Mrs.
Ange,
Mrs.
Asbrock,
&
Mrs. Weber
This web page was created to guide you
through the second grade. There
is a lot of useful information for you and your parents.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact your second
grade teacher and we would be happy to help you in any way!
Field Trips:
Newport
Aquarium
or Sharon
Woods in the spring.
Grade Level Expectations
Homework
Policy:
Students
will be receiving a page or two of daily math and possibly a language
assignment to be completed as homework.
Homework that is left at school, home, copied from a friend, etc.
will result in a warning (yellow) flip.
The missing assignment will need to be made up at the next free
time but the homework flip will be automatic.
This is to alleviate the teacher’s judgment on the many excuses
concerning why the work is missing.
*If a student is absent, sufficient time will be given
to make up the work.
Weekly
Newsletter Link
Year
in Review
Language Arts: (Link to reading series)
In second grade, there will be an emphasis on reading and writing throughout the curriculum. We’ll be working out of the Scott Foresman Reading series. Along with time spent in guided reading groups working on various skills, your child will spend time reading independently in the Accelerated Reading program. We will also do whole group shared readings with big books and charts. Second graders will learn to write complete sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns will be practiced. Students will also identify subject and predicate of a sentence.
*After
winter break, we’ll begin to learn cursive writing!!
Accelerated Reader
Requirements
for all three classes are the same:
1st and 2nd Quarter
- 1 book per week
3rd and 4th Quarter
- 2 books per
week
(or 1.0 point)
*Second graders are very lucky to have the Second Grade AR
Library available for AR book selection!
(Thanks, Wonderful Volunteers!)
Math:
Mrs. Ange teaches math to all second graders. Our district has newly adopted Scott Foresman math this year.
Each morning students will begin their day with a math meeting. During the meeting children will practice skills related to calendar, time, money, counting, patterning, place value, number sense, graphing, mental computation, and problem solving. A fact practice will be completed each morning as well. Students are expected to master the basic facts, addition and subtraction, through 9+9 =18 and 18-9=9. Various strategies will be taught to help memorization of facts. Parental support is needed to help fact memorization occur.
During
the daily math lesson new objectives will be introduced through activity using
materials, discussions, and/or group work. Nightly homework
will be assigned.
Topics
covered in math include:
- Patterns
- Problem Solving
- Place Value
- Fractions
- Regrouping
- Geometry
- Money
- Measurement/Time
- Graphing
Science/
Health:
(Link
to science series)
Your
child will practice science and health hands-on through experimentation as
well as using reading guides. Mrs.
Asbrock will teach units that include:
- Light, shadow and sound
- Weather
- Moon changes / stars
- Body systems
- Making healthy choices
Social
Studies:
Friendships
will be heavily emphasized in Social Studies as well as in daily
activities. We would like to
develop a sense of respect for one another early on.
We will also work hard to promote the school-wide goal of Conflict
Resolution instruction. We
will highlight a different character trait each month and read, write
about, and hopefully use it. Some
other topics Mrs. Weber will touch on throughout the year include:
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Family
ties
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Timelines
(explorers, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King,
Jr., modern leaders, etc.
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Map
skills
¨
Special
Americans and holidays
¨
American
symbols and government
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Our
home, Earth (continents,
oceans and landforms