Pamela Robertson
Welcome to Second Grade!
A Quick Note For My Class:
Week of: December 15th- Decemebr 18th
- Family History Project Due: Friday, December 5th
- Stuffy/favorite Christmas book Day: Wednesday, December 16th
- GRINCH Day and Pj's and popcorn December 17th
- Holiday Party and Free Dress of Choice: Thursday, December 18th
- Teacher Workday: Friday, December 19th
- Winter Break/No School: December 22nd-Janurary 2nd
- Scholastic Book Orders:
- MYSTERY READER LINK
- Shop our class page:https://orders.
scholastic.com/324HZG
Class code: 324HZG
STEAM SCHEDULE 10:00-10:45am
*WEEKLY ROTATION*
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Week 1 |
ART |
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Week 2 |
STEM |
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Week 3 |
MUSIC |
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Week 4 |
TECHNOLOGY |
Weekly Curriculum:
Spelling:
- No Spelling homework
Reading (CKLA):
Mrs. Robertson's reading group: Skills Unit 1:
Skills Unit 4
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- Spelling Words Practice
- Spelling Assessment
- Review & Practice
- Tricky Words Review
- Sound Spelling Alternatives & Tricky Spellings
- Spelling Tree
- Nouns (Common & Proper)
- Plural Nouns
- Capitalization & Punctuation
- Antonyms & Synonyms
- Action Verbs
- The Job Hunt Readings
- Flat Stanley chapter book reading & reading response journal
- Boost Reading
- IXL Learning
*Please be sure your child is reading for up to 20 min. daily at home!
Math (Saxon)
- Lesson 90-2 Written Assessment 17 Oral Assessment 9 Covering the Same Design in Different Ways Using Tangram Pieces
- Lesson 91 Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers (Part 2)
- Lesson 92 Writing Number Sentences to Show Equal Groups, Multiplying by 10
- Lesson 93 Counting by Quarters
- Lesson 94 Rounding to the Nearest Ten
- Lesson 95-1 Subtracting 7 Facts
- Lesson 95-2 Estimating and Counting Large Collections
- Lesson 96 Finding One Half of a Set With an Even Number of Objects
- Lesson 97 Finding One Half of a Set With an Odd Number of Objects
- Lesson 98 Estimating a Sum
- Lesson 99 Measuring Using Feet and Inches
- Lesson 100-1 Subtracting 8 Facts
- Lesson 100-2 Finding the Area of Shapes Using Pattern Blocks
- Lesson 101 Identifying, Describing, and Comparing Geometric Solids
- Lesson 102 Selecting an Appropriate Tool for Measuring Length
- Lesson 103 Multiplying by 1 Multiplying by 100
- Lesson 104 Finding Perimeter
- Lesson 105-1 Subtracting 9 Facts
- Lesson 105-2 Written Assessment 20 Writing Observations From a Graph
Writing:
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- Words or phrases that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch (word choice)
- Similes or metaphors that compare two or more things
- Rhyme
- Beat
- Rhythm
- Alliteration
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Poems to be familiar with:
- A limerick:
- Humorous poem with five lines
- Has an AABBA rhyme scheme
- Repeats the same rhythm in lines 1, 2, and 5, and in lines 3 and 4
- Acrostic poems
- A poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase
- Haiku
- The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
- Shape Poem
- Describes an object and is written in the shape of that object
- A limerick:
Lesson 1 Harriet Tubman, Part I
Lesson 2 Harriet Tubman, Part II
Lesson 3 The Controversy Over Slavery
Lesson 4 Abraham Lincoln
Lesson 5 The Division of the United States
Pausing Point
Lesson 6 The War Begins
Lesson 7 Robert E. Lee
Lesson 8 Clara Barton
Lesson 9 The Emancipation Proclamation
Lesson 10 Ulysses S. Grant
Lesson 11 The End of the War
Domain Review and Assessment
History: The Civil War
- Controversy over enslaved workers
- Plantations, plantation crops
- Harriet Tubman, the “Underground Railroad”
- Fort Sumter
- Northern v. Southern states: Yankees and Rebels
- Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
- Clara Barton, “Angel of the Battlefield,” founder of American Red Cross
- President Abraham Lincoln: keeping the Union together
- Appomattox Court House
- Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery
Science: Matter
- Introduction to Matter
- Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space
- There are many types of mater; solid, liquid, gas
- Properties and Uses of Matter
- Matter has properties that can be measured - size, weight, volume
- Matter can be sorted or classified, by properties
- Heating and Cooling Matter
- Water has three states: liquid, solid (ice) and gas (water vapor)
- The state of matter depends on temperature
- Heating or cooling a substance can change its properties
- Building with Matter
- Some objects are made from a single type of matter
- Other objects are made from different types of matter being combined or placed together
Parent Resources:
DIBELS Reading Assessment: is administered three times a year and also continuously monitored throughout. You will be receiving the results in Thursday folder 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 ( 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)
August/ September- RESPECT - Showing high regard for an authority, other people, self and country. Treating others as you would want to be treated.
October- Responsibility: Being honest and accountable in word and deed. Having a sense of duty to fulfill tasks with reliability, dependability and commitment.
November- Empowerment: We believe children must be equipped with the ability to make good decisions independently of adults. By internalizing the habits and behaviors that demonstrate responsibility, they will be empowered to lead successful, productive lives.
December- Sharing: Developing a willingness to share knowledge, experiences and time to enrich learning, give back to the community through school projects and constantly seek ways to improve through continuous input and feedback
January- Patience: We strive to develop Aspen View students with a level of perseverance and diligence that will instill the confidence needed to succeed in whatever endeavor our students undertake
February- Excellence: Striving to do the best in everything you do, while maintaining a positive attitude and a spirit of self-confidence
March- Compassion: Caring in action. Treating others with kindness, generosity and a forgiving spirit.
April- Teamwork: We will create an atmosphere that fosters collaborative and team-focused success to enrich our students and prepare them for high school, college and a collaboration driven marketplace
May- RESPECT - Showing high regard for an authority, other people, self and country. Treating others as you would want to be treated
