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October 13th, 2023

Aaron Rivera - October 09th

Parent-Student Handbook

Birthday Slip

2nd Grade News

Dear Parents, 

Another week went by so fast full of learning, noticing and wondering. Next week Tigers will be learning some more Symbols in Social Studies class, will be busy writing more and more nonfiction books, hooking their readers' interests, using plenty of descritions and using comparisons in their writings. In math class mathematicians will be using an open number line in order to model and solve problems with two digit numbers within a 100. Remember to help us create a flower garden behind our classrooms by sending a flower plant. Please take a look at this document which has the Strategies students learned in unit 1 and will learn in unit 2. Students can go back to these strategies as they solve their home connections so they can keep practicing them at home. 

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Writers will do more than one thing at once: The'll make writing interesting and keeping one's audience in mind. 

What readers & writers are doing at school...

English Lteracy: Teach to an audience chart. 

Phonics: The upcomig week students will learn that when a word has double consonants in the middle, the vowel in the first syllable is usually short. They will also sort words by te vowel sound in the first syllable, noticing the consonant (s) in the middle. UOSPH_G2U2_AC_TacklingLongWordsPartByPart_COLOR.pdf

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

Writers can write a nonfiction book about a topic they know a lot about. This might include chapters, diagrams, labels, table of contents and closure.

Phonics: Sort the following words by the vowel sound in the first syllable: dinner, hopping, supper, tapping, letter penny, puppet. 

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Los estudiantes aprenden a encontrar el significado de las palabras claves utilizando un pensamiento estratégico y flexible al momento de leer. 

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los lectores de textos informativos continúan estudiando las palabras claves que aparecen en los libros, utilizan toda la pagina y todo lo que saben para descubrir lo que probablemente significa, y una vez que han desbloqueado las palabras claves en sus libros; aprenden que volver a leer despacio y prestando atención a las palabras claves lograran aumentar aún más el conocimiento sobre el tema.

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

Los lectores continúan haciéndose preguntas:

Los lectores encuentran palabras claves en sus libros, la anotan en su cuaderno y escriben el significado que descubren (utilizando estrategias para desbloquear palabras claves)

Los lectores aprenden a releer y a sonar, practican que su lectura sea FUERTE Y PODEROSA. (Leer texto informativo y enseñar al estudiante que debe cambiar de voz , debe de hacer sonar los signos ortográficos y los sentimiento que el autor del libro desea que viva a través de la lectura) 

Lectura de palabras claves:

Algunas veces los lectores tienen dificultad para leer las palabras claves así que utilizan la estrategia de lectura leer palabras difíciles, mira toda la palabra silaba por silaba, vuelve a leer y se pregunta ¿se escucha bien?, usa combinaciones de vocales y se pregunta ¿me ayudaría un sonido diferente?

Cartel de la semana 

Mathematics

Learning Goal

2nd graders will use a measuring strip or an empty number line model to help adding lengths within 100.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will use a measuring strip or an open number line to model and solve problems with 2 digit numbers within 100.

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...

Next week in social studies, student will keep learning about symbols. What they represent and their meaning. 

What tigers could be doing at home...

Share with your parents at home about one of the symbols studied in class and mentioned 2 important facts you learned abou it. 

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

"1 Learners and friends understand that situations have emotional consequences.

2. Learners and friends think about the cause of emotional reactions.

3. Learners and friends use situational clues to help identify emotions in themselves and others.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Counselor explains how different situations allow us to have emotional reactions, for example we can feel different emotions both in class and on the playground. They also learned that each person can react differently to the same situation. Then, through collaborative work, children share with each other what emotional reactions they have in different scenarios.

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

Having a family conversation, you could share questions and answers such as: How would you feel if…you were going on a train?

How would you feel if…you saw a dog alone in the park?

How would you feel if…the teacher painted the classroom walls bright pink?

How would you feel if… your teacher asked you to sing in front of class?

How would you feel if… a group of second graders asked you to play on their soccer team?

How would you feel if…Hungry Tiger served vegetable pizza for lunch?


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Mrs. Valerie Wheelock

2A

Mrs. Dámaris Silva

2B

Mrs. Isamar Suárez

2C

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2A Paraprofessional

Ana Abrego

2B Paraprofessional

José Ballengers

2C Paraprofessional

Mrs. Lizette Richardson

Second Grade
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Mayling Estrada

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