Welcome to the 2nd Grade Page!

Dear Parents and Students,

     Welcome to the 2nd grade page!!!  Below you will find all the information you need for the second grade classrooms for the  2019-2020 school year.  We are excited to begin the year, and we are looking forward to a great fall with all of your children.  On this website, you will find information regarding your child's curriculum, as well as any important dates that may be upcoming for your class or for the second grade students, such as field trips, presentations, or events.    Make sure to check for monthly updates on what will be covered in Math, Literacy, and PBIS.  Information about any important events or dates can be found in the Calendar or the Announcements Feed. Links are down below for extra practice in reading and math. We look forward to a wonderful year of learning!!

Sincerely, 

Ms. Ali, Ms. Razza, Ms. Desena, Ms. Haggar, Ms. Gluhkman, Ms. Nicolette, and Ms. Xhelo,  

2nd Grade Teacher Team

  

Grade and Classroom Updates and Announcements

  • Updates for the Fall Term!

    Looking into October....

    Hello Parents!

    We are coming into the end of September and excited about starting our first big units of study.   A few things to keep in mind:

    ~ We will be sending home nightly homework and notices, so please continue to check your child's backpack nightly for any important changes. Permission slips and field trip forms are often time sensitive and it helps us out if all documents to be signed are returned quickly :) 

    ~ We will be having a Parent Workshop towards the end of October on Parent Tuesday, and we welcome all parents to come in for help or questions.  Literature will be sent home regarding the topic. 

     ~ Our first field trip is scheduled for October.  Because of bus space limitations, we are able to bring a maximum of 2 parent chaperones per class during a trip.  Let your child's teacher know you are interested. Parent chaperones that come along must help the whole classroom in bus travel, and navigating  the students safely in the field trip areas.  Preferably parents need to be able to communicate with the students in order to help them safely throughout the trip,. 

    ~ As always, if you have any questions or need to communicate with your child's teacher, please email their school email or contact them on the Parent Dojo Portal. If you are still having trouble connecting with your child's teacher, please let them know.  We love having our parents look in on Dojo to see what we are up to in class!

    As well, here are some important dates to remember:

    SEPT 30–OCT 1 Rosh Hashanah (Schools closed)

    OCT 9 Yom Kippur (Schools closed)

    OCT 14 Columbus Day (Schools closed)

     

    Here's looking forward to a great fall!

    2nd Grade Teachers

    Second Grade

  • Updates for November!

    Hello Parents,

     

    As we move into November remember that we will be completing the first units of studies in both Reading, Writing, and Math, and the grades for these unit assessments will be available for parent teacher conferences.  Report cards will be available in late November, so please make sure to come to our Parent Teacher conferences on Thursday, November 16th to get an update of your childs progress as grades will not be sent home at this time. We look forward to talking with many parents about how your child is doing in class.

      

    Other important dates to be aware of:

    November 5th- Election Day Students will not be in attendance.

    November 11th- Veterans Day Observed.  Students will not be in attendance

    November 28-29th Thanksgiving Day-  Students will not be in attendance

    As always if there are any questions or concerns, make sure to contact your classroom teacher through DOJO or their Department of Education email.  Looking forward to a great November!!!

     

    The Second Grade Team

    Second Grade
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Second Grade Calendar Events

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PBIS Monthly Themes

November Theme:   Helpful 

Each month our students will be covering a PBIS theme for behavior and community building.  We will be reading books, doing activities, and having discussions around these monthly themes. 

We invite our families to participate in these themes with their child at home as well.  These can be family discussions about what this theme means to you, or activities that help your students practice this behavior outside of the classroom or in their communities.

For example: being responsible at home by helping with the chores, or helpful in the community by helping out a neighbor or a family member. 

We look forward to teaching these behaviors to our students!

The  Monthly Themes  for the year are:

September– Responsible

October – Safe

November – Helpful

December – Giving  

January – Kind

February – Respectful

March – Trustworthy

April – Confident

May – Noble

 

ELA Monthly Themes

November: 

As we are going into the fall season, we will be finishing our non fiction reading and writing unit to learn about communities, and will be beginning a narrative unit.  Students need to return their On the Farm books, and will be receiving their independent books "Alexander, who used to be Rich Last Sunday, and A Chair for My Mother".  Students will be writing narrative stories for the month of November and December. 

Our Big idea will be Decision Making, so students will be discussing how and why people make decisions. They will be writing personal narratives about characters who have to make a decision. 

 

Math Monthly Themes

November :  Topic 3 and 4; Addition Strategies up to 3 Digits 

The topic for November will be adding and subtracting strategies for 2 digit addition up to 100

Students should be able to fluently add up to 100 using a variety of strategies with numbers of both 2 and 3 digits. 

It is important that students understand their place value, be able to represent numbers in different ways, and be able to add in several ways. 

In addition, continue with these strategies at home nightly: 

 

It is VERY important that students continue to work on their basic fact fluency 1-20 to prepare for 3rd grade and multiplication strategies!!  This includes strategies such as:

1) doubles facts

2) make a 10 facts

3) fact families. 

These fluency exercises and problems help many students with their understanding of 2 and 3 digit addition and subtraction concepts.  They should be reinforced and practiced throughout 2nd grade, regardless of the current math unit.  We will be conducting a parent workshop on Math Fluency activities at the end of the month for our parent workshop.  More information on this workshop will be send home via your assigned classroom teacher. 

 Please make sure they are practicing these concepts at home with their nightly homework, as well as additional practice worksheets that we have given them.  We have provided some online links for extra practice!

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