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Transcript of BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT Ms. Morris’ Second Grade Class.
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!