1. We are so excited you are here!
Welcome to Open House!
We are so excited you are here!

2. Mrs. Blanchard & Miss Warne
Second Grade
How to contact us~
Mrs. Blanchard:
Miss Warne

3. CLASS RULES!! Follow directions quickly.
Raise your hand for permission to speak.
Raise your hand for permission to leave your seat.
Make smart choices!
Keep your dear teacher happy!

4. Attendance Matters
Please make sure your child is here every day and on time.
We start our day at 8:00.
If your child arrives after 8:20, they need to
go to the office and get a tardy slip.

5. Attendance Fact:
Krahn has been recognized by the Houston Chronicle as one of the outstanding schools in Houston. Our students scored very well on the 2014 STAAR assessment, but we did not achieve our distinguished rating from TEA because of our attendance rate.

6. Therefore, Krahn is working hard this year to raise our attendance rate. Students should only miss school for true illness. Please schedule out of town activities, vacations, etc., during scheduled school holidays. Missed days of instruction are difficult for students to make-up.

7. *Grading:
A E- Excellent
B S- Satisfactory
C N- Needs Improvement
D U- Unsatisfactory F
You can go into Parent Connect and see your child’s grades at anytime.
Major grades are worth 60%
Minor grades are worth 40%

8. Homework Homework is always due on Friday.
Check planner daily for assignments.
Students will earn a grade on the Report Card each nine weeks.

9. GT Referral
If you would like your child recommended for GT testing, please let the teacher know. Please let your homeroom teacher know that you are interested via by Friday.

10. * Reading -Students are placed in Guided Reading Groups;
Whole group mini-lessons/skill instruction
-Individual texts are used/basal readers
-Read “Take Home” books nightly once they are
sent and then return to school (15 min.)
-Read the weekly poem in Poetry Binder
-Must be able to read test on own (all subjects)
AVERAGE LEVELS:
-EOY Reading Level: 28/M
-EOY Fluency: words per minute

11. *Writing -Students will learn to write through the use of
The Writing Workshop: Prewriting, Drafting,
Revising, Editing, and Publishing of compositions.
-Students will learn to use the Six Traits of Good
Writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice,
Sentence Fluency, and Conventions
-Rubrics will be used in the grading of compositions
to let you know what skills are required/graded
on each piece of work.

12. *Word Work: -Spelling: we will learn the phonogram patterns
*Reading/Writing
-Spelling: we will learn the phonogram patterns
and discuss how they work to form sounds/words.
Spelling words will be in the planner.
-Vocabulary: we will build on our speaking,
reading, and writing of key words in the
English language.
-Word Wall: we will learn the most commonly
used words in the English language.

13. *Social Studies Students are learning about school rules,
citizenship, patriotism and communities
this nine weeks. They will also learn about the use of maps and globes in Geography as they locate and label cities, states, continents, and oceans. They will work on key information in
Workstation activities.

14. Second Grade Expectations Math
Coins
Money
Place value
2 and 3 dimensional shapes
Numeral Recognition to 1200
Counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
Addition (regrouping)
Subtraction (regrouping)
Graphs and categorizing data
Fractions
Time

15. Science This extra FUN subject will be addressed in isolation and cross curricular.
Our job is to make your child love Science!!
This is the subject area that will allow your child to touch, smell, feel and see the amazing world that they live in!
Topics explored this year:
Procedures
Safety
Tools
Matter and Energy
Force Motion and Energy
Earth and Space
Organisms and Environment

16. Sam Houston State University Bearcats
TEAM
TUESDAY!!!
Go Orange!
Sam Houston State University Bearcats
Each Tuesday WEAR Orange!!

17. Please wear
tennis shoes on PE days!!

18. Visitors Policy PTO Memebership
~Please sign in at the office and get a visitor’s tag
PTO Memebership
~$5.00 per family
~money raised benefits the children
~if you would like to volunteer please leave info with teacher
on PTO forms

19. Dismissal Walkers Car Riders Bus Riders Day Care
You must notify your child’s homeroom teacher or the office if there are any changes in dismissal procedures. Your child telling me is not enough and ing is not reliable.

20. Your trash is our treasure!
Giving Tree
Clorox Wipes
Stickers
Baggies
Books
Envelopes, stationary, fun pens
Your trash is our treasure!

21. 2014-2015 will be a great year! You can help!
Spend time reviewing school work.
Read with your child daily.
Ask questions, answer questions.
Praise every accomplishment.
Encourage best work.
Enjoy every minute.
Contact me with questions or concerns.
Let your child know that school matters!

22. Thanks for coming!