2nd Grade
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February 9th, 2024

Parent-Student Handbook

Birthday Slip

2nd Grade News

Dear 2nd Grade Families, 


February has gone super fast!! Our students have been very busy working on several learning activities, they celebrated their Art and Innovation Exhibition, they have been preparing their Science Engineering projects and they closed an important Unit in Poetry. Our poets had an amazing experience writing powerful poems, editing and revising with our Secondary Poets who came to support them this week. Our poets felt very proud of themselves posting their masterpieces on our Poetry Gallery Wall! This coming week also brings a great learning environment charged with full activities: Our students will start a brand new Reading Fiction Unit, they will be working in book clubs, thinking about the character and how they can transfer those skills into their real lives. During Math they will begin a new Unit, Counting to the Thousands and practicing Place Value Understanding. During Phonics they will continue learnng about inflectional endings, long vowels and spelling new patterns. Please remember that on Feb. 14th, each student needs to bring one valentine card for each classmate. Please remember to send the treats on the 13th to share on the 14th. Please find below our learning focus for next week.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

This week our readers will learn key strategies for envisioning the story with details. They will select the genre they prefer; they will imagine the characters, setting and what's happening. 

What readers & writers are doing at school...

English Literacy: Our readers will begin a new Fiction Unit. They will choose any book they prefer; mystery, humor, realistic fiction. We can go on reading adventures chart

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

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Los estudiantes aprenden sobre el lenguaje extraordinario del autor.

Y en conmemoración del 157 aniversario del natalicio de Rubén Darío estudian el poema Margarita Debayle.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

-Los estudiantes leerán un libro de su serie y estudiarán lo que el autor les

quiere decir a través de sus comparaciones y metáforas, también practicarán

su voz de experto al momento de leer.

-Los estudiantes leen el poema Margarita Debayle, para luego

escribir nominaciones a su poema favorito.

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

Lectores en casa:

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Students will imagine, visualize and count to 1000.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Studenst will understand that 1000 objects can be represented in many ways, depending on how those objects are organized and arranged. We will also build place value understanding as they count and organize numbers up to 1000 using a variety of manipulatives including craft sticks, base ten area pieces, and unifix cubes.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

What tigers could be doing at home...

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Friends and learners will practice making comments and asking questions to keep a conversation going using listening and speaking skills during a group-conversation game. We will also practice using body language to show we are interested in the conversation and our conversation partners.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Respond to others by replying to them or asking questions without interrupting.

Have a conversation by taking turns and being clear verbally and nonverbally.

Check that others feel heard and are included to make conversations clear, fun, and interesting to us all.

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

Write a sentence and draw a picture to show one thing you learned about another student in the class during your conversation.

CONNECT

Important Dates

Feb. 10

Tiger Fun Day - AASCA Soccer

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