2nd Grade
Home Base

February 2nd, 2024

2A Victoria Bolaños

Parent-Student Handbook

Birthday Slip

2nd Grade News

Dear Parents, 


January left us and we are already getting into the February vibes!!!! We are working hard building positive relationships among our classes, getting ready for the Friendship Celebrations next February 14th. We have planned several things during the day: early in the morning High school students will come and create bond with our 2nd graders, then at their regular snack time we will share snacks for this special day. At the end of the day we get together in the carpet and exchange Valentines (students have to make them at home and bring on the 13th- make sure your child writes a card for each student) with everyone, we also have a guessing the Friend game, students will describe a friend using only positive features about that friend, the rest we have to guess who the friend is. Please check our next week's learning focus.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Our poets will finish their Poetry Unit. 

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Poets will revise their poets and work on their last revision before publishing. They will focus on alliteration, mood, precise words, rhyming and line breaks.

 Phonics: Word builders will learn that they can use what they know about spelling long vowel E in little words like eat to spell bigger words like cheater. In addition, they will learn common patterns with long I that can help them spell hundreds of other words. How to Spell Words with Long Vowels

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

Writers can check these charts and continue editing and revising before they have their final masterpiece to publish. Reading poetry.

Phonics: Have students read a book and find words with the long E and I sound. 

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Los estudiantes aprenden el arte que utiliza el autor para atrapar a los lectores con la serie. 

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los estudiantes comenzarán a releer un libro de su serie y participarán en

investigaciones y estudiarán la forma en que los autores utilizan sus palabras,

el lenguaje figurado, la puntuación y los patrones para escribir sus series.

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

Lectores en casa:

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Students explore measurement, discovering that the size of the unit of measurement impacts the number of units necessary to measure a given object.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Students will work ratios and proportional reasoning, which extends into fractional measurement . These activities lay the groundwork for the multiplicative comparison and proportional reasoning skills expected in later grades.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

Scientists will end the science unit by presenting their projects in class and during Big question Day. They will also start a new Inquiry in social studies in which they will discuss the relationship between rivers and people.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Create an interview for your parents with at least 5 questions about how and why rivers are important to people.

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Friends and learners learn to attend to messages through active listening and responding with verbal and nonverbal communication. 

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Friends and learners practice listening and responding to promote more positive group interactions

Friends and learners listen to and support one another with eyes, ears, mouth, and body language.

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

Notice Communication Do’s and Don’ts with the characters in stories you read in class.

CONNECT

Important Dates

Feb. 6

Retake Photo
Session

Feb. 10

AASCA Soccer Tiger Fun Day
8 - 11 a.m.

Feb. 14

Frindship
Celebration

Feb. 16

Friday Feedback sent home

Feb. 23

No School

Reminders

February - 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