Pamela Robertson
Welcome to Second Grade!
A Quick Note For My Class:
Week of: August 25th- August 29nd
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We will begin MAPS and DIBEL testing this week.
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Friday, 8/29: Dress of Choice Day
- Monday, 9/1: No School/Labor Day
- MUSIC is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: Character Ed
- Scholastic Book Orders:
- Shop our class page:https://orders.
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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 |
UPCOMING EVENTS/DATES:
August:
- Monday, 8/11 and Tuesday, 8/12, Meet and Greets
- Wednesday, 8/13, First Day of School
- Wednesday, 8/20, Picture Day
- Monday, 8/25 Math MAPS testing
- Friday 8/29 Dress of Choice
September
- Monday, 9/1, Labor Day - NO SCHOOL
- Thursday, 9/4, Curriculum Night
- Friday, 9/19, Professional Development - NO SCHOOL
October
- Tuesday, 10/7 and Thursday, 10/9, Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Wednesday, 10/8, Picture Retakes and Class Pictures
- Friday, 10/10, Comp Day - NO SCHOOL
- Monday, 10/14-Friday, 10/17, Fall Break - NO SCHOOL
Weekly Curriculum:
Reading (CKLA):
Mrs. Robertson'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. Robertson's math group:
- Lesson 55-2 Written Assessment 10 Measuring to the Nearest Foot
- Lesson 56 Drawing a Number Line Drawing Line Segments to the Nearest Inch Locating Points on a Number Line
- Lesson 57 Making Polygons on a Geoboard Identifying the Angles of a Polygon
- Lesson 58 Adding Three or More Single-Digit Numbers Identifying the Associative Property of Addition
- Lesson 59 Naming a Fractional Part of a Set
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
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.
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
