Curriculum Night 2 nd Grade Room 14 Sara Kaleo (Kuh-lay-oh) Derek McIalwain (Mackle-wayne)

 I do not believe in keeping students from recess. If they are held in it is a serious offense or they are very behind in work completion.  Time to reflect will occur during free time the last 30 minutes of the day. Management

 Goes home on Monday  Returned on Friday (Thursday if no school on Friday)  Read for 20 minutes a night  Homework incomplete if not signed by an adult  It is the students responsibility to get a signature Homework

 Benchmark Reading Program  Daily 5 Workshop  Guided reading books  Step Up to Writing  Friday is the spelling test. Reading, Writing, and Spelling

 Curriculum Goals  Use reference skills to determine word meanings  Find themes and the main idea of passages/paragraphs  Study expository and narrative texts and other genres  Work on making predictions, inference, and summarizing.

 Math Expressions by Houghton/Mifflin Harcourt  2 nd grade math goals:  Count by 10’s/100’s to 1,000  Place value to the hundreds  Quickly recall basic addition and subtraction math facts for sums through 20 Math

 Add and subtract two-digit numbers  Metric and U.S. customary units  Two and three dimensional figures  Graphs

 Maps: symbols, compass rose, labels, and key  Physical characteristics of places in the community  Timelines of events  Discussions to learn different points of view Social Studies

 Balance and Motion  Butterflies/Life Cycle Science

If your child is going to invite the whole class, just boys, or just girls, invitations can be handed out during school time.  If your child is not going to invite the whole class please have invitations ready the week before so they can be sent home in Monday folders. If this window is missed then I ask they be mailed. Birthday Invites

 Due to an increase of allergies; to protect both you and me, I ask that treats are purchased at the store. Thank you for respecting this request. Birthday/ Class Party Treats

 Specialist Schedule  Monday: Music at 2:40  Tuesday: PE at 12:35  Wednesday: Music at 2:40  Thursday: Library at 1:25  Friday: PE at 1:35

 Please send a family picture, words cut out from a magazine, pictures from a magazine, and special stickers in a Zip-loc by Friday, October 5 th. We will be decorating the covers of our journals. Journal Decoration