Mrs. Reynolds
Week of: April 27th
Everything You Need to Know This Week:
- DIBELS & Math MAPs Testing will take place this week.
- No Homework this week!
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: Mystery 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:
April:
- Pay for Dress of Choice: Wednesday, April 1st
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, April 10th
- Field Trip to Butterfly Pavilion: Thursday, April 23rd
- Dress of Choice: Thursday, April 23rd
- No School, Professional Development Day: Friday, April 24th
May:
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, May 8th
- Elementary Field Day: Tuesday, May 12th
- Free Dress of Choice: Friday, May 22nd
- Last Day of School (Dismiss @ 11:30am): Friday, May 22nd
Weekly Curriculum & Homework:
Mrs. Reynolds' Reading Skills Group: Skills 6
- Spelling Words Practice
- Spelling Assessment
- Review & Practice
- Tricky Words Review
- Sound Spelling Alternatives & Tricky Spellings
- Spelling Tree
- Nouns (Common, Proper, & Irregular, Plural)
- Alphabetical Order
- Capitalization & Punctuation
- Antonyms & Synonyms
- Action Verbs, Verbs To-Be
- Adjectives
- The War of 1812 Readings
- Charlotte's Web chapter book reading & reading response journal
- Boost Reading
- IXL Learning
*Please be sure your child is reading for up to 20 min. daily at home!
Mrs. Reynolds' Math Skills Group: Volume 2
- Math Meeting
- Multiplying by 5 Facts
- Creating and Reading a Bar Graph With a Scale of 2
- Identifying Right Angles
- Fact Assessment
- Multiplying by 2 Facts
- Xtra Math Practice
- IXL Learning
*Please be sure your child is practicing their math facts at home!
Writing: Journal Writing & Narrative Writing
- Review Paragraph Conventions and Writing
- Handwriting Practice
- Writers Workshop
- Write a familiar story that includes setting(s), character(s), dialogue, and, if appropriate, several events, using temporal words and phrases to indicate the chronology of events.
- Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- Write a personal narrative.
- Create a title and an ending that are relevant to the narrative.
CKLA Knowledge: Domain 2: Early Asian Civilizations
Lesson 1 The Indus River Valley, Part I
Lesson 2 The Indus River Valley, Part II
Lesson 3 Hinduism
Lesson 4 The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
Lesson 5 The Blind Men and the Elephant
Lesson 6 Diwali
Lesson 7 Buddhism
Pausing Point
Lesson 8 The Yellow and the Yangtze Rivers
Lesson 9 Paper, Writing, and Calligraphy
Lesson 10 The Magic Paintbrush
Lesson 11 The Importance of Silk
Lesson 12 China’s Great Wall
Lesson 13 Confucius
Lesson 14 Chinese New Year
Domain Review and Assessment
History: Ancient Greece
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- Geography:
- Locations of Greece, the island of Crete, and the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas
- Locations of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta
- History:
- Athens as a city-state; the beginnings of democracy
- Sparta as a military city-state that was sometimes the enemy of Athens
- Persian Wars: Battles of Marathon and Thermopylae
- Olympic Games
- Worship of gods and goddesses
- Great thinkers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- Alexander the Great
Science: Organisms & their Habitats
- Plant Needs
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- Plants have body parts (roots, stems, leaves) to survive and grow.
- Plants are living organisms and typically grow in fixed locations.
- Though there are many different types of plants, they have common needs (air, water, minerals, light).
- Plant Diversity
- Plants are diverse in size, structure, and ecological needs.
- Plants live in environments to which they are suited; those environments also differ:
- Deciduous forests (oak trees)
- Tropical forests (vines, epiphytes)
- Meadows and prairies (grasses)
- Deserts (cacti)
- Tundra (plants of small size)
- Ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams
- Oceans are home to less than a dozen known species of plants.
- Many plant habitats change in cycles over time—seasons—and plants are adapted to survive during those changes.
- Animal Needs
- Adult plants and animals reproduce.
- Many kinds of animal parents take care of their offspring until the offspring become mature enough to care for themselves.
- Animal Diversity
- Animals are diverse in size, shape, and ecological needs.
- Animals vary in their structure.
- Invertebrates: without backbones (snails, insects, coral)
- Vertebrates: with backbones (mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians)
- Animals live in environments to which they are suited; those environments differ:
- Deciduous forests (squirrels, raccoons)
- Tropical forests (moles, worms)
- Meadows and prairies (prairie dogs)
- Deserts (lizards, scorpions)
- Tundra (arctic fox, polar bears)
- Ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams (fish, oysters)
- Oceans (There are numerous species of animals in the world’s oceans, such as sea stars and whales.)
- Ecosystems: Plant and Animal Relationships
- Many plants and animals live in a specific habitat.
- Organisms that share a given space affect each other.
- Animals depend on plants for food and shelter.
- Plants depend on animals (for example, pollination, seed dispersal).
- There are also groups of living things that are neither plants nor animals (fungi, algae, bacteria).
Daily Schedule Room 203:
| 8:00-8:25 |
Arrival/ Morning Work |
| 8:25-9:25 | Reading |
| 9:25-10:00 |
Writing |
| 10:00-10:45 |
STEAM: TECH/ART/STEM/MUSIC |
| 10:50-11:30 | Recess & Lunch |
| 11:35-12:35 | Math |
| 12:35-1:30 | History/Science & Knowledge |
| 1:30-2:15 | Specials: Library/PE/Spanish/Character Education |
| 2:20-2:50 | WIN (What I Need) |
| 2:50-3:00 | Read Aloud |
| 3:00-3:20 | Recess |
| 3:25-3:30 | Pack Up |
| 3:30 | Dismissal |
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 through out. 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)
A Quick Note for My Class & Meet Mrs. Reynolds:
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!
I'm Mrs. Alexandria Reynolds and I am thrilled to be teaching 2nd Grade at Aspen View Academy! This will be my tenth 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.
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 a year 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.
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 7 years old, and the other one is 4. 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!
