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BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT
Ms. Morris’ Second Grade
Class
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Overview• Welcome• All About Me• General Goals• The Home-School Connection• Programs and Curriculum• Closing• Homeroom Parents
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Welcome to Villa One
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All About Me
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General Goals for Second Grade
•Think and work independently
•Follow directions•Develop responsibility and
self-discipline
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More Goals for Second Grade•Develop a longer attention
span•Think critically and
creatively•Work cooperatively with
others
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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:
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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).
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Programs and Curriculum
• School-wide Theme
• Reading and Language Arts
• Math• Science• Social Studies
• Health• Technology• Field Trips • Special
Classroom Activities
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School-wide Theme
2011 - 2012
Building the Future…WES
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Reading
A Balanced Literacy Approach including:
• Guided Reading• Self-Selected reading• Word Work• Writing
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Pearson Reading Street Anthology Program
• Exploration• Working
Together• Creative
Ideas
• Our Changing World
• Responsibilities• Traditions
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Language Arts• Phonics Lessons• Spelling Activities• Handwriting
Instruction• Poetry• Creative Writing *Writer’s
Notebook*
• Language Skills
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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.
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Everyday MathContent Strands
• Operations and Computation• Numeration• Patterns, Functions, and Algebra• Data and Chance• Measurement and Reference
Frames• Geometry
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ScienceSTC Program
(Science and Technology for Children)
Topics of Study• Soils• Changes in Matter• Nutrition Exploration
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Social Studies• Communities - Past and
Present• Weekly Reader • Current Events• Map Skills• Multicultural Time
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Health
Here’s Looking at You, 2000• Drug and Alcohol Awareness• Self-Concept• Coping Strategies• Infectious Diseases and Germs• Yoga
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Technology
• Basic Computer Awareness
• Weekly use of Tech. Center
• Simple Word Processing
• Teacher Directed Research on Approved District Sites
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Field Trips
• Tyler Arboretum• Wallingford Nursing
Home• Colonial Plantation• Nutrition Field Trip• Play at Upper Darby
Performing Arts
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F.Y.I.
• Label Items • Snack• Special Classroom Activities• Absence and Change in Dismissal
Notes• Return forms ASAP• Homeroom Parents
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• I’m looking forward to a great school year with your children.
Thank you for your help and support throughout the coming
months!