2 nd Grade Handbook Overview

1. Welcome to 2nd Grade Curriculum Night!Your 2nd Grade Team:Erin BarkerAmy HortonAshley JonesAmy LarsonKim LustigStephanie Smith

2. 2nd Grade Handbook Overview

3. Daily Folder • Daily Calendar • We will write a word of the day on each day of the calendar for you to discuss with your child. Any other notes will be documented on the lined paper behind the calendar. • Please initial each day. • Homework Calendar • This will be used for suggested activities for you to work on with your child. These are not mandatory or graded but are meant as reinforcement for learning at home.

4. Email • Second Grade Newsletter • Important Reminders • Parent-Teacher communication • Email is preferred during the school day (aside from dismissal changes) • Alert your teacher if you have not received any emails yet.

5. Food • Snacks – Dry snacks, water only, no candy • No food items to celebrate birthdays • Please be aware if your child’s classroom is peanut free.

6. Dismissal • Early pick up: students must be checked out from the office. • Please send a note in advance if there is a change in how your child will get home. • If something changes throughout the day please do not rely on email, always call the front desk.

7. Grading Policy • Graded Work • A: 90-100, B: 80-89, C: 70-79, F: Below 70 • Corrected Assignments • Make-Up Work: One extra school day for each day absent • Grades may be in the form of: rubrics, graded papers, journal work, procedural grades

8. Curriculum Overview • All curriculum is based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills that is put out by the Texas Education Agency. • We are prohibited from teaching curriculum from other grade levels. • However, curriculum will be differentiated based on the students’ needs whether it be on grade level enrichment or re-teaching.

9. Reading Curriculum • Read to Self • Read to Someone • Listen to Reading • Non-Fiction • Author Study • Poetry • Reader’s Theater • Story Telling

10. Reading With Your Child

11. Writing Curriculum • Narrative • Non-Fiction: How To, All About • Letter Writing • Poetry • Persuasive Writing • Realistic Fiction • Writing Process: Draft, Revise, Edit, Publish, Illustrate • Beginning, Middle, End

12. Assessing Writing • It is developmentally appropriate for students to spell phonetically at this age. • We expect students to have the beginning, middle and ending sounds represented in their spelling. • We will hold students accountable for spelling patterns that have been covered as well as sight words and phonetic spelling.

13. Math Curriculum • Place Value • Compare and order numbers • Number patterns • Data and probability • Time • Addition/subtraction facts up to 9+9 (need to be mastered by 3rd grade) • 2 digit and 3 digit addition/subtraction • Money • Geometry • Basic fractions • Measurement • Intro to Multiplication/division • Word Problems

14. Working on Math Word Problems UPS Check • Understanding • Plan • Solve • Check (with another strategy) Thinking Patterns • Some and some more (SSM +) • Some went away (SWA -) • Bigger, Smaller, Difference (BSD -)

15. Science Curriculum • Tools and Safety Rules • Weather and Water Cycle • Moon Phases • States of Matter: Solid, Liquid, Gas • Force and Motion • Animal Adaptations and Environments • Plants • Earth’s Resources • Engineering

16. Social Studies Curriculum • Citizenship • Communities • Freedom • Government • Maps/Symbols • Landforms • Landmarks • Holiday Customs • Culture • Historical Figures • Timelines • Economics: Producers and Consumers • Environment • Natural Resources • Technology

17. One Team, Our Goal - Excellence • “Children might not always remember everything you teach them, but they will always remember how you made them feel.” Thanks for coming!!!