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Miss Colleen Fish Room 132. Personalized Bookmark/Desk . Please take some time to make your student their own bookmark! Please read their letter they wrote for you. Please take a look inside their desk to notice some of their work: Yellow Folder: Writing Workshop
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Miss Colleen Fish Room 132
Personalized Bookmark/Desk • Please take some time to make your student their own bookmark! • Please read their letter they wrote for you. • Please take a look inside their desk to notice some of their work: • Yellow Folder: Writing Workshop • Red Folder: Social Studies/Science • Blue Folder: Work Folder
Contact Information/Volunteering • Please remember to check the white PTO contact sheet • Make sure you make any necessary changes • Initial near your name if everything looks okay • Please fill out the volunteer sign up sheet if you would like to help in our classroom
Classroom Website • Check the website often! • Accessed through Dallin School website • Helpful reminders • Updates • Helpful websites for curriculum • Forms and documents
Homework • Homework is due on Friday except for the Reading Response Journal, which is due Wednesday. • Completing and returning homework is very important! • If you’re noticing that your student is struggling and reaching their frustration level, send in a note and I will work on the homework with them
Classroom Management • “Wave Jumps” • Builds community as students work toward a common goal • Jumps are given for behavior in Specials • Behavior Signals • Green- Keep up the good work! • Yellow- Think about the choices you’re making, 5 minutes to think about your behavior • Red- Stop! There will be appropriate consequences • Friday Afternoon Club • 20 minutes of free time on Friday afternoon • Students need to have good behavior all week in order to keep their 20 minutes. • Minutes can be taken away, but not given back
Typical Day in Second Grade: • Morning Work • Fundations • Meeting • Snack • Special • Monday- Art • Tuesday- PE • Wednesday- Library • Thursday- PE • Friday- Music • Math • Recess/Lunch • Quiet Work – time to catch up on work • Daily 5 • Writers Workshop • Social Studies/Science • WIN Block (What I Need) • Pack-up and Dismissal
Morning Routines and Work • Morning Routines • Students are responsible for: handing in any notes, returning homework, put STAR binder in desk, do their Morning Job • Morning Work • Math packet related to the Common Core Standards • Unfinished work or Smart Choice
Fundations/Phonics • Letter-Sound Relationships • Sound blends, segmenting, letter formation, etc. • Word Wall Words • Dictations • Tools include: • Tile boards • Phonics games • Personal white boards • Word Wall • Letter cards
Morning Meeting • Calendar • Weather • Money • Days Backwards • PlaceValue/Tens Frames • Morning Message • Also a time to talk about our schedule, updates, questions
Math • Unit Topics: • Mathematical Thinking at • Grade 2 • Addition facts 0-20, Subtraction facts 0-18 • Coin identification and value • Adding coins and dollars • Making change • Time (hour, half hour, quarter hour – for analog and digital, elapsed time, months and days of the week) • Measurement • Data analysis (charts, graphs, diagrams)
English Language Arts • RAZ Kids • Independent Reading • Shared Reading • Read Alouds • Daily 5 • Fundations • Guided Reading • Celebrity Reader • Writing Workshop
Writing Workshop • Allows students to write about topics that are of interest to themselves, but are things they have experienced and can write about • Brainstorm, draft, revise/edit, publish • Mini-lessons based on Lucy Calkin’s Writing Program
Social Studies • Done during the first part of the year • Students are introduced to literature, music, art, and discussions around: • Geography and mapping skills • Explore cultures: Japan, Continents • Historical Events/Holidays • Current Events (as related to topics covered in school)
Science/Great Body Shop • Science is done during the second part of the year. Topics include: • Moon: phases, location over time, environment, exploration • Balancing and Weighing • Whales • Butterflies • Children start to use the scientific method of asking questions, making predictions, making observations • Great Body Shop • Learn about health, safety, nutrition, decision making
Open Circle • Goal: Build community and learn to work together • Provides opportunities for social learning and is a comfortable way for students to share or listen when their classmates express concerns and share experiences • 1-2 times a week for 20-30 minutes
Other Things in 2nd Grade • Celebrity Reader • Reading Response Journal • Recess and Lunch – Extra time this year • Snack • If you need to come into the building you must go through the front entrance, sign-in and get a guest pass. This includes at dismissal time. If something needs to be delivered to a student, leave it with the secretary and she will make sure it gets to the student as soon as possible.