Routines

CURRICULUM

READING: Our reading curriculum uses many resources, including the WONDERS reading program. Students will be learning many new skills and keeping an "interactive" notebook full of activities that practice these new skills. The second grade staff is very proud of a program we started awhile ago called "Walk to Read". This happens for 30 minutes at the beginning of our reading block. We divide students into smaller groups where your child will be working with other students from other classrooms focusing on a particular skill or level of understanding. Teachers move students as needed and curriculum is adjusted according to each child's needs.

Most days your child will have Literacy Centers to work on independently. A weekly agenda will provide them with choices and activities based around the weekly reading objectives. Science and Social studies concepts will be integrated during this time as well. We also will be doing creative writing, poem of the week, and "mentor" stories for grammar.

MATH: It's BRAND NEW! We will be learning together, for sure!! I will send home frequent updates and vocabulary explanations to help you understand and navigate through this first year. It will be very interesting, and I'm ready for the challenge!!

SPELLING: Spelling words are based on the reading themes and stories. I start the week with a pretest. Students who get all of their words right do NOT have to test again on Friday! These lists should be practiced at home during the week. There will be a spelling test every Friday.

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE: A lot of the curriculum will be integrated with reading. As a second grade team we have discovered some standards that need to be covered a little differently in a program we call "SUPER SCIENCE"! During the year on "short" weeks we will be concentrating on a standard with intensive focus on the material. Each teacher has become a "master" at a standard, and your child's class will move to a particular teacher for that standard.

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