Welcome to Second Grade!
Week of October 27, 2025
- 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:
October
- Friday, 10/31, Dress of Choice and Fall Party
- Friday, 10/31, Costume Parade, 2:30-3:15 - More details to come!
November
- Friday, 11/7, Pay for Dress, Red, White and Blue
- Friday, 11/21, Dress of Choice
- Monday, 11/24-Friday, 11/28, Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL
December
- Friday, 12/12, Spirit Wear
- Thursday, 12/18, Dress of Choice and Holiday Party
- Friday, 12/19, Teacher Workday - NO SCHOOL
- Monday, 12/22-Tuesday, 1/6, Winter Break - NO SCHOOL
Weekly Curriculum:
Reading (CKLA):
Mrs. Huffman's reading group: Skills Unit 3:
Skills Unit 3
- Lesson 1 Spelling Alternatives: The /ae/ Sound and Its Spellings
- Read “A Letter from the Publisher”
- Lesson 2 Spelling Alternatives: Introduce /ae/ › ‘ai’ and ‘ay’
- Read “The Spelling Bee”
- Lesson 3 Spelling Alternatives: Introduce /ae/ › ‘a’ and Tricky Spelling ‘a’
- Read “And Then There Were Two”
- Lesson 4 Spelling Alternatives: Tricky Spelling ‘a’ › /a/ and /ae/
- Close Read “Born to Spell?”
- Lesson 5 Assessment: Spelling Assessment
Math (Saxon)
Mrs. Huffman's math group:
- Lesson 30 Estimating Sums and Differences
- Investigation 3 More About Pictographs
- Lesson 31 Writing Directions
- Lesson 32 Reading and Writing Numbers Through 999,999
- Assessment 5
Writing:
Current Writing Topic: How To Writing
- Review paragraph conventions and writing
- Writers Workshop and Step Up to Writing
- Handwriting Practice
Knowledge Unit 7 - Westward Expansion
Lesson 1 Going West
Lesson 2 Mr. Fulton’s Journey
Lesson 3 The Journal of a Twelve-Year-Old on the Erie Canal
Lesson 4 The Story of Sequoyah
Lesson 5 The Trail of Tears
Pausing Point
Lesson 6 Westward on the Oregon Trail
Lesson 7 The Pony Express
Lesson 8 Working on the Transcontinental Railroad
Lesson 9 The Buffalo Hunters
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: Westward Expansion
- Pioneers head west
- New means of travel Robert Fulton invention of the steamboat
- Erie Canal
- Railroads: the Transcontinental Railroad
- Routes west: wagon trains on the Oregon Trail
- The Pony Express
- Native Americans
- Sequoyah and the Cherokee alphabet
- Forced removal to reservations: the “Trail of Tears”
- Some Native Americans displaced from their homes and ways of life by railroads (the
“iron horse”) - Effect of near extermination of buffalo on Plains Indians
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.
