning.

100% of the Second grade students will meet or exceed their target RIT score on the MAP test in the area of Reading by Spring, 2011.

To monitor our progress, we will use the midyear MAP test scores and the Scott Foresman Reading skills test.

As a part of the continuous improvement process, students are responsibile for managing their own learning processes.  Students have set personal learning goals and classroom goals.  Students manage their own personal data folders to monitor progress toward these goals.  Check out our classroom goals to see how we are doing at reaching our team goals. Ask your child how they are doing at reaching their own personal goals.