Second Grade Curriculum Night: Creating a Positive Learning Environment

1. Second GradeCurriculum NightAugust 23, 2012 Mrs. ManuelitoMiss McGill Mr. Moffett Mrs. Schock

2. Attendance/Dismissal Attendance • Please make sure that students arrive promptly at 7:40 am • Absences must be communicated through the front office Dismissal • Any changes to a child’s normal dismissal routine must go through the front office by 2:00 pm • Please review the new bus policy

3. PBISCreating a Positive Learning Environment School-Wide Expectations *Practice Respect *Act Responsibly *Work Together *Safety Matters Clip Chart • Each day, students begin on ready to learn • They can move up on the chart for making good choices, or down for making choices that need to be reconsidered

4. PBISCreating a Positive Learning Environment • Steps up the clip chart • Blue- Good Day • Black- Great Job • Purple- Outstanding Students are rewarded for their outstanding days. • Steps down the clip chart • Yellow- Warning and redirection • Orange- Refocus desk to reflect on choices and making a plan. • Red- Refocus desk in another teacher’s classroom.

5. Home Folder • PLEASE check your child’s home folder daily for any new information! • Monthly Calendar- tells you where your child landed on that day based on the clip up/clip down chart and important dates. This stays in your child’s folder so that we are able to fill it out daily. • This is a way for teachers to communicate with parents. • You can also send us a note inside the folder as we check them daily too.

6. HomeworkYour involvement is key to your child’s success this year. • Parents are a child’s first and most important teacher, and the most important things parents do for their children’s education occur at home. • A homework packet is sent home on Thursdays and is due back on Wednesdays. • Reading Homework Please read with your child for 20 minutes each night and record the book title and your signature each day • Spelling Homework The weekly spelling words will be listed on the reading homework (half page). Pick one activity from the Spelling Tic Tac Toe board to do each night • Math Homework Four practice pages that are aligned to our current math lessons • It is graded on completion so please make sure your child completes each page fully.

7. Resources

8. English Language Arts • Common Core Standards • Key Ideas and Details • Craft and Structure • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas • Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity • The BIG 5 • Phonemic awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Comprehension • vocabulary

9. Writing • Writers’ Workshop We follow a consistent routine beginning with a writer’s meeting, followed by independent writing time, and closing with a brief sharing time. • Types of Writing • Opinion Pieces • Informative/ Explanatory texts • Narratives

10. Kyrene Math Philosophy…Cognitively Guided Instruction “The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple!” • Mathematical skills used as tools to solve meaningful problems • Flexible thinking and multiple strategies are encouraged • Talk, represent, and write about math • Work in pairs, individually, and/or groups

11. Math Common Core • Numbers and Base Ten • Operations and Algebraic Thinking • Measurement and Data • Geometry • Math practices include persevering, attending to precision, and constructing viable arguments

12. Place Value • Understanding that the digits in a three digit number stand for hundreds, tens, and ones • Skip counting by 5’s, 10’s, and 100’s within 1000 • Mentally adding 10 or 100 to any given number • Use place value properties to solve addition and subtraction equations

13. Problem Solving • Embedded in everything we do in our classrooms • Writing expressions and equations to represent the problem and showing how they solved the problem • Sharing their strategies and solutions with each • other • Assessed on a monthly basis • Fluently solving problems within 100 (double digit addition and subtraction), using concrete drawing or models to solve problems within 1000 (triple digit addition and subtraction)

14. Student Examples

15. Parent Tips… • Believe that your child can successfully learn mathematics • Expect your child to work hard to learn mathematics • Have your child explain the problem and his thinking out loud and show all work • Practice basic addition and subtraction facts • Help your child connect math with daily life and point out your own activities that involve math • Keep open communication between school and home

16. Health Harcourt Curriculum • Body Systems • Personal Hygiene • Making Healthy Choices

17. Technology • 7 laptops and 2 desktop computers in each classroom • Smartboard, projector, and document camera • Book Flix • Dreambox • Kidspiration • Pixie • PowerPoint • Project-based learning • Digital Portfolios

18. Science Units of Study • The Human Body • Insects and their life cycles • Air and Weather • Matter and Energy

19. Social Studies Units of Study: • Government • Map skills • Environmental studies • The Revolutionary War • World Cultures

20. For More Specific Curriculum Information: www.kyrene.org • Departments • Curriculum and Learning Resources • Curriculum Components and Content Area • Adopted Curriculum

21. Let’s Have a Great Year!