Mrs. Reynolds
Week of: November 3rd
Everything You Need to Know This Week:
- Homework went home on Friday and is due Friday, November 7th.
- Family History Project will be sent home in this week's Thursday Folder. (Due 12/5)
- Pay for Dress of Choice (Red, White, & Blue): Friday, November 7th
Important Information:
- STEM is our rotation for STEAM this week! Friday specials this week: Spanish
- 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:
November:
- Pay for Dress of Choice (Red, White, Blue): Friday, November 7th
- Veteran's Day Assemblies: Tuesday, November 11th (K-4: 9:00am)
- Free Dress of Choice: Friday, November 21st
- Thanksgiving Break, No School: November 24th-28th
December:
- Family History Project due: Friday, December 5th
- 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
January:
- Professional Development, no school for students: Monday, January 5th
- Spirit Wear Day: Friday, January 9th
- Pay for Dress of Choice: Wednesday, January 14th
- MLK Jr. Day, No School: Monday, January 19th
- Free Dress of Choice: Friday, January 30th
Weekly Curriculum & Homework:
Mrs. Reynolds' Reading Skills Group: Skills 3
- Spelling Words Practice
- Spelling Assessment
- Review & Practice
- Tricky Words Review
- Sound Spelling Alternatives & Tricky Spellings
- Spelling Tree
- Nouns (Common & Proper)
- Kids Excel Readings
- Flat Stanley chapter book reading & reading response journal
- Boost Reading
*Please be sure your child is reading for up to 20 min. daily at home!
Mrs. Reynolds' Math Skills Group: Volume 1
- Math Morning Meeting
- Addition Facts: Sums of 10
- Adding 10 to a Multiple of 10
- Finding Missing Numbers on a Piece of the Hundred Number Chart
- Identifying Pairs
- Dividing a Set of Objects Into Groups of Two
- Identifying Tens and Ones
- Identifying Halves, Fourths, and Eighths of a Whole
- Creating and Reading a Bar Graph
- Fact Assessment
- Addition Facts: Sums of 11
- Making an Organized List to Solve a Problem
- Solving a Problem by Acting It Out
- Xtra Math Practice
*Please be sure your child is practicing their math facts at home!
Writing: Journal Writing & How-To Writing
- Review Paragraph Conventions and Writing
- Handwriting Practice
- Writers Workshop
- 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
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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
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- 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
- The state of matter depends on temperature
- Heating or cooling a substance can change its properties
- Water has three states: liquid, solid (ice) and gas (water vapor)
- Building with Matter
- Some objects are made from a single type of matter
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!
