Amy Monheiser
Week of: April 22nd-26th
Hello! Welcome to second grade! I hope that you had a fantastic summer! Are you just as excited to start the new school year as I am? Our classroom will be a place where we will discover many interesting things, do amazing projects, and build our confidence as we grow as readers, writers, mathematicians and so much more. I am so grateful to be starting this journey with you and your student.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- ART is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: 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 students name & grade level.
- Dress for the weather! Don't forget labeled coats, hats and gloves when necessary.
- Here is the link to order books for your child: https://orders.scholastic.com/R2QKP
- Our class code is: R2QKP
SPECIALS & STEAM Schedule:
Steam schedule will rotate weekly.
STEAM: Music this week!
| STEM | Red |
| Music | Orange |
| Tech | Green |
| Art | Blue |
SPECIALS:
| Monday | Spanish |
| Tuesday | Character Educations |
| Wednesday | Library |
| Thursday | PE |
| Friday | ROTATES |
Upcoming:
- Free Dress: Friday, April 26th
- End of Year Testing: Tuesday, April 30 - Wednesday, May 8
- Second Grade Field Trip to the Butterfly Pavilion: Thursday, May 9th
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, May 10th
- Insect Project Due: Friday, May 17th
- Pay Dress of Choice: Friday, May 17th
- Field Day Pre-K- 2nd: Tuesday, May 21st from 8:20-9:45
- Last Day of School Half Day: Thursday, May 23rd dimissal at 11:30
HOMEWORK THIS WEEK:
- Mrs. Monheiser's Math Skill Group Homework: Math skills practice due Friday!
- Mrs. Monheiser's Reading Skill Group: Reading & Spelling Log 5.4
WEEKLY CURRICULUM:
Math: Saxon Lesson
- Lesson 100: Multiplying Dollars & Cents
- Lesson 101: Dividing Two Digit Numbers
- Lesson 102: Sorting
- Lesson 103: Ordering Numbers Through 9,999
- Lesson 104: Estimating Area
Wonders: 5.4
- Genre: Fiction
- Comprehension Strategy: summarize, point of view, syonyms
- Stories: The Art Project
- Phonics: a, aw, augh, al, ough
- Vocabulary: curious, distance, Earths Resources, enormous, gently, proudly, rarely, supply
- High Frequency Words: city, father, mother, own, questions, read, searching, sure, though
- Novel: Charlottes Web
- Spelling Practice: Reading A to Z: https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login?_ga=2.24570426.1662848664.1704491859-1273083723.1701655207
We will be reading:
Grammar:
Shurley Grammar
- Chapter 1: Five Parts of the Complete Sentence
- Chapter 2 : Nouns & Verbs
- Chapter 3: Adverbs
- Chapter 4: Adjectives
- Chapter 5: Article Adjectives
- Chapter 6: Declarative & Subject/ Predicate
- Chapter 7: Preposition/ Object of the Preposition
- Chapter 8: Modification of Object of the Preposition
- Chapter 9: Multiple Prepostions in a Sentence
- Chapter 10: Subject Pronoun
- Chapter 11: Possessive Pronoun
- Chapter 12: Helping Verbs
- Chapter 13: Possesive Nouns
- Chapter 14: Object Pronoun
- Chapter 15: Exclamatory Sentence
Writing:
Current Writing Topic: Narrative
- Writing a complete sentence
- Friday Journals
- Benson Handwriting
History:
- Geography
• Locate relative to continental Asia: “land of the rising sun”
• A country made up of islands; four major islands
• Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan
• Mt. Fuji
• Tokyo - Culture
• Japanese flag
• Big modern cities, centers of industry and business
• Traditional craft: origami
• Traditional costume: kimono
Science:
- The life cycle: birth, growth, reproduction, death
- Reproduction in plants and animals
- From seed to seed with a plant
- From egg to egg with a chicken
- From egg to frog
- From butterfly to butterfly: metamorphosis
Daily Schedule Room 224
| 8:00-8:20 |
Arrival/ Morning Meeting |
| 8:20-9:20 | Math |
| 9:20-10:20 |
Reading |
| 10:30- 11:15 |
STEAM |
| 11:20-11:40/ 11:20-12:00 | Recess & Lunch |
| 12:05-12:40 | Science/ History |
| 12:40-1:25 | Specials |
| 1:25-1:40 | Writing |
| 1:45-2:05 | Recess |
| 2:05-2:20 | Writing |
| 2:25-2:45 | Intervention |
| 2:45-3:20 | Science/History |
| 3:20- 3:30 | Pack Up/ Dismissal |
SPECIALS & STEAM Schedule:
Steam schedule will rotate weekly.
STEAM:
| STEM | Red |
| Music | Orange |
| Tech | Green |
| Art | Blue |
SPECIALS:
| Monday | Spanish |
| Tuesday | Character Educations |
| Wednesday | Library |
| Thursday | PE |
| Friday | ROTATES |
Parent Resources:
Please be sure your student is reading twenty minutes each night. I know this seems like a lot of work but it will pay off in the long run!
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
Meet Mrs. Monheiser
Although I have lived in seven states I am so grateful to be a Colorado native. We moved back to Colorado in 2012 and have fallen in love with this small town community of Castle Rock. My family consists of my husband and our two amazing kids. We have also added another family member to our crew a sweet Labradoodle named Mia.:)
I graduated from the University of North Texas with a degree in Elementary Education. This will be my eleventh year in the classroom and I am super excited to be teaching second grade. What drew me to Aspen View Academy was the rich curriculum and strong support system for all students. It was refreshing to see kids getting exactly what they needed to grow and thrive. I am so grateful to be apart of such an amazing community.
When I have free time I love to be with my family. I also enjoy reading, writing, watching college football, hiking, museums, art and history of any kind.
