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Week of: October 26th

Everything You Need to Know This Week:        

  • Dress of Choice: Friday, October 30th 
  • Fall Party (PreK-5): Friday, October 30th (1:30-2:30pm)
  • Halloween Parade (PreK-5): Friday, October 30th (2:30-3:15pm)
  • See email regarding Fall Party & Halloween Parade 
  • Trunk or Treat (AVA Parking Lot): Friday, October 30th (5-8:30pm) 
  • Spelling Test is on Friday, October 30th
  • October's Homework Packet is due Friday, October 30th
  • 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:

  • Art is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: Halloween Party     
  • Be sure to check your student's Math and Reading teacher's websites:
  • Mystery Reader Sign-Up: Reynolds Mystery Guest Reader
  • Please make sure your student is wearing comfortable shoes for PE. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 will go home on Fridays and it is due the next Friday.
  • On the back 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:

TECH: Red

ART: Orange

STEM:  Green

MUSIC: Blue

 

 

SPECIALS:
Monday: Library 
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Spanish
Thursday: Character Education
Friday: Rotates
 

Upcoming:    

 
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:

 

Mrs. Reynolds' Reading Skills Group: Skills 2 

 
  • Tricky Words and Spelling Alternatives
  • Long Vowel Sounds Review & Spellings
  • Quotation Marks
  • Commas
  • Contractions
  • Review: Sound/Spellings
  • Spelling Assessments
  • Unit Assessments
  • Bedtime Tales Readings
  • Freckle Juice chapter book reading & journal response
 

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 for up to 20 min. daily at home!
 
 
 

Mrs. Reynolds' Math Skills Group: Module 3 & 4 

 
  • Math Facts Practice 
  • Module 3 Assessment
  • Identify Even and Odd Numbers
  • Write Equations to Represent Even Numbers
  • Represent Equal Groups
  • Add to Find the Total Number of Objects in Arrays
  • Practice with Arrays
  • Module 4 Review 
  • Module 4 Assessment
  • IXL Learning 
 
*Please be sure your child is practicing their math facts at home!
 
 
 

Writing: Handwriting, Journal Writing, How-To Writing

 

    • Handwriting Practice
    • Paragraph Conventions and Writing
    • Writers Workshop
 
  • 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

Domain Review

Domain Assessment

      
 
 

History: Americans Move West

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 
  • 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: 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.
 
 

Daily Schedule Room 203:

8:00-8:20    

Arrival - Morning Work                                                                                              
8:20-9:05
CKLA Skills                                                                                                                  
9:05-9:50
Writing
9:50-10:05

Handwriting                                                                                
10:05-10:45

STEAM: TECH/ART/STEM/MUSIC                                                                                                                                                      
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: Library/PE/Spanish/Character Education                                                                                  
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

 

Parent Resources:

Reading every night you can is so 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 folders after each benchmark.

 
NWEA (MAPS) Assessment: is also administered three times a year. You will receive these results as well in Thursday folders.
 
Reading Resources: Many of these resources will be on Clever (You can access at home too): 
 
Math Resources: Many of these resources will be on Clever (You can access at home too): 

 

A Quick Note for My Class:

Hello and Welcome to 2nd Grade! I look 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 grateful to start this journey with you!
 

Meet Mrs. Reynolds:

I'm Mrs. Alexandria Reynolds and I am thrilled to be teaching 2nd Grade at Aspen View Academy! This will be my eleventh year teaching. In addition to teaching 2nd Grade, I've also taught 1st and
3rd Grade. It is my passion working with children and helping them learn and grow.
 
I am from Nevada. My family and I relocated to Colorado two years ago! We are loving all there is to do here!
 
I graduated with honors from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Elementary Education. Before that, I graduated with high honors from the College of
Southern Nevada with an Associate of Arts Degree in Elementary Education.
 
My husband and I have 2 daughters. One is 8 years old, and the other one is 5. They are our world! We have a travel trailer, and we love to travel across the United States whenever we can. We also love going to Disneyland! You can say we are very adventurous! On weekends, we like to shop at farmer’s markets and attend other events. We love spending family time together.
 
I am looking forward to a fun school year of learning together!
 
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