2nd Grade
Home Base
October 6, 2023
2nd Grade News
Dear 2nd Grade Families,
We are in October already and time is flying! Our students are busy reading, writing, learning new math things such as measuring different areas with connecting cubes. In Science for the end of the month we will study the relation between plants and bees. We ask you kindly if you could send us a flower plant with your child to create a flower garden behind our classes. If you are having trouble with the reading response please contact your class teacher for help.
Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
Writers will write for an audience, they first think of who their audience will be and then write the information that audience would want to know.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
English Literacy: Writers will continue writing about their Nonfiction books pointing out what's the information to teach to an audience. How to teach an audience chart Writing sample 1. Writing sample 2 Can you picture it?
Phonics: Students will learn that readers can tackle new words methodically, that means part by part. They will be tackling a few multisyllabic words, divided into syllables. In addition, they will will learn and practice how to break words into parts between two consonants in the middle. TacklingLongWordsPartByPart_COLOR.pdf
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
English Literacy: Writers can write about Nonfiction books adding details that the audience needs to learn.
Phonics Break the following words aparts using the strategies learned in class TacklingLongWordsPartByPart_COLOR.pdf:Traffic, trumpet, cactus, problem, tremendus, leafcutter, fragments, gardeners.
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Los estudiantes aprenden el significado de palabras desconocidas a través del contexto de la lectura.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
Los lectores de textos informativos estudian el significado de las palabras claves que aparecen durante la lectura, utilizan las características (detalles) que el texto les brinda para comprender mejor la información. Los lectores leen y estudian todo el contexto de la página para conocer el significado de una palabra desconocida y comprender mejor lo que el autor quiere informar.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Paso 1: Encontrar un libro informativo y antes de leer con solo observar la portada y el glosario predecir qué palabras claves podría encontrar en la información. (Hacer una lista de palabras en el cuaderno de español.
Recordar siempre hacer preguntas mientras se lee, se podría preguntar ¿ Cuáles son esas palabras claves que espero encontrarme?
Paso 2: Leer un libro informativo, prestar especial atención en las palabras claves (vocabulario desconocido), releer si es necesario y encontrar detalles (letras en negrillas, cuadros de texto, etiquetas, glosarios) o alguna otra información en toda la página que facilite la comprensión del texto.
3. Cartel de la semana
4. Recomendación de libro el gran cañón
Mathematics
Learning Goal
Students will be measuring objects using different tools to measure like unifix cubes, paper strips and finally number lines.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Students this week will transition from measuring with unifix cubes to measuring with paper strips marked in intervals of 5 and 10. Then students give way to number lines.
What mathematicians could be doing at home...
Science or Social Studies
Learning Goal
Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
What tigers are doing at school...
In social studies, students will keep learning about symbols of different countries and their meaning. They will investigate symbols of different countries around the world and what thery represent.
What tigers could be doing at home...
Research at home one symbol that represents a specific country and investigate what it means.
Social Emotional Learning Program
Learning Goal
"Friends and learners recognize their own and others’ emotions.
Friends and learners describe and demonstrate how emotions feel and look and sound.
Friends and learners foster awareness that emotions can vary in intensity—being strong or mild.
What friends and learners are doing at school...
Friends and learners use the emotion guessing game to demonstrate what basic emotions look, feel and sound like. Then the counselor describes the feeling thermometer to recognize when an emotion is strong or mild.
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
When you read a story you can ask the child: how does this character feel? What cues can you see, hear, or feel to understand the character's emotion?
CONNECT
Important Dates
Oct. 13
Regular School
Day
Oct. 14
Basketball
Tiger Fun Day
Oct. 18
11:00 a.m. Student Dismissal
Oct. 20
Feedback Folders
Sent Home
Oct. 24
Kindergarten
Parent Workshop
Oct. 27
The Magic of Books
Fall Festival
Reminders:
Please make sure students bring their ANS sweaters with their names on it. Our students visit many places and it will very hard for them to find them.
Home connections are submitted every Friday.
Please make sure students bring healthy snacks. Candies or Chocolate Bars are not allowed. Toys are not permitted.
Please make sure you send an email to the teacher notifiying any important information about your child regarding after school or any other important announcement before 12 pm. If there's a medicated drink recommended by your child's pediatrician, please let the ANS Clinic know and cc' the Homeroom Teacher.
Special Announcements
October - 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