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: September 8th
Everything You Need to Know This Week:
- Labor Day-No School: Monday, September 7th
- Check your child's backpack for their Friday Journal. Don't forget to write in your student's Friday Journal and return it to their backpack.
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, September 11th
- Please return ALL homework on Friday, September 25th. Thank you!
- We started our fundraiser! You can register your student at mybooster.com
- Boosterthon Fun Run (Prek-5th): Wednesday, September 16th
Important Information:
- STEM is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: Spanish.
- Be sure to check your student's Math and Reading teacher's websites:
- Mystery Reader Sign-Up: Coming Soon!
- 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:
September:
- Labor Day, No School: Monday, September 7th
- PD Day (No school for students): Monday, September 21st
October:
- Parent Teacher Conferences (Regular School Days): October 6th & 8th (4:15-8pm)
- End of Quarter 1: Thursday, October 8th
- Comp Day (No school): Friday, October 9th
- Fall Break (No school): October 12th-16th
- Fall Party (PreK-5): Friday, October 30th
Weekly Curriculum:
Ms. Quattrone's Reading Skills Group: Skills 1
- Lesson 11 Review: Tricky Words and Spelling Alternatives
- Read “The Hot Dog”
- Lesson 12 Review: Tricky Words and Spelling Alternatives
- Read “The Chicken Nugget”
- Lesson 13 Basic Code Review: Two-Syllable Words with Short Vowels
- Reread “The Chicken Nugget”
- Lesson 14 Review: Tricky Words and Tricky Spelling ‘g’
- Read “The Snack Mix”
- Lesson 15 Assessment and Review: Spelling Assessment and Tricky Spelling ‘c’
- Reread “The Snack Mix”
- Lesson 16 Review: Spelling Alternatives
- Read “The Ham”
- Lesson 17 Review: Spelling Alternatives and Tricky Words
- Read “The Fish”
- Lesson 18 Review: Tricky Words and Spelling Alternatives
- Read “The Milk”
- Lesson 19 Review: Tricky Words
- Reread “The Milk”
- Lesson 20 Assessment and Review: Spelling Assessment and Tricky Spelling ‘s’
- Lesson 21 Review: Sound/Spellings and Tricky Words
- Read “The Chips”
- Lesson 22 Assessment: End-of-Unit Assessment
Short O
Spelling Test: Friday, September 11th
- lost
- mop
- stop
- mom
- dog
- blob
- frog
- job
- drop
- plop
*Please be sure your child is reading for up to 20 min. daily at home!
Ms. Quattrone's Math Skills Group
- Into Math Module 1: Addition and Subtraction Strategies
Key Concepts & Strategies
- describe, extend, create, and identify number patterns.
- use mental math strategies to add and subtract numbers.
- use rounding and compatible numbers to estimate sums and differences.
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Lesson 1: Number Patterns
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Lesson 2: Identify Number Patterns on the Addition Table
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Lesson 3: Use Mental-Math Strategies for Addition and Subtraction
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Lesson 4: Use Properties to Add
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Lesson 5: Use Mental Math to Assess Reasonableness
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Lesson 6: Round to the Nearest Ten or Hundred
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Lesson 7: Use Estimation with Sums and Differences
*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 1: Fairy Tales & Tall Tales
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
Lesson 5: Paul Bunyan
Lesson 6: Pecos Bill
Lesson 7: John Henry
Lesson 8: Casey Jones
Domain Review
Domain Assessment
History: Geography of 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 & 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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