2nd Grade
Home Base
February 2nd, 2024
2A Victoria Bolaños
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:
Releen sus libros en series.
Encuentran figuras literarias (metáforas y comparaciones)
Utilizan voz de experto al momento de leer sus series favoritas (respetan signos de puntuación)
Estudian la forma en que el autor termina su libro, se preguntan: ¿Por qué el autor eligió terminar el libro o la historia de esa manera?, ¿Cuál es la lección que me quiere mostrar el autor del libro?
Cartel de la semana
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
If your child will bring new ANS jackets or water bottles, please make sure that they're labeled.
Remember to send healthy snack and lunch. Energetic drinks are NOT allowed.
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