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January 19th, 2024

Parent-Student Handbook

Birthday Slip

2nd Grade News

Dear Families, 


Welcome back to our Second Semester of this wonderful school year. We all hope you had a restful, beautiful and significant family time during the Holidays. We are excited to have our Tigers back to rock this second Trimester the best way we can. We will be launching new Units for our learners. For English Literacy, we will start our Poetry Unit, during Bridges, our mathematicians will learn all about measurement; during Phonics they will learn more about Word Builders and during Science will explore the physical properties of a variety of different objects. Remember 2nd A begins with swimming make sure they bring their swimming gear and notes if they won't be able to attend the class.



Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

2nd Grade Poets will focus on how poets see and hear the world differently and how children can and do see with "poets eyes". They will study natural objects . They will write many poems making comparisons and experimenting with line breaks. 

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Few Poems. Poetry paper. Strategies poets use to write poems Phonics: Students will learn that vowels can be the trickiest part of spelling multisylllabic words. They will listen carefully for the sounds in each syllable and use everything they know about vowels to figure out wich part or pattern to use in spelling multisyllabic words. In addition, they will use analogy to spell big words accurately, and they 'll use spelling strategies to check and fix up really important words. UOSPH_G2U3_AC_BuildItSpellIt_COLOR.pdf

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

2nd grade poets will write several poems based on the samples given.

Phonics: Read the following document and correct the spelling of the words in blue. UOSPH_G2U3S3_Poem_TinyBug_COLOR.pdf

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Los estudiantes desarrollan habilidades fundamentales como lectores de libros en serie: visualización, predicción y comprensión

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los estudiantes aprenden acerca de los personajes por sus relaciones con

otros personajes, y utilizan lo que saben sobre cada uno de ellos para hacer predicciones y comprenderlos mejor cada día.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Lectores en casa


-Los lectores pueden pensar y desarrollar ideas que no estén escritas en sus libros acerca de los personajes y aprenden a reflexionar sobre: ¿Por qué mi personaje siente, hace, dice o actúa de esa manera?.

-Luego, como expertos en un personaje, los lectores pueden entender a ese personaje como entienden a su mejor amigo, y pueden predecir las posibles respuestas.

-Los lectores buscan en sus libros en serie, información que pueda evidenciar sus respuestas y hacen anotaciones en sus cuadernos.

-Cartel estrategias de la semana

-Libro Dias con Sapo y Sepo, historia " El sombrero"


Mathematics

Learning Goal

Students will explore units of measure using traditionally and invented tools.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

The Teacher and the students will explore measuring the distance of the classroom using traditional and invented units of measuring. The results may vary, so they will see the need to use standardized units of measuring. 

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

Next week, we will start a new unit in Science where students will have the opportunity to explore the physical properties of a variety of different objects and then create their own experiment to then compare and contrast the similarities and differences of those materials. 

What tigers could be doing at home...

Find different materials in your house such as rocks, bottles, leaves, etc, observe them and use these questions to make observations about their properties. Material Observation Guide




Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Learners and friends name examples of effective and ineffective communication practices.

Learners and friends demonstrate attentive listening, responding, and taking turns with a partner.

Learners and friends use body language and words to show they are paying attention

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Learners and friends will practice speaking and listening attentively, responding thoughtfully, and taking turns while interviewing a buddy.

What friends and learners could be practicing at home...

Point out when you are using body language to show you are paying attention. Nodding, or saying “I agree” after someone finishes talking, are a few ways to show you are paying attention.

CONNECT

Important Dates

Jan. 22

Rising DALE
event

Feb. 2

Friday Feedback sent home

Feb. 6

Retake Photo
Session

Feb. 14

Frindship
Celebration

Reminders

January - Calendar

Swimming

Big Questions Day

Meet the Team!

Mrs. Valerie Wheelock

2A

Mrs. Dámaris Silva

2B

Mrs. Isamar Suárez

2C

Mrs. Ana Gabriela Bustos

Second Grade
Spanish Lead

Anacamila Zavala

2A Paraprofessional

Ana Abrego

2B Paraprofessional

José Ballengers

2C Paraprofessional

Mrs. Lizette Richardson

Second Grade
Inclusion Lead

Mayling Estrada

2nd Grade
Spanish Paraprofessional