Welcome to Second Grade!
Week of August 25th-29th, 2025
- Friday, 8/29, Dress of Choice
- Monday, 9/1, NO SCHOOL, Labor Day
- We will begin MAPs and Dibels testing this week.
- Be sure to check your student's math and reading teacher's websites
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- If you would like to place a book order please click the link below:
- https://orders.scholastic.com/YPZ8Y
- Our class code is: YPZ8Y
Important Information:
Tech is our rotation for STEAM this week! We have Library on Friday for our specials rotation.
- Please send your student with a water bottle and a nut free snack daily.
- To avoid lost or broken student items please leave toys and personal items at home.
- Please label all student items with your student’s name & grade level.
- Dress for the weather!
UPCOMING EVENTS/DATES:
August:
- Friday, 8/29, Dress of Choice
September
- Monday, 9/1, Labor Day - NO SCHOOL
- Thursday, 9/4, Curriculum Night
- Friday, 9/12, Spirit Wear
- Wednesday, 9/17, Boosterthon Fun Run
- Friday, 9/19, Professional Development - NO SCHOOL
- Friday, 9/26, Dress of Choice
October
- Tuesday, 10/7 and Thursday, 10/9, Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Wednesday, 10/8, Picture Retakes and Class Pictures
- Thursday, 10/9, Spirit Wear
- Friday, 10/10, Comp Day - NO SCHOOL
- Monday, 10/14-Friday, 10/17, Fall Break - NO SCHOOL
- Friday, 10/31, Dress of Choice and Fall Party
Weekly Curriculum:
Reading (CKLA):
Mrs. Huffman's reading group: Skills Unit 1:
Skills Unit 1
- Lesson 1 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Read “Kate Visits Doba”
- Lesson 2 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Read “The Campsite”
- Lesson 3 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Read “The Hike”
- Lesson 4 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Read “Bone Man”
- Lesson 5 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Read “The Big Dig”
- Lesson 6 Placement Assessment: Story Reading Assessment
- Lesson 7 Placement Assessment: Word Reading and Story Reading Assessments
- Lesson 8 Placement Assessment: Word Reading and Story Reading Assessments
- Lesson 9 Placement Assessment: Word Reading and Story Reading Assessments
- Lesson 10 Placement Assessment: Word Reading Assessment
Math (Saxon)
Mrs. Huffman's math group:
- Lesson 1 Months and Years Calendar
- Lesson 2 Counting Patterns
- Lesson 3 Reading a Clock to the Nearest Five Minutes
- Lesson 4 Number Line Thermometer
- Lesson 5 Fractions of an Hour
- Lesson 6 Addition
- Lesson 7 Subtraction
- Lesson 8 Addition and Subtraction Fact Families
- Lesson 9 Unknown Addends
- Lesson 10 Adding Three Numbers
- Investigation 1 Pictographs and Bar Graphs
Writing:
Current Writing Topic: Foundations of Writing
- Review paragraph conventions and writing
- Writers Workshop and Step Up to Writing
- Handwriting Practice
Knowledge Unit 1 - Fairy Tales and Tall Tales
Lesson 1 The Fisherman and His Wife
Lesson 2 The Emperor’s New Clothes
Lesson 3 Beauty and the Beast, Part I
Lesson 4 Beauty and the Beast, Part II
Pausing Point
Lesson 5 Paul Bunyan
Lesson 6 Pecos Bill
Lesson 7 John Henry
Lesson 8 Casey Jones
Domain Review and Assessment
Core Knowledge: Short Stories/Poetry
- Talk Iktomi Stories
- Beauty and the Beast
- Peter Pan
- Bed in Summer
- Tall Tales
- Buffalo Dusk
- Windy Nights
History:
Geography of the Americas
- North America
- North America: Canada, United States, Mexico
- The United States - Fifty states: Forty-eight contiguous states, plus Alaska and Hawaii - Current territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands)
- Mississippi River
- Appalachian and Rocky Mountains
- Great Lakes
- Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, West Indies
- Central America
- South America
- Brazil: largest country in South America, Amazon River, rain forests
- Peru and Chile: Andes Mountains
- Locate: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
- Bolivia: named after Simon Bolivar, “The Liberator”
- Argentina: the Pampas
- Main languages: Spanish and (in Brazil) Portuguese
Science:
Exploring Land and Water
- Hills, mountains, valleys, rock arches, plains, geysers, volcanoes, sand dunes, and beaches are types of landforms.
- Landforms can be created quickly or slowly.
- Quick changes to landforms include rockslides, landslides, mudslides, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
- Wind and water can erode rock, sand dunes, and beaches.
- There are different solutions to prevent water from changing the shape of rock and to prevent sand erosion.
- Glaciers are frozen forms of water.
- Flowing water moves earth materials.
- The land and water features of an area can be modeled.
- Water soaks into the ground.
- Geysers and volcanoes bring underground materials to Earth’s surface.
- Sand landforms include dunes and beaches.
- Sand dunes and beaches are formed in different ways.
STEAM SCHEDULE 10:00-10:45am
*WEEKLY ROTATION*
SPECIALS SCHEDULE: 1:30-2:15pm
*DAILY ROTATION*
Parent Resources:
DIBELS Reading Assessment: is administered three times a year and also continuously monitored through out. You will be receiving the results in Thursday folders after each benchmark.
- Want to know more about DIBELS click here: Parents Guide to Dibels
- Want to know more about NWEA click here: Family Guide To NWEA & Family Tool Kit for NWEA
- EPIC books: https://www.getepic.com/sign-in ( Lots of great online books to read we will use this in class.)
- Reading Rockets: Reading Rockets Articles & Tips for Reading at Home
- Vooks: Animated Video Books for Students to Read Along With
- Phillip S Miller Library: Library Parent Resources
- Storyline Online: Storyline Read Alouds
- Prodigy: Prodigy Practice for Math & Reading (another student favorite)
- Boddle: Boddle Math (students LOVE this)
- Prodigy: Prodigy Practice for Math & Reading (another student favorite)
- Xtra Math: https://home.xtramath.org/ (great for fact practice)
- Khan Academy:Kahn Academy ( great for math support with videos that explain skills and concepts)
GROWTH MINDSET:
Growth mindset is the idea that, with effort, it's possible to increase intelligence levels, talents, and abilities. Students who demonstrate a growth mindset believe their abilities develop over time, tend to seek out opportunities to gain new knowledge and broaden their skills, and do not typically shy away from challenges (Kazakoff & Mitchell, 2017).
Students with a growth mindset believe that intelligence can be developed. These students focus on learning over just looking smart, see effort as the key to success, and thrive in the face of a challenge.
Students with a fixed mindset believe that people are born with a certain amount of intelligence, and they can’t do much to change that. These students focus on looking smart over learning, see effort as a sign of low ability, and wilt in the face of a challenge.
