Dear Parents,. Welcome to a fun and exciting year in the second grade! This is
going to be a year full of amazing opportunities and challenges. Students learn to
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Second Grade Class Syllabus and Procedures Outline David Ellis Academy-West 2013-2014
Dear Parents, Welcome to a fun and exciting year in the second grade! This is going to be a year full of amazing opportunities and challenges. Students learn to read advanced books, perfect math skills, become amazing authors, exceptional explorers, and super scientists. Attached you will find important things to note for your child as they enter second grade, along with a general 2nd grade supply list, websites, books, and activities to check out over the summer, and the second grade curriculum. An active parent/guardian is one of the best tools to have when it comes to an academically successful child. Therefore, we look forward to working with parents to help students have a successful year. Below are a few things to note as your child prepares to enter second grade. Homework Policy The purpose of homework is to reinforce learning and to assess students; therefore, students will be expected to complete a homework packet weekly. Homework is expected to be completed by the assigned due date. Late assignments will be accepted; however, a reduction of points will take place.
Evaluation Students will be evaluated on the following: - Tests and quizzes - Class work and homework - Projects and activities - Participation and group activities
Classroom Rules Students are expected to: 1. Follow directions the first time. 2. Listen when others are talking and raise your hand. 3. Show respect for school and personal property, and others.
Parent Visitation-10/24 policy Parent involvement is encouraged; yet, at an appropriate time. If you ARE STOPPING BY and the VISIT will last over 10 minutes an appointment must be set up with a 24 hour notice. However, if students are engaged in instruction, I may ask for you to wait or schedule a time to meet. If your VISIT will last less than 10 minutes, an appointment is not necessary. BE SURE TO CHECK IN THE OFFICE TO RECEIVE YOUR VISTIORS PASS. The best time to meet with your child’s teacher is before or after school, to not interfere with classroom instruction.
Second Grade Curriculum Language Arts-Reading Key Ideas and Details
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
Craft and Structure
Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, poetry and informational texts, in the grades 2– 3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Phonics and Word Recognition
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Fluency
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Language Arts-Writing Text Types and Purposes
Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g.,because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Production and Distribution of Writing
With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Knowledge of Language
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g.,When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
Mathematics Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions.
Add and subtract within 20.
Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.
Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members.
Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.
Understand place value.
Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:
Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.
Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100–900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100–900.
Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.
Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.
Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.
Relate addition and subtraction to length.
Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units.
Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram.
Work with time and money.
Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.
Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?
Represent and interpret data.
Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units.
Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems1 using information presented in a bar graph.
Reason with shapes and their attributes.
Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.
Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
Science
Pose questions and design experiments Use laboratory instruments Gather and record data Weather conditions Identify external structures of insects Life cycle of insects Solids to liquids by heating or cooling Rotational motion
Social Studies
Elements of neighborhoods Economical interdependence Adaptation to physical environments See individuals as unique Generate possible solutions to problems or issues Laws and rules Resources Global issues
Supply List *These are the general supplies needed for your child. Each second grade teacher will provide you with a specific one for your child’s classroom in the Fall. Individual Supplies · · ·
(2) pocket folders (1) 1” WHITE binder (5) 1 subject notebooks-- wide ruled
Class Consumables · · · · · · · · ·
(1) Boxes of pencils (2) Boxes of crayons (24 pack) (4) glue sticks (1) pack loose-leaf paper (lined) (2) boxes of Kleenex (2) bottles of hand sanitizer Erasers (pink eraser- 2 pack) Scissors Clorox Wipes
*Please note that the supply list is slightly different than the one posted on the website. Many of the supplies with be used as class consumables rather than individual supplies. *Markers and colored pencils are not needed at this time.
ACTIVITIES FOR SUMMER FUN RECOMMENDED BY SECOND GRADE TEACHERS 1.) Join a Library summer reading program. 2.) Read to your little brother or sister, grandparents, a pet, or a stuffed animal everyday! 3.) Try to read an entire series of books. (Example: Cam Jansen, Nate the Great, Magic Tree House, Magic School Bus, The Little’s). 4.) Read the same book as a friend and then talk about it. Write a book review together. 5.) Read your cereal box and other boxes of food, too. 6.) Read and try to follow a recipe or a craft project. 7.) Read the signs around your community. 8.) Keep practicing those addition and subtraction facts – FAST!! 9.) Use tools to measure. For example, help to measure out a garden, weigh foods at the grocery store, measure how much you grow this summer, measure how tall your plants grow, or use capacity containers to measure water and sand. 10.) Find examples of arrays, patterns, and fractions in your home and neighborhood. 11.) Play Monopoly – substitute with different monetary amounts. 12). Get a watch and practice telling time. 13.) Save your own money and use it to buy things you want. Practice counting out change or deciding how much change you might get back. 14.) See how many different states’ license plates you can spot this summer. Color the states you find on a US map. 15.) Make a lemonade stand or have a garage sale. Make your own posters and price tags. Decide how you will use the money you earn to get what you need or want.
16.) Continue to visit different communities. Can you tell if you are in a rural, suburban, or urban community? 17.) Collect postcards from places you have visited. 18.) Be a keen observer of nature all around you. Use all of your senses. Sketch and label what you see, hear, feel, taste, and smell in a special scientists’ notebook. Don’t forget to look up, down and all around! 19.) While you are camping or hiking, look for rocks, plants or insects and describe them to your family. 20.) Write a book or keep a journal about a trip or about your summer vacation. 21.) Write a letter to a teacher, friend, relative, sports star, movie star or T.V. star. 22.) Before you visit a place this summer, go to the library or check the internet to research some information about that location. 23.) Play school with a brother, sister or friend. You get to be the teacher! 24.) Make a map of places you visit this summer. Make sure you include a title, compass rose and a map key. 25.) Lay on your back and look at the clouds in the sky. Decide what type of clouds they are, what type of weather they may bring and what objects they look like. 26.) Stay up late with your parents to see if you can identify any planets, stars or constellations in the night sky. 27.) Go grocery shopping with your parents. Write the shopping list and estimate your total grocery bill. Check your parents’ change. 28.) When you take a trip in your car or van, check the odometer when you leave and when you return. Calculate how far you traveled in miles. 29.) Send an e-mail to someone you know. 30.) Write a book or a story for someone who is special to you. 31.) Read both FICTION and NONFICTION books (use comprehension strategies while reading (making connections, predictions, summarizing, retell in sequential order))
WEBSITES FOR SUMMER FUN RECOMMENDED BY SECOND GRADE TEACHERS *http://www.xtramath.org *http://www.starfall.com *http://www.henryanker.com *http://www.turtlediary.com * http://pbskids.org/lions/stories * http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/unmatching/index.html * http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ * http://www.funbrain.com/brain/MathBrain/MathBrain.html * http://www.switchzoo.com/ * http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html *http://theandrewslibrary.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6 5:dra-list&catid=34:andrews-content (Gives a list of books at each reading level— will help with selecting appropriate books)
Practice these words daily! Make flashcards if needed. Complete Dolch Word List Divided by Level Pre-primer a and away big blue can come down find for funny go help here I in is it jump little look make me my not one play red run said see the three to two up we where yellow you
Primer all am are at ate be black brown but came did do eat four get good have he into like must new no now on our out please pretty ran ride saw say she so soon that there they this too
under want was well went what white who will with yes
Grade One after again an any ask as by could every fly from give going had has her him his how just know let live may of old once open over put round some stop take thank them then think walk were when
Grade Two always around because been before best both buy call cold does don’t fast first five found gave goes green its made many off or pull read right sing sit sleep tell their these those upon us use very wash which
why wish work would write your
Grade Three about better bring carry clean cut done draw drink eight fall far full got grow hold hot hurt if keep kind laugh light long much myself never only own pick seven shall* show six small start ten today together try warm
In a single subject notebook, write 3-5 sentences for each topic.
JUNE Sun
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This summer, I would like to… 24 25 My favorite place to read is…
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28 I feel happy when…
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What makes a good friend? 26 I am good at…
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2 3 It drives me crazy when…
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4 4th of July means…
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8 9 Something special about me is…
10 When I’m bored, I….
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12 My favorite animal is…
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16 If animals could talk….
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18 I wish I could…
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22 Favorite movie… Why?
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24 25 Favorite book… Why?
26 Favorite game… Why?
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JULY
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30 31 I like when my teacher…
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5 At the beach…
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1 I wish my parents would…
7 8 It makes me laugh when…
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9 I like summer because….
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13 14 If I had a magic school bus, I would go to….
19 20 What should your 2nd grade teacher know about you?
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23 Make a list of your top 5 summer memories
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Make a list of 8 places you would like to go.
21 22 Make a list of things you look forward to doing in 2nd grade.
JULY/AUGUST
Have a great summer!
