Welcome to 2nd Grade Curriculum Night

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Welcome to 2nd Grade Curriculum Night

• Year 2013-2014

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Second Grade Teachers

• Mrs. King Room 18
• Mrs. McBurney Room 13
• Mrs. Potts Room 16
• Mrs. Sellier Room 17
• Ms. Strawn Room 12

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Reading

• Combination Whole Group/Small Group
• Your child will
• Master sound/symbol relationships
• Blend sounds to form words
• Read with understanding (comprehension)
• Develop oral reading fluency
• Develop literal, logical, and critical thinking
  skills
• Develop listening skills through exposure to
  high-quality literature
• Your child will also be participating in Daily 5
  activities
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Reading - Common Core Academic Content Standards

• Approved - AZ. State Board of Education June 2010
• Full implementation of the Common Core Standards
• Performance objectives are very specific
• Represents the skills that are a part of everyday
  expectations
• The main focus is to deepen understanding with
  more meaningful, rigorous lessons for our
  students so they can read and comprehend complex
  text. Students will analyze and use critical
  thinking skills to communicate opinions and how
  to support them in arguments.

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Math

• The following are the math concepts that we will
  be working on throughout the year 
• Place Value and Counting
• 2 and 3 Digit Addition with/without Regrouping
• 2 and 3 Digit Subtraction with/without Regrouping
• Money
• Telling time to 5 minutes
• Fractions
• Geometry (Shapes, Symmetry)
• Word Problems will be used with each concept.

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Math DOK(Depth of Knowledge)

• Students Will
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
  the problem
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively
• Model with mathematics
• Look for and express regularity in repeated
  reasoning
• Come up with multiple solutions to a problem
  (i.e. 5510, 6410, 11-110, 10 ones, 1 ten, 10
  pennies, 1 nickel and 5 pennies.)
• Use different mathematical strategies to solve a
  problem.

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Writing

• Your child will be given numerous opportunities
  to write daily.
• Writing pieces which give your child continuing
  exposure to the writing process (pre-writing,
  rough draft, editing/revision, publishing) using
  the Write From the Beginning Series.
• Literacy response activities
• Book Report projects
• Different types of genre writing include
• Friendly Letters
• Narratives
• Functional Text (classroom rules, letters,
  experiments, recipes, notes/messages, labels,
  directions, posters, graphs/tables)
• Poetry, Rhymes and Chants
• Literature Responses
• Expository Text

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Spelling and Handwriting

• Your child will receive a group of spelling words
  weekly. The assessment will include assigned
  words using the Words Their Way program, 2nd
  grade sight words, and dictation. A percentage
  grade will be given for spelling accuracy. Formal
  tests will be given on the last day of the week.
  Your childs handwriting effort will also be
  evaluated on this test.
• Handwriting Evaluation
• Handwriting effort grades are
• determined by performance on
• weekly spelling tests and random
• selections of daily work.

MS Excellent-Correct and consistent formation and
spacing of letters and words. Writing is neat
and legible. P Satisfactory-Some flaws in
handwriting appear. Refer to MS for other
criteria. AC Needs Improvement-Substantial
flaws and/or lacks effort to improve. Illegible
writing.
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Science

• Life Cycles
• Digestive, Respiratory, and Circulatory Systems
• Solids, Liquids, and Gases
• Types of Clouds
• Measuring Weather
• Inventors and their Inventions

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Social Studies

• Research Skills, timelines
• American Colonies and the New Nation
• Westward Expansion
• The Foundations of Government
• Branches of Government
• Economics-producers and consumers
• Map Skills
• Citizenship and Character Counts

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EVALUATING THEPRIMARY STUDENT

• DIBELS reading fluency
• DAILY 5/CAFE
• DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment) reading
  fluency and comprehension
• SAT 10
• 2nd Grade Sight Words (Reading and spelling.)
• Words Their Way
• Write from the Beginning
• Common Core assessments
• Teacher Observation

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Grading

• Percentage
• Rubric
• Effort
• Progress Reports
• Report Card

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Grading

• Letter Grade Percentage Rubric Effort Progress
  Report
• A 98-100 A 4 (6 5) E
  OG 94-97 A
  (On Grade Level)
• 90-93 A-
• B 88-89 B 3 S
  OG
• 84-87 B (On Grade Level)
• 80-83 B-
• C 78-79 C 2
• 74-77 C
• 70-73 C-
• D 68-69 D 1 N BG
• 64-67 D (Below
  Grade Level)
• 60-63 D-
• F 0-59 0

Report CardIndicatorsMS 100-85P
84-70AC 69 and below
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Homework

• The focus in second grade is READING , 20 minutes
  per night.  In addition, we will send home the
  following
• Words Their Way (word sorts and activities)
• Math practice/enrichment
• Special Projects
• The Second Grade team will be sending homework
  home on Fridays. It is due the following Friday.
  Homework will not be graded, however it will be
  monitored for participation.
• Please note Homework not turned in by the
  student on Friday will result in the loss of
  Friday free time.

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Fun Friday

• Fun Friday - free time activities
• Completed homework
• Completed class work
• A Behavior
• Consequences
• 2 letters from S.T.O.R.M loss of free time
  activities.
• Incomplete assignments will be completed during
  this time.

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Santan Storm
2 letters in one week will result in a loss of
Fun Friday
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Santan School-Wide Bully Program - Olweus

• What is Bullying?
• A person is bullied when he or she is exposed,
  repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on
  the part of one or more other persons, and he or
  she has difficulty defending himself or herself.
• Expressed in more everyday language one
  might say Bullying is when someone repeatedly
  and on purpose says or does mean or hurtful
  things to another person who has a hard time
  defending himself or herself.

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Santan School-Wide Bully Program Olweus

• What Are the Goals of the Program?
• The goals of the program are to
• reduce any existing bullying problems among
  students
• prevent the development of new bullying problems
• achieve better peer relations at school (Weekly
  Classroom Lessons)
• Our Schools Anti-Bullying Rules
• We will not bully others
• We will try to help students who are bullied.
• We will try to include students who are left out.
• If we know that somebody is being bullied, we
  will tell an adult at school and an adult at
  home.
• We will practice each pillar of character daily
  respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, caring,
  fairness and citizenship.

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Volunteers

• We love to have family members- parents,
  grandparents, high school students join us as
  volunteers in our second grade classroom! Please
  see your teacher if you are interested in
  volunteering.
• While in the classroom, you will sometimes be
  working with students, and/or viewing student
  work and behavior. In order to maintain a
  professional atmosphere where students are safe
  to work, learn, and play at their own levels, it
  is essential that we keep all observations
  confidential. Out of respect for the students, we
  ask that you do not share private information
  about students that you may witness in the
  classroom with other people. Children perform at
  varying learning levels and have different
  personalities. By asking you to follow these
  guidelines, we can ensure that information about
  your child will be kept private as well.
• Thank you for your understanding and cooperation
  on this policy. We look forward to working with
  you this year!

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Bits and Pieces

• Snacks
• Students are permitted to bring their own
  healthy snack from home to eat during class
  time.  Candy is not considered a snack, and if
  brought, will be asked to put away until
  dismissal.  
• Lunch
• If your child will be purchasing lunch at
  school, please have them give us their money or
  check in the morning so we can add it to their
  lunch account or bring it to the MPR before
  school starts. You can also access your
  students lunch account at www.mylunchmoney.com.
  You are welcome to join your child for lunch on
  Fridays.
•  Dismissal
• Please be sure to send an email or a note with
  your child anytime he/she will be going home a
  different way than usual (bus rather than walk,
  home with a friend, etc.) In order to minimize
  distractions in the classroom, parents are
  expected to wait outside in the designated parent
  pick-up area until the bell rings.

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Tax Credit Q and A

• Q Who can donate?
• A Any Arizona tax payer.
• This includes...
• Family Friends
• Any Community Members
• Aunts and Uncles

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What do we use the Tax Credits for?

• We use tax credits to fund our field trips. We
  are currently planning the following field trips
  for this year
• Halle Heart Center
• Childsplay Theater
• Arizona Science Center - Weather
• Science on Wheels
• Rockin R Ranch

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Thank You for Coming!

• Thank you so much for coming. We cant wait to
  work with your child this school year!
• Its a privilege to be a part of your childs
  learning development and it is very rewarding to
  see the progress they make along the way!
• If you ever have any questions, concerns, or
  comments, please feel free to call, set up a
  meeting, or email your child's teacher.
• - The 2nd Grade Team