Amy Monheiser
Week of: October 21st-25th
Everything You Need to Know This Week:
- STEAM Rotation for the week is: MUSIC
- Friday Specials: Character Education
- Pay for Dress of Choice: Wednesday, October 23rd.
- Homework will go home Monday and will be due Friday, October 25th.
- Spelling Test: Friday, October 25th.
- Free Dress of Choice: Friday, October 25th
- Please respond to your students Friday journal.
Friendly reminders for the week:
- Please keep sending waterbottles and two snacks as students are very hungry. 🙂
- Please check your student’s math and reading teacher’s page to stay up to date on what your student is working on and homework.
- Mrs. Huffman's Website
- Mrs. Savic's Website
- Mrs. Reynold's Website
- Please reach out to your student’s math or reading teacher.
- Book Order:
- If you would like to place a book order, please click the link below:
- https://orders.scholastic.com/R2QKP
- Our class code is: R2QKP
- Please make sure your student is leaving toys, game cards, and trinkets at home.
- Please label all student items with student name and grade level if you want to see these items again. 🙂
October:
- Fall Party: Thursday, October 31st
- Costume Parade: Thursday, October 31st, from 2:30-3:30
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, November 8th (Students may wear any AVA shirt with uniform bottoms.)
- Free Dress of Choice (Red, White, Blue): Friday, November 8th
- Pay For Dress of Choice: Wednesday, November 20th
- Free Dress of Choice: Friday, November 22nd
- Greece Day: Friday, November 22nd
- Thanksgiving Break: November 25th-29th
- Spirit Wear: Friday, December 13th
- Free Dress: Friday, December 19th
- Winter Party: Friday, December 19th
- No School: Friday, December 20th
- Winter Break: December 23rd-31st
WEEKLY CURRICULUM & HOMEWORK:
Mrs. Monheiser's math skills group:
- Lesson 25: Naming & Exchanging Dollars and Cents
- Assessment 4
- Lesson 26: Adding Dollars & Cents
- Lesson 27: Subtracting Three Digit Numbers
- Lesson 24: Column Addition
- HOMEWORK: Skills review packet due Thursday!
Reading (CKLA Skills):
Mrs. Monheiser's reading skills group:
- Lesson 9: Grammar: Commas and Quotation Marks
- Close Read “The Hare and the Hedgehog”
- Lesson 10: Review and Practice: ‘er’
- Read “How the Hedgehog Tricked the Hare”
- Lesson 11: Grammar: Quotation Marks and Contractions
- Lesson 12: Writing: Draft a Narrative Book Report
- Close Read “The Pancake, Part I”
- Lesson 13: Writing: Edit a Narrative Book Report
- Close Read “The Pancake, Part II”
- Mikes Bedtime
- The Milk
- The Jumping Frog
- The Frog Race
- SPELLING TEST and HOMEWORK DUE: Reading Log, fluency practice due Friday!
Writing:
Current Writing Topic: Journal Writing & Fictional Narrative
- Review paragraph conventions and writing
- Writers Workshop and Step Up to Writing
- Handwriting Practice
CKLA Knowledge: Domain 3: The Ancient Greek Civilization
- Lesson 3: Mount Olympus, Part 2
- Lesson 4: The Olympic Games
- Lesson 5: All for Sparta
- Lesson 6: Athena and the Olive Tree
- Lesson 7: Athens: The Birthplace of Democracy
History: Ancient Greece
- Geography: Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Sea, Crete
- Athens and Sparta as a city-state: the beginnings of democracy
- Persian Wars: Marathon and Thermopylae
- Olympic Games
- Mount Olympus, worship of gods and goddesses
- Great thinkers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- Alexander the Great
Science: Properties of Matter
- Introduction to Matter
- Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space
- There are many types of matter: solid, liquid, and gas
- Properties and Uses of Matter
- Matter has properties that can be measured: size, weight, volume
- Matter can be sorted or classified by properties
- Heating and Cooling Matter
- Water has three states: liquid, solid (ice) and gas (water vapor)
- The state of matter depends on temperature
- Heating or cooling a substance can change its properties
- Building with Matter
- Some objects are made from a single type of matter
- Other objects are made from different types of matter being combined or placed together
SPECIALS & STEAM Schedule:
STEAM Rotation: STEM
STEM: Red
MUSIC: Orange
TECH: Green
ART: Blue
Daily Schedule Room 224
| 8:00-8:20 |
Arrival/Morning Meeting |
| 8:20-9:20 | Math |
| 9:25-10:25 |
Reading |
| 10:30-11:15 |
STEAM: STEM/TECH/ART/MUSIC |
| 11:20-11:40/ 11:20-12:00 | Recess & Lunch |
| 12:05-12:40 | Writing & CKLA |
| 12:40-1:25 | Specials: Spanish/Character Ed/ Library/ PE |
| 1:25-1:40 | CKLA/ Writing |
| 1:45-2:05 | Recess & Snack |
| 2:05-2:35 | Intervention |
| 2:35-3:25 | Science & History |
| 3:25-3:30 | Pack Up and Dismiss |
| 3:20- 3:30 | Pack Up/ Dismissal |
Parent Resources:
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
- Want to know more about NWEA Click here: Family Guide To NWEA & Family Tool Kit for NWEA
- 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 (another student favorite)
- Boddle: Boddle Math (students LOVE this)
- Prodigy: Prodigy Practice for Math & Reading (another student favorite)
- 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. 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 thirteenth year in the classroom and I am super excited to still be teaching second grade. This will be my 9th year in second grade at AVA! 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.
