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Welcome to Back to School Night

Welcome to Room 208 with Ms. Leikvold! Explore our daily routines, curriculum, and how you can support your child's learning journey. Join us to build community, enhance math skills, and enjoy special activities.

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Welcome to Back to School Night

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  1. Welcome to Back to School Night 2014-2015 2nd Grade – Room 208

  2. Ms. Leikvold • At Hoffman-Boston since 2004 • Email: laila.leikvold@apsva.us • Phone: 703-228-5845 • I welcome notes and visits from you!

  3. Beginning of the Day • Students may arrive at school beginning at 8:30. • Enter classrooms at 8:45. • Begin teaching at 9:00 • Morning meeting – social-emotional intelligence and community building.

  4. Language Arts • Focus on building independent, life long readers and fluent writers. • Management: Reader’s Workshop • Curriculum: Storytown, Being a Writer, Leveled Classroom Library, and Word Study

  5. Recess and Lunch • Birthday and other celebrations will be celebrated during the last 10 minutes of the day, so as to not take away from instructional time. • Please consider sugar content (!) if providing treats for celebrations.

  6. Every Day Counts • Daily Math Program based on the calendar. • Focuses on patterns, numbers. • Enhances the math curriculum.

  7. Intervention • Time for individual differentiation based on student need. • Specialists and teachers work with students in math, reading, writing or content. • Data-based instruction.

  8. Content • Science –Hands-on, literature based. • Focus: science skills, life cycles, magnets, weather, environment • Social Studies – focus on civics and the community, map skills, economics, China, Egypt, and American Indians.

  9. Math • Curriculum: Expressions • Focus on “math talk” and “math community”. • Interactive and hands on. • Rigorous! • On Blackboard www.apsva.us

  10. Specials • PE – once a week • STEM – also linked to our daily curricula • Music • Art • Project Edison • Library

  11. Homework • Daily reading and a reading log to fill out (Monday – Thursday) • Daily math which supports that day’s lesson (Monday – Friday). • Additional homework as the year progresses. • Written in their agenda.

  12. Field Trips • Several field trips coming up: • Chaperones are welcome! • Please get permission slips in on time.

  13. Thanks for your support in… • Getting your child to school on time. • Encouraging them to complete their homework. • Keeping us informed of changes in their lives. • Keeping them healthy and happy. • We couldn’t do it without you!

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