Welcome to Second Grade!

Week of October 21st-October 25th, 2024

Important Information: 

Tech is our rotation for STEAM this week! We have Library on Friday for our specials rotation.

• Please send your student with a 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.
• Dress for the weather!

 

UPCOMING EVENTS/DATES:

October:

• Fall Break: October 14th-18th
• Fall Party: Thursday, October 31st
• Costume Parade: Thursday, October 31st 2:30-3

 

Weekly Curriculum:

 

Reading (CKLA): 

Mrs. Huffman's reading 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”

HOMEWORK DUE AND SPELLING TEST: Friday, 10/25

Math (Saxon) 

Mrs. Huffman's math group:

• Lesson 86 Writing Money Amounts Using Dollar Signs and Cent Symbols
• Lesson 87 Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers Using Dimes and Pennies (Part 1)
• Lesson 88 Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers Using Dimes and Pennies (Part 2)
• Lesson 89 Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers (Part 1)
• Lesson 90-1 Subtracting 6 Facts Solving a Problem by Guessing and Checking
• Lesson 90-2 Written Assessment 17 Oral Assessment 9 Covering the Same Design in Different Ways Using Tangram Pieces
• HOMEWORK: Due Friday, 10/25

 

Writing: 

Current Writing Topic: Fictional Narrative

• Review paragraph conventions and writing
• Writers Workshop and Step Up to Writing 
• Handwriting Practice

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

Core Knowledge: Short Stories/Poetry

• Talk Iktomi Stories
• Beauty and the Beast
• Peter Pan
• Bed in Summer
• Tall Tales 
• Buffalo Dusk 
• Windy Nights

 

History: The Ancient Greek Civilization

• • 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 mater; solid, liquid, 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

Daily Schedule:
8:00-8:20	Morning Work/Morning Meeting/Announcements
8:20-9:20	Math
9:25-10:25	CKLA/Reading
10:30-11:15	STEAM (Science/Engineering, Technology, Art, Music)
11:20-12:00	Recess/Lunch
12:05-12:40	CKLA/Writing
12:40-1:25	Specials (Spanish, Library, Character Education, PE)
1:25-1:45	CKLA/Writing
1:45-2:00	Recess/Snack
2:05-2:35	Intervention
2:35-3:25	History/Science
3:25-3:30	Pack up
3:30	Dismissal

 

STEAM SCHEDULE 10:30-11:15am

*WEEKLY ROTATION*

Week 1	Music
Week 2	Technology
Week 3	Art
Week 4	Stem

 

SPECIALS SCHEDULE: 12:40-1:25pm

*DAILY ROTATION*

Monday	Character Ed
Tuesday	Library
Wednesday	PE
Thursday	Spanish
Friday	Rotate

 

 

GROWTH MINDSET:

Growth mindset is the idea that, with effort, it's possible to increase intelligence levels, talents, and abilities. Students who demonstrate a growth mindset believe their abilities develop over time, tend to seek out opportunities to gain new knowledge and broaden their skills, and do not typically shy away from challenges (Kazakoff & Mitchell, 2017).

 

Students with a growth mindset believe that intelligence can be developed. These students focus on learning over just looking smart, see effort as the key to success, and thrive in the face of a challenge.

Students with a fixed mindset believe that people are born with a certain amount of intelligence, and they can’t do much to change that. These students focus on looking smart over learning, see effort as a sign of low ability, and wilt in the face of a challenge.​