Welcome to Second Grade 20092010

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Welcome to Second Grade 2009-2010
developing a community of life long learners
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Grading System / Report Cards

• 9 weeks grading periods
• Grading Scale
• 1-Experiencing difficulty
• 2-Making progress toward mastery of grade
  level expectations
• 3-Meeting EXIT level expectations
• 4-Exceeding grade level expectations

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Routines

• Morning Routines
• Classroom meetings/developing a classroom
  community
• Early Morning Intervention strategies to
  improve in subjects areas
• Classroom Money
• Daily Routine
• Behavior Calendars Reading Logs
• Weekly Routines
• Wednesday info sent home from school
• Library time

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Discipline

• Classroom discipline plan ROAR
• Respect everyone
• Only Appreciations, no put downs
• Actively Listening
• Right to participate
• Doing our Personal Best!
• We use a money system to help teach the concept
  of money and for the students to earn special
  activities.

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Academics

• problem solving / CGI
• basic math facts addition subtraction
• regrouping addition subtraction
• place value to 100
• money recognition, counting money
• measurement
• basic fractions
• graphing, data, probability
• telling time analog digital

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READING

• Literacy Work Stations grammar, spelling, word
  building, etc.
• Guided Reading small groups
• Reading Strategies taught
• Fluency, Comprehension, Vocabulary,Summarizing
• Students are expected to read each evening for 20
  minutes and record in Reading Log with parent
  signature.
• Testing
• DRA Developmental Reading Assessment
  
• TPRI Texas Primary Reading Inventory

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• 6 1 Writing Traits model TAKS preparation
• Writers Workshop
• Mini Writing lessons
• Journals
• Short Stories
• Poetry
• Friendly Letters
• Informative Reports
• Graphic Organizers
• High frequency word list
• Handwriting
• Sentence types / mechanics
• Daily Oral Language - grammar

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Science

• environment - recycling
• plants
• animals
• life cycles
• weather
• properties of matter
• Social Studies
• government
• economics
• map skills
• landforms
• Native Americans
• goods services
• communities
• patriotic symbols

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Daily Schedule

• 730 Arrival
• 745 Morning meetings/pledges/announcements
• 755 Early Morning Intervention Groups
• 830 Math
• 950 Special Areas
• 1040 Science / Social Studies
• 1140 Lunch
• 1215 Language Arts Block
• 200 Recess
• 240 Dismissal

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Community Service Project

• Every grade level is participating in a community
  project
• Colleges are looking for community service work
  on students applications
• Involving the students in community projects
• Local SPCA working to raise funds for food and
  then volunteering at shelter
• Bats creating awareness of safety issues

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Homework

• work that is not completed in class or study
  hall
• Read every day for 20 minutes or more
• Math Problem Solving journal
• Projects
• Book reports