Shiloh Point Elementary Mrs. Bethany Smith Room 2522

University of Georgia-Early Childhood Education On my 7 th year in Forsyth County in 3 different grades: 1st, 3 rd and now 2nd. Received my masters in Curriculum and Instruction at The American College of Education My husband works in Special Education and coaches basketball at Cambridge High School. Grew up in South Georgia (Moultrie) and moved to Gwinnett in 2002, now living in Cumming. About Mrs. Smith

7:10-7:40 Arrival and Morning Work 7:40-8:25 RTI 8:25-8:40 Snack/Bathroom 8:40-9:00 Reading Mini-Lesson 9:00-10:00 Daily 5 & Guided Reading 10:00-10:20 Math Mini-Lesson 10:20-10:40 Guided Math 10:45-11:30 Session 2 Specials Monday- PE (big gym) Tuesday- Art Wednesday- PE (big gym) Thursday- Art Friday- Career Counseling *** Social Studies and Science will be integrated into our Reading/Writing time. Experiments/Projects will be done on Friday afternoons (this could change throughout the year). 11:35-12:05 Lunch at table 7 12:10-12:20 Number Talk/Read Aloud 12:25-12:45 Recess 12:50-1:15 Guided Math continued 1:15-1:30 Grammar 1:30-2:00 Writing 2:00-2:15 Pack up/ Clean up/ Dismissal

Reading Centers: Tuesday or Wednesday 9:00- 9:30 as needed. Work with individual or group of students based on need. Could possibly come and read, work on fluency, or specific skill with phonics. Clerical work: cut out lamination, organize scholastic books, cut out and put together Reading books, etc. Mystery Reader: Come on Fridays 10:20-10:40 (before specials) We will make a calendar for volunteers, but won’t start until after Quarter 1 to develop routines!! If a volunteer is not needed, I will always whomever is signed up for that day.

Positive reinforcement – Team Points – Marbles for Compliments Behavior Chart All children begin the day on green., but could move up to Blue for good choice, or purple for great choice. Yellow- Warning Orange- walk 5 minutes at recess and mark in conduct card Red- Miss entire recess, mark in conduct card, and parent contact. Please check your child’s agenda daily and sign. BYOT: Students must follow the BYOT contract or lose privileges with their device. We are learning as a class how to incorporate technology into our learning.

Homework  Read daily-Listen to your child read and read to your child. Let this be a special time of making memories.  Study math facts-use flash cards, play War (5-10 minutes a day). Check out 2 nd grade Academic website.  Spelling: We will focus on a specific spelling pattern each week and will receive 5 sight words to practice at home. Spelling tests will be on Friday.  Math: We will have a weekly calendar. It will be sent home every Monday. We will start Sept. 8 th.  Science/Social Studies that require paper assignments to be returned will be written in your child’s agenda on the day assigned.  Homework will also be in the Parent Corner for each week.

itsLearning Website: The Parent Corner will give you information each week and the Blog will be a reflection of the week. Both will be up by Friday or Monday.The Parent Corner Take-home folder. Please send in a note for any transportation changes or excuses for absences. No s or phone calls please. me at Website: on itsLearning (will send website each week)

Before You Leave -Sign up for PTA and Dad’s Club near the front lobby. -Sign up for Battle of the Books across from the media center!