August 24 Week 3

This Week's News

MAP Testing This Week

We will take our beginning-of-year MAP (Measure of Academic Progress) tests. Second grade students will take the Reading MAP test on Monday, August 24th. MAP Growth is designed to measure how well a student is learning critical skills. It gives teachers detailed, actionable information they can use to guide instruction and better support students. It measures progress over the school year and across school years in Math and Reading. Our students take the test for the first time in second grade and we will be working with them on testing procedures and instructions prior to starting next week.

You can help your child prepare by making sure they get a good night’s sleep the night before and they eat breakfast to fuel their bodies that morning. If your child is absent on the testing day, they will be making up the test when they return to school.

Important Dates Reminders

August 24th - Reading MAP
September 7th: No School (Labor Day)
September 7 - 11 : Grandparent's Week
September 10th: Yearbook pictures
September 14 - 18: Book Fair Week!
September 15th - PTA meeting at 4:30
September 15th - Cox Culture Night/Curriculum Night: 5-6:30

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Please feel free to send a water bottle with your child each day. Sport-top lids work best and prevent spills in the classroom.
Second grade will have a brief snack time around 10:30am each day. These must be healthy snacks to keep their minds and bodies ready to learn. Please refrain from anything that needs a utensil. It also helps if fresh fruit is pre-washed and cut. A peanut free snack is preferred.

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This week we are learning about:

Morning Meeting:

We will spend the month of August learning common expectations throughout our school building. We will focus on the different expectations for behavior in the hallway, classroom, bathroom, playground and cafeteria.

Reading Workshop:

We will read with a reading partner and learn how to monitor our comprehension by pausing and asking questions.

Social Studies:

This week in Social Studies, we will learn how we live responsibly and how citizen participate in government.

Writing Workshop:

In writing, our focus this week will begin going through the writing process by, planning, writing, and starting to edit.

Phonics/Grammar:

This week we will practice using the ff, ll, ss, and zz spelling patterns. In Grammar we will be learning about Nouns.

Math Workshop:

This week, our mathematicians will learn a variety of subtraction strategies to help them subtract within 20.

Topic 1 parent support: https://media.pk12ls.com/Savvas/Math/pub/fam/html/g02/envm0x7EB_fe_g02_tx_en_t01_overview.html

Science:

This week in Science, we will begin our Bubbles Lab and CER. Students will be creating their own bubble wands, make predictions about their bubble shapes, share their results with the class, and answer the question "does the shape of my bubble wand affect the shape of my bubble?"

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