Mrs. Savic's Second Grade Class
A Quick Note for My Class:
Welcome to 2nd Grade! My name is Mrs. Savic, and I am thrilled to be your teacher this year. Get ready for lots of fun activities, new friends, and amazing discoveries. I can't wait to meet you! I look forward to seeing your smiling face. See you soon!
Week of: August 11th- August 15th
Everything You Need to Know This Week:
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Welcome back to school! I am so excited to start our year together. This week, we will focus on the following:
*rules and expectations
*getting to know each other
*make students feel part of the classroom and school community
- Meet and Greet: Monday, 8/11 and Tuesday, 8/12
- First Day of School: Wednesday, 8/13
- Art is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: PE
- 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 students' 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 students' 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:
August:
- Meet and Greet: Monday, 8/11 and Tuesday, 8/12
- First Day of School: Wednesday, 8/13
- Picture Day: Wednesday, 8/20
September
- Labor Day/No School: Monday, 9/1
- Curriculum Night: Thursday, 9/4
- Professional Development/No School: Friday, 9/19
October
- Parent/Teacher Conferences: Tuesday, 10/7 and Thursday, 10/9
- Picture Retakes and Class Pictures: Wednesday, 10/8
- Comp Day/No School: Friday, 10/10
- Fall Break/No School: Monday, 10/14-Friday, 10/17
WEEKLY CURRICULUM & HOMEWORK:
Mrs. Savic's Reading (CKLA) Skills Group: Skills 1
- Beginning of Year Assessments
- Lesson 1 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Lesson 2 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Lesson 3 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Lesson 4 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- Lesson 5 Back-to-School: Basic Code Review
- HOMEWORK:
Mrs. Savic's Math Skills Group:
- Beginning of Year Assessments
- Lesson 1: Reading and Identifying Numbers to 100
- Identifying Right and Left
- Lesson 2: Identifying One More and and One Less Than a Number
- Graphing Data on a Graph
- Lesson 3: Telling and Showing Time to the Hour
- Lesson 4: Writing Numbers to 100
- Lesson 5: Addition Facts: Doubles with Sums to 18
- HOMEWORK:
Writing: Foundations of Writing and Journal Writing
- Review paragraph conventions and writing
- Writers Workshop and Step Up to Writing
- Handwriting Practice
CKLA Knowledge: Unit 1-Fairy Tales and Tall Tales
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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
- Vocabulary Words: displeases, curious, fortune, constant
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:
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
2:50-3:00 Read Aloud
3:00-3:20 Recess
3:25-3:30 Pack up/Dismissal