Ms. Quattrone's Second Grade Class
A Quick Note for My Class:
Hello and Welcome to 2nd Grade! I am so looking forward to working with you and your child this year! Get ready for lots of fun activities, new friends, and amazing discoveries. This will be a fun-filled year full of learning! I am so excited to start this journey with you!
Week of: October 19th
Everything You Need to Know This Week:
- Individual Picture Retake Day: Monday, Oct. 19th
- Elementary Class Picture Day: Tuesday, Oct. 20th
- Pay for Dress of Choice (Candy Donation): Wednesday, Oct. 21st
- Spelling Test: Thursday, Oct. 22nd
- Disguise a Ghost Family Project is due Friday, October 23rd
- 2nd Grade Field Trip to the Downtown Aquarium is on Friday, October 23rd. See email for more information!
- 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.
Important Information:
- Music is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: Character Ed.
- Be sure to check your student's Math and Reading teacher's websites:
- Mystery Reader Sign-Up: Click Here!
- Please make sure your student is wearing comfortable shoes for PE our PE day is Wednesday.
- Please send your student with a labeled water bottle and a nut free snack daily.
- To avoid lost or broken student items, please leave toys and personal items at home.
- Please label all student items with your student's name & grade level.
- Please keep checking your student's Thursday Folder and make sure they bring it back to school.
- Please read your student's Friday Journal, write them a note back, and make sure they bring it back to school.(These will begin this week!
- Dress for the weather! Don't forget labeled coats, hats, and gloves when necessary.
- 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.
- Your student's Homework Folder went home and will be due monthly.
- On the inside of your student's Homework Folder, they have their Clever QR Code. Your student can go onto Clever at home and access reading and math resources!
SPECIALS & STEAM Schedule:
STEAM Rotation:
MUSIC: Red
TECH: Orange
ART: Green
STEM: Blue
SPECIALS:
Monday: Character Education
Tuesday: Library
Wednesday: PE
Thursday: Spanish
Friday: Rotates
Upcoming:
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October:
- Parent Teacher Conferences (Regular School Days): October 6th & 8th (4:15-8pm)
- End of Quarter 1: Thursday, October 8th
- Spirit Wear Day: Thursday, October 8th
- Comp Day (No school): Friday, October 9th
- Fall Break (No school): October 12th-16th
- Individual Picture Retake Day: Monday, Oct. 19th
- Elem. & PreK Class Picture Day: Tues. Oct. 20th
- Pay for Dress of Choice: Wednesday, Oct. 21st
- Dress of Choice: Friday, October 30th
- Fall Party (PreK-5): 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:
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Spelling Test: Thursday, October 22nd
- nose
- rope
- broke
- coat
- loaf
- boat
- road
- code
- hopeful
- coach
Ms. Quattrone's Reading Skills Group: Skills 2
Lesson 3: Spelling Alternatives: Review /ee/ › ‘ee’ and ‘ea’
Lesson 4; Review: Tricky Words and Quotation Marks
Lesson 5: Review and Practice: Spelling Assessment
Lesson 6: Writing: Plan a Fictional Narrative
Lesson 7: Writing: Draft a Fictional Narrative
Lesson 8: Writing: Edit a Fictional Narrative
Lesson 9: Grammar: Commas and Quotation Marks
Lesson 10: Review and Practice: Spelling Assessment
Lesson 11: Grammar: Quotation Marks and Contractions
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
*Please be sure your child is reading for up to 20 min. daily at home!
Ms. Quattrone's Math Skills Group
- Into Math Module 2: Addition and Subtraction within 1,000
Key Concepts & Strategies
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Add using place value strategies.
- Subtract using place value strategies.
- Write equations with unknowns to solve problems.
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- Lesson 1: Use expanded form to add.
- Lesson 2: Use place value to add.
- Lesson 3: Combine place values to subtract.
- Lesson 4: Use place value to subtract.
- Lesson 5: Choose a strategy to add or subtract.
- Lesson 6: Model and solve two-step problems.
*Please be sure your child is practicing their math facts at home!
Writing: Handwriting & Journal Writing
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- Handwriting Practice
- Review Paragraph Conventions and Writing
- Writers Workshop
CKLA Knowledge: Domain 5: The War of 1812
Lesson 1: Lesson 1 America in 1812, Part I
Lesson 2: America in 1812, Part II
Lesson 3: Mr. and Mrs. Madison
Lesson 4: Another War Already?
Pausing Point
Lesson 5: The Attack on Washington, D.C.
Lesson 6: Broad Stripes and Bright Stars
Lesson 7: The Battle After the War
Lesson 8: Peace and Pirates
Domain Review
Domain Assessment
History: The War of 1812
- The American government is based on the Constitution, the highest law of our land.
- James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution”
- Government by the consent of the governed: “We the people”
- President James Madison and Dolley Madison
- British impressment of American sailors
- Old Ironsides
- British burn the White House
- Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, and “The Star-Spangled Banner”
- Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson
Science: Exploring Land & 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 night you can is so 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 folders 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 Thursday folders.
- Want to know more about NWEA click here: Family Guide To NWEA & Family Tool Kit for NWEA
Reading Resources: Many of these resources will be on Clever (You can access at home too):
- EPIC books: https://www.getepic.com/sign-in (Lots of great online books to read 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
Math Resources: Many of these resources will be on Clever (You can access at home too):
- Boddle: Boddle Math (students LOVE this)
- Prodigy: Prodigy Practice for Math & Reading
- 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)
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