Mrs. Savic's Second Grade Class
Week of: December 8th-December 12th
Everything You Need to Know This Week:
- Math and reading homework went home on Friday and is due Friday, December 12th
- Middle of the year MAPs testing starts this week!
- Friday, December 12th: Spirit Wear Day
- Dress for the weather! We will go outside if the temperature "feels like" it's above 20 degrees, so please have students bring coats, boots, and cold weather gear as needed.
- Please remember to label your child's coats, boots, gloves, etc.
- MUSIC is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: Character Ed
- 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.
- 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. Thank you!
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:
December:
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, December 12th
- Holiday Party and Free Dress of Choice: Thursday, December 18th
- Teacher Workday: Friday, December 19th
- Winter Break/No School: December 22nd-Janurary 2nd
January:
- Professional Development/No school for students: Monday, January 5th
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, January 9th
- Pay for Dress of Choice: Wednesday, January 14th
- MLK Jr. Day/No School: Monday, January 19th
- Free Dress of Choice: Friday, January 30th
WEEKLY CURRICULUM & HOMEWORK:
Mrs. Savic's Reading (CKLA) Skills Group: Skills 3
- Reading MAPs Test
- Spelling Words Practice
- Spelling Assessment
- Review and Practice
- Tricky Words Review
- Sound Spelling Alternatives & Tricky Spellings
- Spelling Tree
- Nouns (Common & Proper)
- Plural Nouns
- Capitalization & Punctuation
- Antonyms and Synonyms
- Action Verbs
- The Job Hunt Readings
- Flat Stanley chapter book reading & reading response journal
- Boost Reading
- IXL Learning
- Flat Stanley chapter book reading and reading response journal
- Please be sure your child is reading at least 20 minutes a day.
Mrs. Savic's Math Skills Group: Volume 1
- Lesson 52: Adding Two-Digit Numbers Using Dimes and Pennies (Part 1)
- Lesson 54: Adding Two-Digit Numbers Using Dimes and Pennies (Part 2)
- Lesson 55: Addition Facts: Sums of 15,16,17,and18
- Math MAPS Test
- IXL Learning
- Xtra Math
- Keep practicing your math facts at home!
Writing: Foundations of Writing and Journal Writing
- Review paragraph conventions and writing
- Writers Workshop and Step Up to Writing
- Handwriting Practice
Poetry
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- Identify and develop a familiarization with:
- 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
- Identify and develop a familiarization with:
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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:
CKLA Knowledge: Domain 9: The U.S. Civil War
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: Properties of 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:
Reading every day is important! Look at the statistic below:
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
NWEA (MAPS) Assessment: is also administered three times a year. You will receive these results as well in your child's Thursday folder.
- Want to know more about NWEA click here: Family Guide To NWEA & Family Tool Kit for NWEA
Reading Resources: Some of these may cost money, but I wanted you to know they are out there.
- 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)
Math Resources
- 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)
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!
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