Welcome to Mrs. Thomson's 2nd grade class!

MRS. THOMSON'S CLASS - ROOM 204

Week of : May 6 - May 10, 2024

Important Information:

Please send your student with a water bottle, and a nut free snack daily. I don't have water cups at school and a lot of students don't have water bottles. Please have your child bring his/her water bottle home each night to rinse out. Children are leaving water bottles on their desks for the whole week without washing them. I will continue to remind and hand them their water bottle to put in their back packs.

To avoid lost or broken student items please leave toys and personal items at home.
Please label all student items with your students name & grade level.
Dress for the weather! Don't forget labeled coats, hats and gloves when necessary.!
Please make sure that your child has a snack to bring to class and two snacks if he/she goes to BASE after school. The students are really hungry by snack time; especially if they don't like the school lunch or didn't eat that much of it.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday April 30 - Wednesday, May 8 - EOY Testing
Thursday, May 9 - Butterfly Pavilion Field Trip - Here is the link to pay and fill out the permission form Link for Field Trip: Field Trip Payment and Form
Friday, May 10 - Spirit Wear
Friday, May 17 - Dress of Choice
***Monday, May 20 - Field Day - 8:20 am - 10:45 am - This is a CHANGE!!!!
Thursday, May 23 - Last Day - End of the Year Celebration - Pizza Party - Sing Up Genius is coming soon!!!! Dismiss at 11:30 am

This week is STEM for our class! Rotation SPANISH Friday !!!

Mrs. Thomson's MATH GROUP: Homework will be done in class rest of year!

Mrs. Thomson's READING GROUP:

5/10- Vocabulary test

SPECIALS (daily changes) STEAM (weekly changes)

SPECIALS: PE, SPANISH, CHARACTER ED., AND LIBRARY

Monday - PE
Tuesday - Spanish
Wednesday - Character Ed
Thursday- Library
Friday - Rotation Day - SPANISH

STEAM: Science/Engineering, Technology, Art, Music -

Week 1(RED) -
Week 2(ORANGE) - STEM this week!!!
Week 3(GREEN) -
Week 4(BLUE)-

Weekly Curriculum:

Reading(Wonders): Unit 6 WEEK 4!

Genre : Expository Text

Stories : "The Life of a Dollar Bill"
Phonics: vowel team syllables
Comprehension Skills: problem and solution
Novel Study: Charlotte's Web- By E.B. White

Math (Saxon)

MAPS TESTING!!
Lesson 123A Telling and Showing Time to the Quarter Hour
Lesson 124A Identifying and Showing Transformations: Translations, Rotations, and Reflections
Math review tally marks, clocks, two-digit subtraction with and without regrouping, and expanded form.

Fact Practice/Stations - Doubles, + 0,1, and 2, +9, doubles +1, sums of 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18

Subtracting 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9's!
Fact Practice Stations
Multiplication x0, x1, x2, x3, x5

Practice multiplication at home with flash cards or make your own!

Writing and Grammar

Writing: Personal Narrative

Journal Writing

Shurley Grammar : Complete Sentence, Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, homophones, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, articles, complete and incomplete sentences, and declarative sentences.

Writers Workshop and Step Up to Writing

Handwriting Practice

Core Knowledge: Short Stories /Poetry

History : Modern Japan

Modern Japanese Civilization
Geography: Locate relative to continental Asia: “land of the rising sun”
A country made up of islands; four major islands
Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan
Mt. Fuji
Tokyo
Culture
Japanese flag
Big modern cities, centers of industry and business
Traditional craft: origami
Traditional costume: kimono

Science: Insects

Insects can be helpful and harmful to people. Helpful: pollination; products like honey, beeswax, and Insects
Insects can be helpful and harmful to people.

Helpful: pollination; products like honey, beeswax, and silk; eat harmful insects

Harmful: destroy crops, trees, wooden buildings, clothes; carry disease; bite or sting

Distinguishing characteristics

Exoskeleton, chitin

Six legs and three body parts: head, thorax and abdomen

Most but not all insects have wings.

Life cycles: metamorphosis

Some insects look like miniature adults when born from eggs, and they molt

to grow (examples: grasshopper, cricket).

Some insects go through distinct stages of egg, larva, pupa, adult

(examples: butterflies, ants).

Social insects

Most insects live solitary lives, but some are social (such as ants, honeybees,

termites, wasps).

Ants: colonies

Daily Schedule:

8:00-8:25 Morning Work/Morning Meeting/Announcements
8:25-9:20 Math
9:25-10:25 Reading
10:30-11:15 STEAM (Science/Engineering, Technology, Art, Music)
11:20-12:00 - Recess/Lunch
12:00-12:40 Writing
12:40 -1:25 Specials (Spanish, Library, Character Education, PE)
1:25- 1:45 Core Knowledge/History/ Science
1:45 -2:00 - Recess/Snack
2:00 - 2:30 - Intervention

2:20 - 2:45 - History/Science/Core Knowledge
2:50 - 3:20 - History/Science

3:20 - 3:30 - Pack Up/Prepare for Dismissal

MEET MRS. THOMSON!

Welcome to Room 204 Mrs. Thomson's class! I am very excited to be your child's second grade teacher for the 2023-24 school year! It's going to be a great year! I am excited, happy, and grateful to spend this year getting to know your student and your family!

This is my sixth year teaching as a classroom teacher. I taught 5th grade at Soaring Hawk last year and was a second grade math/reading interventionist in the Chicago area. I've also taught third and fourth grade, subbed K-12, and high school English for a few months. This is my first year teaching at Aspen View Academy. I really appreciate the warm welcomes I've received so far.

My family moved from the Chicago area (where I'm originally from) to Castle Rock a year ago. I love the sunshine streaming through my windows most days here. I'm married to my wonderful husband, Rob, and have 8 year-old twins, Luke and Lauren, who currently attend AVA. My oldest son Marcus is married to my sweet daughter-in-law Ileana. They are preparing to head back East to pursue their careers in engineering and journalism. We have one spoiled furry family member named Pickles, who is 10 years old. We really like the Castle Rock area. There is so much to do! Family is the most important thing in my life. I enjoy spending quality time with them, baking (LOVE the holidays!), playing the piano, learning to play the J Bass guitar, painting, exercising, and hiking. I love to travel and have lived overseas for 4 years in Tokyo, Japan! I feel that my experience prepared me becoming the passionate, dedicated, and culturally diverse educator I am today.

Looking forward to a wonderful year with your 2nd grader and partnering with you!

Name: Tori Thomson
Position: 2nd Grade Teacher
Email: tthomson@aspenviewacademy.org