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8:31 School Starts
8:36 Late Bell
8:40-8:55 Calendar Math
9:00-9:30 Literacy
9:35-10:20 Intensive Guided Reading
10:20- 11:05 Writers Workshop
11:05- 11:45 Lunch/Recess

11:50- 12:50 Math

12:50-1:05 Recess

1:05- 1:50 Social Studies/ Science
1:50- 2:30 Specials- PE, Music or Art
2:30- 3:05 Literacy
3:13 Dismissal

 
 Welcome to Second Grade!

Welcome to second grade at East Elementary School! We are excited to have your child in our classes and we are looking forward to a great year. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns throughout the year.

Behavior

We have a color card system to look for good behavior. We hope your child will work hard to stay on green!   Green - Great Day!Yellow - Lose 10 minutes of recess  Pink - Lose 10 minutes of recess  Purple - A note or phone call home  Blue - See the principal-

Reading

Everyday your child will have reading in a small group. We call this time IGR, Intensive Guided Reading. Your child will bring a book home to read each night. Please set aside a time and place for your child to read. After your child reads for at least 15 minutes, please sign their reading homework folder.

Writing

We will be writing daily in second grade and hope that you will encourage your child to practice writing at home too. Writing is a process that includes planning, a rough-draft, editing, revising and publishing. We will focus on the 6-Traits of Writing: Word Choice, Ideas and Content, Sentence Fluency, Organization, Conventions, and Voice. Students write in journals, create poetry, write to promts, write personal narrative and descriptive pieces. They construct responses to prompts and reading passages, write reports, friendly letters, create lists, take notes, and record observations.

Everyday Math

Our math instruction will build on what your child learned in first grade. We will work on addition, subtraction, fact families, story problems, geometry, place value, measurement, time, fractions, and the use of calculators. We encourage you to help your child with their math homework. We only send home math homework to review what was learned in class that day.

Science and Social Studies

In science we will be studying: Safety and Good Health Habits, Sun, Shadows, and Seasons, Dinosaurs and Fossils, Weather, and Plants. Our units in social studies include: Maps and Globes, Colonial Times, Celebrations Around the World, Pioneers and Old Littleton.

We use GLAD - Guided Language Acquisition Design, to teach and reinforce Vocabulary, Reading, and Writing,  throughout our units in Science and Social Studies. These are best practices for English speaking and ESL students.         

 
  
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The 2nd Grade Teachers

          Mrs. Smith and Miss Salzman
clsmith@lps.k12.co.us       voice mail: 303-734-3128
bsalzman@lps.k12.co.us     voice mail: 303-734-3144
 
 
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