1. Welcome to 2nd Grade Curriculum Night
Welcome to 2nd Grade Curriculum Night! Your 2nd Grade Team: Erin Barker Amy Horton Ashley Jones Amy Larson Kim Lustig Stephanie Smith

2. 2nd Grade Handbook Overview

3. Daily Folder Daily Calendar Homework 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
is preferred during the school day (aside from dismissal changes)
Alert your teacher if you have not received any s 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 , always call the front desk.

7. Grading Policy Graded Work Corrected Assignments
A: , 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
Accuracy
Fluency
Comprehension
Are they able to accurately read the words?
Use the 5 finger rule:
0-1 miscues = too easy
2-3 miscues = just right
4-5 miscues = too hard
Are they reading like they talk?
Appropriate pauses
Using expression
Pace that will allow them to comprehend the reading
Are they understanding the book?
Can they retell the story?
Can they answer who, what, when where, why and how?
Are they making connections?

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!!!