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Mrs. Savic's Second Grade Class

 

  Week of: October 26th-October 30th

Everything You Need to Know This Week: 
 
  • See email regarding Fall Party and Halloween Parade! 
  • Please check your student's math and reading teacher's page to stay up to date on what your student is working on in class. 
  • October's Homework Packet is due Friday, October 30th
  • Spelling Test: Friday, October 30th
  • Dress of Choice and Fall Party (PreK-5th): Friday, October 30th
  • Fall Party (Pre-K-5th): Friday, October 30th (1:30-2:30pm)
  • Halloween Parade (Pre-K-5): Friday, October 30th (2:30-3:15pm)
  • Trunk or Treat (AVA Parking Lot): Friday, October 30th (5-8:30pm)
 
  • STEM is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: Halloween Party
  • 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 make sure your student is wearing comfortable shoes for PE. 
  • 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:

October: 
  • Parent Teacher Conferences (Regular School Days): October 6th & 8th (4:15-8pm)
  • Spirit Wear Day: Thursday, October 8th 
  • End of Quarter 1: Thursday, October 8th  
  • Comp Day/No School: Friday, October 9th 
  • Fall Break/No School: October 12th-16th
  • Individual Picture Retake Day: Monday, October 19th
  • Elementary &Pre-K Class Picture Day: Tuesday, October 20th
  • Pay for Dress of Choice: Wednesday, October 21st
  • Dress of Choice and Fall Party (PreK-5th): Friday, October 30th
  • Fall Party (Pre-K-5th): Friday, October 30th  
 
 
November: 
  • Spirit Wear Day: Friday, November 6th 
  • Pay for Dress of Choice (Red, White, & Blue): Tuesday, November 10th   
  • Veteran's Day Assembly: Tuesday, November 10th 
  • Dress of Choice: Friday, November 20th  
  • Thanksgiving Break (No school): Nov. 23rd-27th
 
 

WEEKLY CURRICULUM & HOMEWORK:

Mrs. Savic's Reading (CKLA) Skills Group: Skills 2

 
  • Lesson 15 Review and Practice: Spelling Assessment 
  • Lesson 16  Unit Assessment: Dictation Identification, Comprehension, and Fluency
  • Pausing Point Pages
 
  • Freckle Juice chapter book reading and journal response

 

 

List 3

Long I

Spelling Test: Friday, October 30th 

1. fly
2. light
3. write
4. wide
5. prize
6. spy
7. try
8. bright
9. fine 
10. site
 
  • Please be sure your child is reading at least 20 minutes a day.  
 

Mrs. Savic's Math Skills Group:

 

  • Math Facts Practice
  • Module 4: Equal Grops
  • Lesson 1: Identify Even and Odd Numbers
  • Lesson 2: Write Equations to Represent Even Numbers 
  • Lesson 3: Represent Equal Groups
  • Lesson 4: Add to Find the Total Number of Objects in Arrays
  • Lesson 5: Practice With Arrays
  • Module 3 Review
  • Module 3 Assessment
 
  • IXL Math
  • Prodigy
  • Xtra Math
 
  • Please be sure your child is practicing their math facts at home. 
 

Writing:

Current Writing Topic: How-to Writing

  • Write about a topic, including a beginning and ending sentence (topics and conclusion), facts and examples relevant to the topic, and specific steps (if writing explanatory text).
  • Group similar information into paragraphs. 
  • Use linking words or transitions such as also, another, and, etc. to connect ideas within a paragraph. 
  • Form sentences and paragraphs to communicate thoughts and ideas. 
  • Apply basic spelling conventions.
  • Use basic capitalization and punctuation in sentences to convey meaning.
 
CKLA Knowledge: Domain 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

 

 

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


 

 

Science: Landforms and Bodies of 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:
 
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 2026-2027 school year. This is my 20th year in education, and my 3rd 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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DAILY SCHEDULE
8:00-8:20 Welcome/Morning Work
8:20-9:05 CKLA Skills
9:05-9:50 Writing
9:50-10:05 Handwriting
10:05-10:45 STEAM
10:50-11:10 Recess
11:10-11:30 Lunch
11:35-12:35 Math
12:35-1:30 Knowledge/History/ Science
1:35-2:15 Specials
2:15-2:45 WIN (What I Need)
2:45-3:00 SSR (Sustained Silent Reading)
3:00-3:20 Recess
3:25-3:30 Read Aloud& Pack up
3:30 Dismissal