BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT

Ms. Morris’ Second Grade

Class

Overview• Welcome• All About Me• General Goals• The Home-School Connection• Programs and Curriculum• Closing• Homeroom Parents

Welcome to Villa One

All About Me

General Goals for Second Grade

•Think and work independently

•Follow directions•Develop responsibility and

self-discipline

More Goals for Second Grade•Develop a longer attention

span•Think critically and

creatively•Work cooperatively with

others

The Home-School Connection

• Students are expected to read every night at home.

We encourage children to develop good work habits at home, as well as school, by doing the following:

The Home-School Connection• Students will have homework four times a week.• Homework should be checked and signed everyday.• Homework will act as a reinforcement of skills or as an

extension of concepts taught in class.• Student Planner comes home daily.• Reading log should be initialed everyday.• Book-it optional (Oct. – March).• Assessment folder comes home every Friday with weekly test- sign tests and folder and return on Mondays (except spelling test).

Programs and Curriculum

• School-wide Theme

• Reading and Language Arts

• Math• Science• Social Studies

• Health• Technology• Field Trips • Special

Classroom Activities

School-wide Theme

2011 - 2012

Building the Future…WES

Reading

A Balanced Literacy Approach including:

• Guided Reading• Self-Selected reading• Word Work• Writing

Pearson Reading Street Anthology Program

• Exploration• Working

Together• Creative

Ideas

• Our Changing World

• Responsibilities• Traditions

Language Arts• Phonics Lessons• Spelling Activities• Handwriting

Instruction• Poetry• Creative Writing *Writer’s

Notebook*

• Language Skills

Everyday MathEM is a spiraling curriculum and, as such, is

based upon the view that learning is most likely to occur through repeated and periodic exposure over a long period of time.

This view of learning – which is bolstered by the most current research on learning – runs counter to the traditional view that when a skill or concept is introduced, students should achieve mastery BEFORE moving on to the next skill or concept.

When learning occurs through repeated practice and exposure over a long period of time, students are more likely to gain deeper levels of comprehension, and they are more likely to retain what they have learned.

Everyday MathContent Strands

• Operations and Computation• Numeration• Patterns, Functions, and Algebra• Data and Chance• Measurement and Reference

Frames• Geometry

ScienceSTC Program

(Science and Technology for Children)

Topics of Study• Soils• Changes in Matter• Nutrition Exploration

Social Studies• Communities - Past and

Present• Weekly Reader • Current Events• Map Skills• Multicultural Time

Health

Here’s Looking at You, 2000• Drug and Alcohol Awareness• Self-Concept• Coping Strategies• Infectious Diseases and Germs• Yoga

Technology

• Basic Computer Awareness

• Weekly use of Tech. Center

• Simple Word Processing

• Teacher Directed Research on Approved District Sites

Field Trips

• Tyler Arboretum• Wallingford Nursing

Home• Colonial Plantation• Nutrition Field Trip• Play at Upper Darby

Performing Arts

F.Y.I.

• Label Items • Snack• Special Classroom Activities• Absence and Change in Dismissal

Notes• Return forms ASAP• Homeroom Parents

• I’m looking forward to a great school year with your children.

Thank you for your help and support throughout the coming

months!