Curriculum Night

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Curriculum Night

• Second Grade

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Parrot Pride

• Preparation
• Respect
• Integrity
• Determination
• Excellence

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Second Grade Schedule

• 740-755 Prepare for the Day
• 755-855 Reading
• 855-955 Math/Snack
• 955-1035 Specials
• 1035-1100 Phonics
• 1100-1145 Writing
• 1145-1210 Lunch
• 1215- 100 Science/Social Studies
• 100-130 Recess
• 130-220 Teacher Read Aloud/Self Selected
  Reading/Enrichment and Intervention

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Why Common Core?

• Common Core State Standards provide a consistent,
  clear understanding of what students are expected
  to learn, so teachers and parents know what they
  need to do to help them. The Standards are
  designed to be strong and relevant to the real
  world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that
  our young people need for success in college and
  careers. With American students fully prepared
  for the future, our communities will be best
  positioned to compete successfully in the global
  economy.

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Math

• We will focus on four critical areas (1)
  extending understanding of base-ten notation (2)
  building fluency with addition and subtraction
  (3) using standard units of measure and (4)
  describing and analyzing shapes.
• 1. Students extend their understanding of the
  base-ten system. This includes ideas of counting
  in fives, tens, and multiples of hundreds, tens,
  and ones, as well as number relationships
  involving these units, including comparing.
  Students understand multi-digit numbers (up to
  1000) written in base-ten notation, recognizing
  that the digits in each place represent amounts
  of thousands, hundreds, tens, or ones (e.g., 853
  is 8 hundreds 5 tens 3 ones).

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Math Continued

• 2. Students use their understanding of addition
  to develop fluency with addition and subtraction
  within 100. They solve problems within 1000 by
  applying their understanding of models for
  addition and subtraction, and they develop,
  discuss, and use efficient, accurate, and
  generalizable methods to compute sums and
  differences of whole numbers in base-ten
  notation, using their understanding of place
  value and the properties of operations. They
  select and accurately apply methods that are
  appropriate for the context and the numbers
  involved to mentally calculate sums and
  differences for numbers with only tens or only
  hundreds.
• 3. Students recognize the need for standard units
  of measure (centimeter and inch) and they use
  rulers and other measurement tools with the
  understanding that linear measure involves an
  iteration of units. They recognize that the
  smaller the unit, the more iterations they need
  to cover a given length.
• 4. Students describe and analyze shapes by
  examining their sides and angles. Students
  investigate, describe, and reason about
  decomposing and combining shapes to make other
  shapes. Through building, drawing, and analyzing
  two- and three-dimensional shapes, students
  develop a foundation for understanding area,
  volume, congruence, similarity, and symmetry in
  later grades.

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Science

• Summarize the life cycle of animals including
  Birth, Developing into an adult, Reproducing,
  Aging and death
• Compare life cycles of different animals such as,
  but not limited to, mealworms, ladybugs,
  crickets, guppies, or frogs.
• Remember that organisms differ from or are
  similar to their parents based on the
  characteristics of the organism.
• Field trip All A Flutter Butterfly Farm

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• Summarize how energy from the sun serves as a
  source of light that warms the land, air, and
  water
• Summarize weather conditions using qualitative
  and quantitative measures to describe
  Temperature, Wind direction, Wind speed,
  Precipitation
• Compare weather patterns that occur over time and
  relate observable patterns to time of day and
  time of year.
• Recognize the tools that scientists use for
  observing, recording, and predicting weather
  changes from day to day and during the seasons.
• Visit from WXII meteorologist, Lanie Pope

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• Give examples of matter that change from a solid
  to a liquid and from a liquid to a solid by
  heating and cooling
• Compare the amount (volume and weight) of water
  in a container before and after freezing.
• Compare what happens to water left in an open
  container over time as to water left in a closed
  container.
• Visit from Mad Scientist
• Illustrate how sound is produced by vibrating
  objects and columns of air.
• Summarize the relationship between sound and
  objects of the body that vibrate-eardrum and
  vocal cords
• Culminating Activity Second Grade Sound Parade

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Social Studies

• Exemplify characteristics of good citizenship
  through historical figures and everyday figures.
• Explain why it is important for citizens to
  participate in their community.
• Explain how artistic expressions of diverse
  cultures contribute to the community (stories,
  art, music, food, etc.).
•   Exemplify respect and appropriate social skills
  needed for working with diverse groups.
•  Use timelines to show sequencing of events.
•   Identify contributions of historical figures
  (community, state, nation and world) through
  various genres.

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• Explain government services and their value to
  the community. (libraries, schools, parks, etc.)
• Explain how governments establish order, provide
  security and create laws to manage conflict.
• Interpret maps of the school and community that
  contain symbols, legends, and cardinal
  directions.
• Interpret the meaning of symbols and the location
  of physical and human features on a map (cities,
  railroads, highways, countries, continents,
  oceans, etc.).
• Give examples of ways in which people depend on
  the physical environment and natural resources to
  meet basic needs.
• Explain how people positively and negatively
  affect the environment.
• Field Trips Neighborhood Walk, Mrs. Hanes
  Cookie Factory, and WFU Museum of Anthropology

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Second Grade Community Outreach

• The Elms Nursing Home
• Clemmons Food Pantry
• October-Peanut butter
• November-Soup
• December-Spaghetti sauce
• January-Oatmeal/Grits
• February-Canned Fruit
• March- Canned Meat
• April-Cereal
• May-Toilet Paper/Toothbrushes

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• ASK and ANSWER such questions as who, what, when,
  where, why and how to DEMONSTRATE understanding
  of key details in a text
• RECOUNT stories, including fables and folktales
  from diverse cultures, and DETERMINE their
  central
• message, lesson, or moral.
• DESCRIBE how characters in a story respond to
  major events and challenges.
• ACKNOWLEDGE differences in the points of view of
  characters, including by speaking in a different
  voice for each character when reading dialogue
  aloud. USE information gained from the
  illustrations and words in a print or digital
  text to DEMONSTRATE understanding of its
  characters, setting, or plot.
• COMPARE and CONTRAST two or more versions of the
  same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by
  different authors or from different cultures.

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• Identify the main purpose of a text, including
  what the author wants to answer, explain, or
  describe.
• Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram
  showing how a machine works) contribute to and
  clarify a text.
• Describe how reasons support specific points the
  author makes in a text.
• Read and comprehend literature, including stories
  and poetry,
• Compare and contrast the most important points
  presented by two texts on the same topic.
• Read and comprehend informational texts,
  including history/social studies, science, and
  technical texts

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• Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular
  beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines)
  supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or
  song.
• Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text
  as well as the focus of specific paragraphs
  within the text.
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases
  in a text.
• Know and use various text features (e.g.,
  captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries,
  indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key
  facts or information in a text efficiently.
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Genre

• Storybooks
• Short Chapter Books
• Newspapers, Telephone books, Signs/Labels
• Short Poems\Word Plays
• Skits and Short Plays (Reader Theater)
• Emphasis on non-fiction
• Field trip Clemmons Public Library

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Writing

• Write narratives in which they recount a well
  elaborated event or short sequence of events,
  include details to describe actions, thoughts,
  and feelings, use sequential words to signal
  event order, and provide a sense of closure.
• Write informative/explanatory texts in which they
  introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to
  develop points, and provide a concluding
  statement or section
• Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the
  topic or book they are writing about, state an
  opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion,
  use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to
  connect opinion and reasons, and provide a
  concluding statement or section
• Participate in shared research and writing
  projects (e.g., read a number of books on a
  single topic to produce a report record science
  observations).
• Recall information from experiences or gather
  information from provided sources to answer a
  question.
•  Write informative/explanatory texts in which
  they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions
  to develop points, and provide a concluding
  statement or section.
•  Participate in shared research and writing
  projects (e.g., read a number of books on a
  single topic to produce a report record science
  observations).
• Recall information from experiences or gather
  information from provided sources to answer a
  question.

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Speaking and Listening

• Participate in collaborative conversations with
  diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts
  with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
•      a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
  (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways,
  listening to others with care, speaking one at a
  time about the topics and texts under
  discussion).
•   b. Build on others talk in conversations by
  linking their comments to the remarks of others.
• c. Ask for clarification and further
  explanation as needed about the topics and texts
  under discussion.
•   Recount or describe key ideas or details from a
  text read aloud or information presented orally
  or through other media. 
• Ask and answer questions about what a speaker
  says in order to clarify comprehension, gather
  additional information, or deepen understanding
  of a topic or issue.
• Tell a story or recount an experience with
  appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive
  details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

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Helpful Websites
pbskids.org Starfall.com Aplusmath.com Kidsknowit.com Bookadventure.org Tumblebooks.com Clemmons Elementary Website

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