Mrs. Savic's Second Grade Class
Week of: November 3rd-November 7th
Everything You Need to Know This Week:
- Math and reading homework went home on Friday and will be due Friday, November 7th.
- Don't forget to study your spelling words!
- Please write in your student's Friday Journal and return it to their backpack.
- Friday, November 7th: Pay for Dress of Choice (Wear red, white and blue)
- MUSIC is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: Character Ed
- Scholastic Book Order: Please visit www.scholastic.com and place your order online by using our special class code 2KPO6.
FRIENDLY REMINDERS:
- Please write in your student's Friday Journal and return it to their backpack.
- Please keep sending two nut-free snacks and a filled water bottle with your child daily.
- Each week, don't forget to empty out your child's Thursday Folder. Have your child return it to school on Friday.
- Please check your student's math and reading teacher's page to stay up to date on homework and what your student is working on in class.
- We will go outside if the "feels like" temperature is above 20 degrees, so please have your child bring coats, boots and cold weather gear as needed. Thank you!
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- To avoid lost or broken student items, please leave toys and personal items at home.
- Please label all student items with your student's first and last name & grade level.
- Dress for the weather! Don't forget labeled coats, hats, and gloves when necessary.
STEAM & SPECIALS SCHEDULE:
STEAM Rotation: (Art, STEM, Music, Technology)
ART: Red
STEM: Orange
MUSIC: Green
TECHNOLOGY: Blue
SPECIALS:
Monday: PE
Tuesday: Spanish
Wednesday: Character Education
Thursday: Library
Friday: Rotates (PE, Spanish, Character Education, Library)
Upcoming:
November:
- Pay for Dress of Choice (Red, White, Blue): Friday, November 7th
- Veteran's Day Assembly: Tuesday, November 11th
- Free Dress of Choice: Friday, November 21st
- Thanksgiving Break (No School): November 24th-28th
December:
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, December 12th
- Holiday Party & Free Dress of Choice: Thursday, December 18th
- Teacher Workday: Friday, December 19th
- Winter Break, No School: December 22nd-Janurary 2nd
WEEKLY CURRICULUM & HOMEWORK:
Mrs. Savic's Reading (CKLA) Skills Group: Skills 3
- Lesson 6: Spelling Alternatives: The /oe/ sound and Its Spellings
- Lesson 7: Spelling Alternatives: Review /oe/> 'oa' and 'oe'
- Lesson 8: Spelling Alternatives: Tricky Spelling 'o'> /o/ and /oe/
- Lesson 9: Spelling Alternatives: Tricky Spelling 'o'> /o/ and /oe/
- Lesson 10: Spelling Assessment
- Kids Excel Readings: “Miss Baker," The Swimming Sisters," " Val's Training," "Kim's Training"
- Freckle Juice chapter book reading and reading response journal
- Boost Reading
- Please be sure your child is reading at least 20 minutes a day.
Mrs. Savic's Math Skills Group: Volume 1
- Lesson 36: Adding 10 to a Multiple of 10
- Find Missing Numbers on a Piece of the Hundred Number Chart
- Lesson 37: Identifying Pairs
- Dividing a Set of Objects Into Groups of Two
- Lesson 38: Identifying Tens and Ones
- Lesson 39: Identifying Halves, Fourths, and Eighths of a Whole
- Creating and Reading a Bar Graph
- Lesson 40-1: Addition Facts: Sums of 11
- Making an Organized List to Solve a Problem
- Solving a Problem by Acting It Out
- Xtra Math
- Keep practicing your math facts!
Writing: Foundations of Writing and Journal Writing
- Review paragraph conventions and writing
- Writers Workshop and Step Up to Writing
- Handwriting Practice
How-To Writing
- 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 and Assessment
History: Westward Expansion
- 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
- Native Americans
- 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: 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
Parent Resources:
Reading every day is important! Look at the statistic below:
DIBELS Reading Assessment: is administered three times a year and also continuously monitored throughout. You will be receiving the results in Thursday folder 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 your child's Thursday folder.
- Want to know more about NWEA click here: Family Guide To NWEA & Family Tool Kit for NWEA
Reading Resources: Some of these may cost money, but I wanted you to know they are out there.
- EPIC books: https://www.getepic.com/sign-in ( 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)
Math Resources
- 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)
MEET MRS. SAVIC
Welcome to 2nd grade! My name is Branka Savic, and I am pleased to welcome you to the 2025-2026 school year. This is my 19th year in education and my 2nd year teaching second grade here at Aspen View Academy. I have experience working with preschool students, kindergarten, and grades 2nd through 4th. I look forward to meeting you and getting to know you this school year. We are going to have a wonderful year together!
DAILY SCHEDULE
8:00-8:25 Welcome/Morning Work
8:25-9:25 CKLA Skills
9:25-10:00 CKLA/Writing
10:00-10:45 STEAM
10:50-11:10 Recess
11:10-11:30 Lunch
11:35-12:35 Math
12:35-1:30 History/Science/
Knowledge
1:30-2:15 Specials
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/Dismissal