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Mrs. Savic's Second Grade Class

Week of: May 18th- May 22nd

Everything You Need to Know This Week: 
 
  • End-of-Year Balloon Pop Countdown: We popped our first balloon on Friday! Please see Class Dojo for more details. 
  • Please remember to return your library books as soon as possible. 
  • Free Dress of Choice: Friday, May 22nd
  • LAST DAY OF SCHOOL (Dismissal @11:30am): Friday, May 22nd
  • MUSIC is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: No Special
 
  • Scholastic Book Order: Please visit www.scholastic.com and place your order online by using our special class code 2KPO6.
 
FRIENDLY REMINDERS:  
  • Please write in your student's Friday Journal and return it to their backpack.
  • Please keep sending two nut-free snacks and a filled water bottle with your child daily.
  • Each week, don't forget to empty out your child's Thursday Folder. Have your child return it to school on Friday.
  • Please check your student's math and reading teacher's page to stay up to date on homework and what your student is working on in class.
  • Dress for the weather! We will go outside if the "feels like" temperature is above 20 degrees, so please have your child bring coats, boots and cold weather gear as needed. 
  • Please remember to label your child's coats, boots, gloves, etc. 
 
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:  
  • To avoid lost or broken student items, please leave toys and personal items at home.
  • Please label all student items with your student's first and last name & grade level.
  • Dress for the weather! Don't forget labeled coats, hats, and gloves when necessary.
 
STEAM & SPECIALS SCHEDULE:

STEAM Rotation: (Art, STEM, Music, Technology)

 

ART: Red

STEM: Orange

MUSIC: Green

TECHNOLOGY: Blue

 

SPECIALS: 
Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish
Wednesday: Character Education
Thursday: Library
Friday: Rotates (PE, Spanish, Character Education, Library)
 

Upcoming:  

May

  • Dress of Choice and Last Day of School: Friday, May 22nd (Dismissal at 11:30 a.m.)
 

WEEKLY CURRICULUM & HOMEWORK:

Mrs. Savic's Reading (CKLA) Skills Group: Skills 6

 
  • End-of-Year Assessments
  • Charlotte's Web chapter book reading and reading response journal
  • IXL Learning
 
  • Please be sure your child is reading at least 20 minutes a day.  
 

Mrs. Savic's Math Skills Group: Volume 2

 

  • Calendar Pages
  • End-of-Year Assessments
  • Lesson 122 Writing Number Sentences for Arrays
  • Lesson 123 Telling and Showing Time to the Quarter Hour
  • Lesson 124 Identifying and Showing Transformations: Translations, Rotations, and Reflections
  • IXL Learning
  • Xtra Math
  • Prodigy
 
  • Keep practicing your math facts at home! 
 
 

Writing:

Current Writing Topic: Informative Writing

  • Write about a topic, including a beginning and ending sentence, facts and examples relevant to the topic
  • Group similar information into paragraphs.
  • Use linking words such as also, another, and, etc. to connect ideas within a paragraph.
 
 
CKLA Knowledge: Domain 8: Insects

 

Lesson 1 Insects Everywhere!

Lesson 2 What Makes an Insect an Insect?

Lesson 3 Life Cycles of Insects

Lesson 4 Social Insects: Bees and Wasps

Lesson 5 Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Pausing Point

Lesson 6 Insects that Glow and Sing

Lesson 7 Armored Tanks of the Insect World

Lesson 8 Friend or Foe?

Domain Review and Assessment

 

 

History: Japan

 

Geography:

  • The location of Japan relative to continental Asia, including its position in relation to the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan (or East Sea)
  • Japan: “land of the rising sun”
  • Japan as an island nation that includes four main islands
  • The locations of Mount Fuji and Tokyo
  • Modern cities as sites of industry and business

Culture: 

  • Japanese flag
  • Example of a traditional craft: origami
  • Example of traditional clothing: kimono
  • Japanese literature (“The Tongue-Cut Sparrow”), art (The Great Wave off Kanagawa), and architecture (Himeji Castle) as reflections of Japanese beliefs and practices
 

 

Science: Organisms and Their Habitats

  • Plant Needs 
    • Plants have body parts (roots, stems, leaves) to survive and grow. 
    • Plants are living organisms and typically grow in fixed locations.
    • Though there are many different types of plants, they have common needs (air, water, minerals, light).
 
  • Plant Diversity
  • Plants are diverse in size, structure, and ecological needs. 
  • Plants live in environments to which they are suited; those environments also differ: 
    • Deciduous forests (oak trees) 
    • Tropical forests (vines, epiphytes) 
    • Meadows and prairies (grasses) 
    • Deserts (cacti) 
    • Tundra (plants of small size) 
    • Ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams 
    • Oceans are home to less than a dozen known species of plants.
  • Many plant habitats change in cycles over time—seasons—and plants are adapted to survive during those changes.
 
  • Animal Needs
  • Adult plants and animals reproduce. 
  • Many kinds of animal parents take care of their offspring until the offspring become mature enough to care for themselves.
 
  • Animal Diversity
  • Animals are diverse in size, shape, and ecological needs.
    • Animals vary in their structure.
      • Invertebrates: without backbones (snails, insects, coral) 
      • Vertebrates: with backbones (mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians)
    • Animals live in environments to which they are suited; those environments differ:
      • Deciduous forests (squirrels, raccoons) 
      • Tropical forests (moles, worms) 
      • Meadows and prairies (prairie dogs) 
      • Deserts (lizards, scorpions) 
      • Tundra (arctic fox, polar bears) 
      • Ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams (fish, oysters) 
      • Oceans (There are numerous species of animals in the world’s oceans, such as sea stars and whales.)
 
  • Ecosystems: Plant and Animal Relationships
  • Many plants and animals live in a specific habitat. 
  • Organisms that share a given space affect each other.
    • Animals depend on plants for food and shelter. 
    • Plants depend on animals (for example, pollination, seed dispersal).
  • There are also groups of living things that are neither plants nor animals (fungi, algae, bacteria).
 
 

Parent Resources:

Reading every day is important!  Look at the statistic below:
 
Reading Stats
 

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.

 
NWEA (MAPS) Assessment: is also administered three times a year. You will receive these results as well in your child's Thursday folder.
 
Reading Resources: Some of these may cost money, but I wanted you to know they are out there.
 
Math Resources
 
MEET MRS. SAVIC
Welcome to 2nd grade! My name is Branka Savic, and I am pleased to welcome you to the 2025-2026 school year. This is my 19th year in education and my 2nd year teaching second grade here at Aspen View Academy. I have experience working with preschool students, kindergarten, and grades 2nd through 4th. I look forward to meeting you and getting to know you this school year. We are going to have a wonderful year together! 
 
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Name
2nd Grade Teacher Branka Savic
Position
2nd Grade Teacher
Email
bsavic@aspenviewacademy.org
DAILY SCHEDULE
8:00-8:25 Welcome/Morning Work
8:25-9:25 CKLA Skills
9:25-10:00 CKLA/Writing
10:00-10:45 STEAM
10:50-11:10 Recess
11:10-11:30 Lunch
11:35-12:35 Math
12:35-1:30 History/Science/
Knowledge
1:30-2:15 Specials
2:20-2:50 WIN (What I Need)
2:50-3:00 Read Aloud
3:00-3:20 Recess
3:25-3:30 Pack up/Dismissal