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Meeting the Needs of 2 nd Grade’s High- Ability and High- Achieving Students

Meeting the Needs of 2 nd Grade’s High- Ability and High- Achieving Students. 2012-2013. Overview.

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Meeting the Needs of 2 nd Grade’s High- Ability and High- Achieving Students

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  1. Meeting the Needs of 2nd Grade’s High- Ability and High- Achieving Students 2012-2013

  2. Overview • As 2nd grade teachers, there are many opportunities to meet the needs of students who are high-ability or high-achieving. Next year, we will continue to work to include these opportunities in: • Projects • Stations • Homework • Technology

  3. Projects • Depending on the project and the class interests, there are extension opportunities readily available throughout the course of the project. • For example-, Farmer’s Market (money), Space Night (movie making), Cookbooks (measurement and sequencing), Lemonade Day (animal research) • Students work in groups and have assigned or chosen positions in those groups that include being the : • Station Leaders • Project Managers

  4. Communication • Presentations throughout the year • Town Hall Meetings • Presentations of what is happening in 2nd grade • Announcements • Community visitors • Connections to project • Presenting our needs/ goals • Projects- Project Managers • Farmer’s Market- product design and creation • Promote the Vote- community connections • Healthy Cookbooks- recipe substitutions and sales • Lemonade Day- Animal research and sales

  5. Stations • Each day in second grade, the students rotate through 8 stations. • Four Language Arts stations in the morning • Four Math/ Project stations in the afternoon • In each station, there is a task or activity to complete either within that day or within that week. • The activities are set up to meet the needs of many different learners.

  6. Reading • Reading • Leveled readers and comprehension packets or activities related to the reading. • Usually connected to a 20-30 minute whole group lesson before stations begin. • Connected to project • Self-Selected Reading • AR books and quizzes on students’ reading levels • Working with Words • Each week includes a regular 2nd grade list and a challenge list • The challenge list includes words above grade level and connected to our project • Writing • Rubric • Extension activities

  7. Math • Math Journal • Connected to EM series • Project Connection • Apply the skill or concept to a real-life situation in our project • For example, while studying money, they practiced giving change with play money for particular purchases. • Skill Application • The skill from EM is applied in a real-life situation, game or extended to the next level.

  8. Math cont… • Everyday Math Online • Skill practice online • Grade levels can vary based on the skill and students’ needs • DIBELS • Skills/ concepts • Patterns • Quantity discrimination • Adding and Subtracting with regrouping and borrowing • Math Facts

  9. Science/ Health and Social Studies Often applied during stations or project time Community connections often create opportunities to expand on a skill or concept Reading during LA stations based on reading level

  10. Homework • Modified for needs of students • Spelling-Challenge list • Spelling City • Math focused on same skill and concept with the class, but at 3rd grade level and up • Read 20 minutes each night • AR leveled readers

  11. Technology • 2nd Grade Expectation • Microsoft Word • Size, font, color, writings • PowerPoint • Our website • This year, some 2nd graders learned or mastered: • PREZI • Microsoft Publisher • Windows Movie Maker • Google Earth • Audacity • Microsoft Word • Insert pictures, paragraphing

  12. Questions? Thank you for attending!

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