1. Back to School Night Mrs. Kennedy’s second grade 2015

2. Morning Routine HNN – Hillside News Network Calendar Word Work Snack - Healthy Choices

3. Reading Workshop Mini lesson Graphic organizers, compare characters, connections, comprehension, sequence of story Just right books Book Baggies – homework reading

4. Poetry Unit Different kinds of poems Read different poems Respond to poems Write their own poems

5. Author Studies Study the style of writing, patterns across books, write like the authors Kevin Henkes Eric Carle Patricia Polacco Cynthia Rylant

6. Writing Workshop Mini lesson Writing Notebooks and Folders Writing Units – narrative, small moments, opinion, fairy tales, revising & editing, nonfiction, poetry

7. Non-fiction Reading and Writing How to books Topics of interest How to read non-fiction Write their own non-fiction articles

8. Spelling Phonics First – multisensory approach to learning sounds and sounding out words Spelling patterns and sorting Spelling groups Spelling homework choices Spelling games and activities

9. Math Number Sense and Place Value Fluent in addition & subtraction Problem solving – multi step word problems Measurement & Data – Money, Time, Length, Graphs Geometry and Fractions Go Math homework pages

10. Social Studies The need for laws Recognize certain historical figures Holidays and American Symbols Economics Maps

11. Science Habitats of plants and animals Earth’s Materials Astronomy and Space Science Science Lab with Mrs. Jost

12. Health Personal Health Nutrition Safety

13. Extras Homework – Homework helper My Webpage My email address –kennedyj@nvnet.org Conferences – Dec. 2 – afternoon (12:40 day for students) Dec. 3 afternoon Dec. 10 - evening Class trips Class parents Birthdays

14. Reminders Please send in the home folder everyday. Please sign the homework helper & reading log. Please read and sign the Friday Notebook every weekend. Students should have something for the hallway in the morning. Please sign up for a conference time.

15. Thank you! Thank you for coming and I look forward to a great year with you and the children!