Back to School Night in Second Grade!

Back to School Night in

Second Grade!

Mrs. P., Mr. B., and Mr. Whalen

Our TeamMs. P (2nd Grade Teacher)Mr. B (Instructional Aide)Mr. Whalen (GW Intern)

WelcomeA Day in the Life of a Second Grader begins with Morning Meeting:

Greeting Morning Message and Wise Words of the WeekScheduleShareEnergizer-Me too!

Language Arts Block: 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 min

Mini-lesson focused on a particular reading strategy and standard: http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/2C.A.F.E. Time

Comprehension (Guided reading and read to self)Accuracy (Word Work)Fluency (Listening Center)Expanding schema (Station work around language standards)

Content Area UnitsScience

Plants, Pollinators, and Agricultural Engineers

Simple Machines and Inventions

H2O and Weather Matters

Our Changing Earth

Social Studies

Westward Expansion and the Northwest Coastal Indians (A Then and Now Study)

Geography, Folktales, and Cultures from Around the World

Content Area Literacy-45 minutes a day to 1 hour

Reading and Writing instruction in the content areas including science and social studies.

Community BuildingOur classroom uses the Responsive Classroom approach to community building and classroom discipline.Please see our Class Promise to see the class rules your students came up with to support their own hopes and dreams for second grade.

Our Class SupportsFriendship Recipes“What’s Bugging You?” Strategy chartComfort CornerNatural Consequences

Math Workshop-90 minutes a day Tues-Fri

Mini-lessonGuided Math Instruction and Centers (Math with a Partner, Math By Myself, Math with Technology, Math with a Teacher).EngageNY and Cathy Fosnot CurriculumM-squared Enrichment Curriculum for Geometry, Measurement, and MultiplicationProblem of the Dayhttp://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/2/NBT

Math SequenceQuarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4Number sense:Putting together and taking apart

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Measurement and Data

Geometry

Responsive InstructionFormative

AssessmentsEnd of unit tests

Rubrics

Quarterly assessments

Class work

Homework

Summative Assessments

Report Cards

DIBELS and TRC

iReady

HomeworkHomework is assigned in a packet distributed at the beginning of the week and should be initialed and returned in the HW folder daily.In the first quarter students will be assigned 1 assignment a night plus their reading log. Spelling will be completed as part of C.A.F.E. time and writer’s workshop.

Field Trips and Celebrations

Class Parent: Joel Churches (Ruby’s Day)joel.churches@gmail.com

Birthday celebrations on Fridays at 3:00 pm in the clasrromWe are hoping to plan field trips to the Botanical Gardens and Smithsonian. I am also on the hunt for a community garden that we can walk to!

Communicationhttp://www.rosselementary.org/kelly.worland@dc.govParent-teacher conferences can be made for most Monday, Thursday, and Friday mornings at 8:15 am. Please contact me directly to schedule a specific time. Weekly letter via the Ross Website. Please register now on the laptops provided.

Thank you!!Questions?Feel free to email me.

An Algebraic Proof

What is the purpose of math?

What math is?

The study of patterns and functions

Process

Abstract representative thinking

Proof and argumentation

Discussion

What math isn’t?

The exclusive study of arithmetic and procedural fluency

Product oriented

Paper and Pencil only

A Combined ViewEnrichment

Depth of knowledge and expansion of number sense through explorations in Algebraic Thinking

Acceleration

Vertical Acceleration through above grade level content

A proof for why an Odd+Odd = Even

Odds and EvensEnrichment

If Odd+Odd=Even what would happen if we did

2(Odd)+2(Odd)=?

3(Odd) + 3(Odd)=?

3(Odd)+2(Odd)=?

Acceleration

Generalizing the rule to larger numbers and explaining why it still works