2nd Grade
Home Base
December 7, 2023
2nd Grade News
Dear Parents,
We are so excited we have come to this time of the year. Our Second Graders have done so much learning this half of the year, they have grown so much academically and physically. Next week we have a shorter week, on Friday December 15th we have early dismissal at 11:00 am.
We have a field trip coming up on Tuesday, December 12th, we are going to Finca El Hatillo in Tipitapa thanks to the Bolaños Castillo family. We need you to help us preparing a full lunch, snack, and water, hat, school shirt and jeans, tennis shoes. We will give you the details on the bus price and permission slip sometime this week.
For the last day of school, we will need you to send something to share with the class, we will have a picnic to celebrate, we are also decorating a picture frame so please send us little things like stickers, pompoms, wiggly eyes etc. Happy Holidays, we will see you next January 10th, 2024!!
Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
Readers will get to the ending of our Reading Unit. They will organize goal clubs, give feedback to the group members and they will celebrate their fluency and how to keep track of longer books.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
English Literacy: Readers will create their own club plan: Club plan chart. Working together in goal clubs chart.
Phonics: Students wil learn about the word part -tion and how it is often found at the end of long words and it usually represents the sound / shun/.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Readers can practice the different strategies using the following charts: Understanding Literary Language, Keeping track of longer books and Making your reading more fluent.
Phonics: Read a book you have at home and find words with the word part -tion.
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Los estudiantes aprenden hacer comparaciones entre libros, series y personajes para escribir nominaciones y lograr persuadir a sus lectores que sus libros son merecedores de premios.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
Los estudiantes, releen los libros aprendiendo a comparar partes del libro, libros en series y personajes. Escriben nominaciones, persuadiendo al lector que su libro es merecedor de un premio. De igual forma, continúan fortaleciendo el aprendizaje de agregar citas a sus cartas, como una forma de evidenciar sus opiniones.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
1.Releer libros en series, Sepo y Sapo libros 1, 2, 3, 4 y libros de Olivia 4 y 5
2. Hacerse preguntas ¿Por qué este libro merece un premio?, ¿Qué deben de saber los lectores sobre este libro?, ¿Qué razones y detalles importantes del libro respaldan mi opinión?
3. Pensar y planear, ¿Qué partes del libro puedo comparar?
4. Escribir carta de nominación (Pensar en un nombre para el premio del libro nominado)
5. Recordar utilizar palabras de transición, comillas cuando sea necesario, citas que refuercen la opinión, letras mayúsculas. Aquí lista de verificación.
4.Cartel convencer al lector
5.Cartel más fuerte, más largo y más convincente.
6. Ejemplo de nominación.
7.Formato de hoja
Mathematics
Learning Goal
2nd graders will predict the number of each color they will find in a bag of objects, then how often we get certain colors.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Our Tigers will be involved in graphing and analyzing the data collected with the bag of objects. We will also share and compare our findings. We will also create a classs graph, to find out which of the six colors showed up with the most frequency. We will solve problems based on student's data.
What mathematicians could be doing at home...
Science or Social Studies
Learning Goal
What tigers are doing at school...
Students will keep learning about urban, sub -urban and rural communities. They learn about how they are same and different, and what the pros and cons of living in each of them are.
What tigers could be doing at home...
Make a drawing of the urban, sub- urban and rural community and write a short description of each.
Social Emotional Learning Program
Learning Goal
Develop an understanding of others’ perspectives and feelings, Describe ways to show empathy and caring to someone, Consider how empathy relates to friendship.
What friends and learners are doing at school...
Empathy is the ability to identify with and understand people’s emotions—to feel what they feel. It is a precursor to compassion or when one actively tries to find solutions to help others. Empathy is linked with greater peer acceptance and positive relationships as students improve their prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping). In this lesson, students will think about how characters feel in a situation and role-play ways to show empathy and that they care
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
Model different ways to show empathy, such as asking follow-up questions to show interest, offering to listen to something they have to say, or providing encouragement. Reinforce that we can show we care by letting others feel their feelings and by being a good listener.
CONNECT
Important Dates
Dec. 11
No Swimming
All Classes Regular PE
Dec. 14
Last Day of After School Sports
Dec. 15
End of Year Experience
(11:00 am Dismissal)
Jan. 10
First Day
of School
Reminders
No Swimming for any grade level: Dec. 10- Dec. 15
Special Announcements
December - 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