Welcome to Second GradeSecond Grade Team

Cari ShankLinda Melbourn

Candace SchulzeLindsay HardieDeOnn Wallace

Getting to Know the Team:

•Background

•Education

•Years Teaching

Communication

• Newsletter sent out weekly on Thursdays. It will have information for the upcoming week.

• Report cards sent home every 6 weeks.• Progress reports every 3 weeks.• The first parent conferences will be held in

October. After that conferences will be on an as need basis. You may call/email the teacher or office and set up a conference at anytime. If you set up a conference, please give a heads up on what it is about School Phone 817-698-6606

•Phone calls and emails are returned during conference time: 8:35 – 9:30

**If your email or call is not returned in a timely manner, please try the method not used to ensure we have received the message.

Behavior Pledge/Contract

• Our behavior plan is based on the Clara Love Pledge.

• The behavior plan/contract is on the yellow paper in your child’s BOOT Binder. Please make sure you check and sign it each night.

• Rewards: Caught Jar, Class Parties, Encouragement, Choice Celebration (Fridays), Boot Scoot Celebrations

• BOOT Binder

Daily Schedule

• 7:50 - 8:35 Morning Activities • 8:35 - 9:30 Specials/ Teacher Conference• 9:30 - 10:05 Science• 10:05 - 11:10 Math• 11:10 - 11:40 Lunch• 11:40 - 12:10 Recess• 12:10 - 2:40 Reader’s Workshop, Writer’s

Workshop, Skills Block, and Social Studies• 2:40 - 2:50 Clean up procedures/dismissal

Lunch• Placing money in your child’s account before

they get to school is much easier than having them bring money each day. You can add money to your child’s account online at :https://www.mynutrikids.com.

• Please sit with your child at the reserved tables near the dining room windows. Make this a special time for your child by turning off cell phones and electronic devices. You are your child’s special guest for the day! For safety reasons, please do not invite other children to the table.

Math: • Use place value with numbers through 100.• Compose and decompose numbers (represent numbers in multiple ways).• Memorize and use addition and subtraction to 18.• Model addition and subtraction and solve problems with 2-digit numbers

with and without regrouping.• Model fractional parts of whole and of a set.• Find the value of groups of coins up to $1.00 and use cent and dollar

symbols and decimal points to describe them.• Multiply and divide with concrete objects.• Use patterns in numbers and operations such as on 100 charts, in place

value, and fact families.• Describe relationships and make predictions as in paired numbers and

patterns in repeated addition.• Describe and compare 2-D shapes and 3-D figures such as circles, polygons,

spheres, cones, cylinders, and pyramids.• Locate numbers on a number line.• Tell time on analog and digital clocks using five minute increments.• Measure lengths with non-standard objects that are about 1 inch, 1 foot,

etc.• Compare attributes of length, area, weight, and capacity to solve problems.• Read a thermometer.• Construct and draw conclusions from picture and bar graphs.• Solve problems using a plan and appropriate problem solving strategies,

including manipulatives, and communicate about the mathematics through informal language.

Science• Plan and conduct simple investigations using standard

and non-standard measurement units.• Identify components and processes of the natural world

(water cycle, use of resources).• Observe melting and evaporation, weathering, and

pushing/pulling of objects as examples of change.• Distinguish between characteristics of living organisms

and nonliving objects and compare plant/animal needs for survival.

• Describe living organisms dependence on their environments and identify functions and parts of plants and animals.

• Describe a system as a collection of cycles, structures and processes that interact while exhibiting patterns of change which can be observed and measured for prediction purposes.

• Use models of objects and events as tools to understand the natural world and systems.

• Units are based on hands-on and inquiry based learning.

Language Arts• Read independent and instructional level selections

fluently (90 words correct per minute).• Include newly acquired vocabulary in language.• Accurately apply knowledge of phonics when reading

and spelling.  • Accurately read and spell high-frequency and

unfamiliar words.• Reread sentences when meaning is not clear.• Interpret diagrams, charts, and graphs.• Recall facts and details from text.• Discuss and connect information across fiction and

informational text.

Language Arts Continued

• Make reasonable judgments about what to include in writing tasks.

• Write for different audiences and purposes.• Generate ideas before writing; edit first drafts of writing

for publication.• Demonstrate organization in writing assignments.• Attend to spelling, mechanics, and presentation for final

products.• All Language Arts will be done through the Reader’s and

Writer’s Workshop.

• What do the workshops look like?• Notebooking in our workshops

What Does Workshop Look Like?

Million Words Book Club

• This is the same thing as our 100 Book Club from last year just with a new title.

• It’s called the Million Words Club because reading 100 books is the same thing as reading 1 million words.

• The first 25 books on your child’s reading log will come from books read at school.

• A reading log will come home after our Kick-off on September 24th

Special Classes• Library Skills –Mrs. Kosek- Please

have your child bring their book back each week so they are able to check out a new book. It’s best to keep the book inside a Ziploc bag so they do not get damaged.

• Music – Ms. Kisor• P.E. – Ms. Nault – Gym shoes must

be worn to participate• Art – Ms. Grannan

How can YOU help?

• Volunteer to help at school. Sign up on sheet at the door before you leave tonight. We love having volunteers in the classroom to help out during the Work Period of our Workshops.

• Send in special supplies for fun units. • Read with your child each evening for 20 minutes.

Second graders benefit greatly from being read to as well as reading to you.

• Call and/or email notes if you have questions.• Review student work brought home and return BOOT

binder daily – Empty! • Don’t forget to join the Clara Love PTA!

• Birthday treats – we are no longer serve them during lunch. They may be served the last 15 minutes of the school day. Please notify your child’s teacher if you want to send cupcakes to school.• Cookie Dough Fundraiser – ends Friday!• Background checks for volunteers can be done online . Go to the Clara Love website and click on the parent tab to find the online form.• Homework will begin the second six weeks. It will nightly include reading (20 minutes) and spelling. Math may be added; however, a calendar will be set up as needed to explain this.• Snack looks different in each class; however, we all serve snack! Your child’s teacher can give you specific details.

Important Information

Absent from School:

• 1. Call the office by 9:30• 2. Can request make-up work

from your child’s teacher.• 3. Please try and let the

teacher know if your child is going to miss school for

vacation.

QUESTIONS

We are so excited to Blaze New Trails in

Second Grade!