Pamela Robertson
Welcome to Second Grade!
A Quick Note For My Class:
Week of: September 2nd- September 5th
October
- Friday, 10/24, Trunk or Treat, 5:30-8 p.m.
- Friday, 10/31, Dress of Choice and Fall Party
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
- 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 |
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Week 2 |
STEM |
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Week 3 |
MUSIC |
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Week 4 |
TECHNOLOGY |
Weekly Curriculum:
Reading (CKLA):
Mrs. Robertson's reading group: Skills Unit 1:
Skills Unit 2
Skills Unit 2
- Lesson 12 Writing: Draft a Narrative Book Report
- Lesson 13 Writing: Edit a Narrative Book Report
- Lesson 14 Writing: Edit and Write a Final Copy
- Lesson 15 Review and Practice: Spelling Assessment
- Lesson 16 Unit Assessment: Dictation Identification, Comprehension, and Fluency
Math (Saxon)
Mrs. Robertson's math group:
- Lesson 70-1 Subtracting 2 Facts Solving a Problem by Guessing and Checking
- Lesson 70-2 Written Assessment 13 Oral Assessment 7 Identifying and Creating Overlapping Geometric Shapes
- Lesson 71 Using Mental Computation to Subtract 10 From a Two-Digit Number
- Lesson 72 Measuring and Drawing Line Segments to the Nearest Half Inch
- Lesson 73 Adding Two-Digit Numbers With a Sum Greater Than 100
- Lesson 74 - Representing numbers using base 10 blocks
- Lesson 75 - Subtracting 3 - Capacity - gallon, half gallon, quart, and liter
- Lesson 76 - Place Value Models
- Lesson 77 - Ordering - 3 digit numbers - finding the median
- Lesson 78 Telling and Showing Time to Five- Minute Intervals
- Lesson 79 Adding Three Two-Digit Numbers With a Sum Greater Than 100
- Lesson 80-1 Subtracting 4 Facts Drawing a Picture to Solve a Problem
- Lesson 80-2 Written Assessment 15 Oral Assessment 8 Cutting a Geometric Shape Apart and Making a New Shape
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
Geography of the Americas
Science: Exploring Land and Water
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- 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
