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Welcome to
Second Grade!
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Second Grade Team Jaime Lyons MaeLani Bird Kristin Cullen Kathleen MacLaren (Inclusion)
Tracy Rickert Katie Vaughan
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Hawk Elementary School Mission Statement
The mission of Hawk Elementary is to create successful learners.
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Math Curriculum A Bridges classroom features a combination of whole-group, small-
group, and independent activities. Lessons incorporate increasingly complex visual models - seeing, touching, working with manipulatives, and sketching ideas - to create pictures in the mind's eye that helps learners invent, understand, and remember mathematical ideas. By encouraging students to explore, test, and justify their reasoning, the curriculum facilitates the development of mathematical thinking for students of all learning styles.
http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/materials/parents/parents2
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Science Curriculum Hands-on Classrooms…
do not look like traditional classrooms. They are noisy, active, full of questions, and much discussion. Students are consulting with one another and teachers about their findings. There is conversation, observation, comparison and note taking occurring. Teachers roam the room, facilitating instructions and using well-formed questions to guide the learning that is occurring “live” in the classroom. Through the selective use of inquiry, students use materials, apply prior knowledge, and move forward in the lesson.
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Social Studies Curriculum
Focuses on historical figures, map skills, chronological time, landforms, landmarks, economics, holidays, etc.
We integrate as much of our social studies into our other subject areas as possible
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Café (Reading) CAFE is an acronym for Comprehension,
Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary, and the system includes goal-setting with students in individual conferences, posting of goals on a whole-class board, developing small group instruction based on clusters of students with similar goals, and targeting whole-class instruction based on emerging student needs and fine tuning one on one conferring.
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Daily Take-Home Folders
Daily folders serve as a communication tool and a way to track student behavior.
Calendar – please check and sign daily
Math Log (40 minutes per week if needed)
Spelling List (also available on webpage)
Book Talk
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Math Log Twice each grading period, students
will be given a timed math facts test. Students who show proficiency (95%)
will not be responsible for the math log for the remainder of the grading period.
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Homework Spelling at Home (2x Test per 6 Weeks)
Math Log (as needed)
Math Homework as Needed on an Individual Basis
Book Talk (Nonfiction)
Response Sheet (2 Chapter Books)
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Target Binder Used to provide feedback to students Portfolio Provide student accountability Student goal setting Show progress
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DRA/ELI More rigorous Reading level may differ slightly from
last year
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Report Card The standards based report card is a
more detailed picture of your child’s progress in each subject area.
The report card is on the 1,2,3 scale and will need to be signed and returned each six weeks.
http://www.dentonisd.org/Page/2289
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We promise…
As we begin to modify and improve upon our assessment practices, we can make you these promises:
Your child will continue to experience high quality learning.
We will continue to provide you with information about your child's learning and progress
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2nd Grade T-Shirt Coming Soon!! Field trips (Sharkarosa in Oct., TWU
Kids Dance, Clear Creek) Field Day
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Please check out our grade level webpage and teacher webpage
http://www.dentonisd.org/Page/2279
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Mavfest September 21
Please sign up for volunteer
opportunities on your way out
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Let’s Have a Great Year!