Welcome to Second Grade Back to School Night!

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Welcome to Second Grade Back to School Night!
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Literacy
Balanced and Integrated Literacy Curriculum Using
the Readers and Writers Workshop Models
Mini lesson ?
Guided reading Independent practice ? Conferences
Share/Wrap up ?
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What is Fundations?

• Research based program
• Multi-sensory (auditory, visual and kinesthetic)
  approach to instruction
• Word Work consists of Phonological/Phonemic
  Awareness, Phonics and Structural Analysis

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Implementation of Fundations
Each 30 Minute Lesson Includes

• Phonological/Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and
  Structural Analysis (Word Work)
• Handwriting
• Spelling
• High frequency words (reading and spelling)
• Fluency
• Vocabulary

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What Literacy Looks Like in Our Classroom

• Children explore the following reading genres
• Informational (non-fiction) texts
• Picture books
• Author Study
• Realistic Fiction
• Biography
• Poetry
• Mystery

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• Children explore the following process writing
  genres
• Expository
• Personal Narrative
• Fictional Narrative
• Poetry
• Biography
• Persuasive
• Student performances in reading and writing are
  integrated. For example, when children are
  reading within the genre of poetry they are also
  writing poetry.

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Mathematics

• Everyday Mathematics
• Spiral curriculum accesses prior knowledge and
  builds bridges
• for future learning
• Conceptual understanding
• Hands-on Learning
• Guided Mathematics Model

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Mathematics

• Math Games
• First In Math
• Continuous Assessment
• Partnership between Home and School
• Exemplars
• Problem Solving for Everyday Situations

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Social Studies

• Communities and Weston
• Types of communities
• Members of communities
• How communities form and change
• Maps and landforms
• Community Agents of Change Around the Globe
• Community leaders and change
• The environment
• Responsibilities of citizens
• Agents of change research project

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Social Studies

• Grade two social studies involves
• The examination of continuity, change,
  community, social responsibility and cultural
  universals.
• The study of Weston as a community how it has
  changed and how it relates to other communities
  throughout the state, country and world.
• Students engage in these learning experiences so
  that they can become educated, informed citizens
  who are empowered and predisposed to act as
  agents of change.

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Science

• What is explored
• Solids, Liquids, Gases
• Soil
• New Plants

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• How it is explored
• Inquiry
• Examining and investigating a question
• Science notebooks
• Recording thinking
• Cooperative learning
• Science lab
• Literature

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Odds and Ends

• Security
• Buzzer System
• Sign In
• Lunch Accounts
• Drop Off and Pick Up
• Afterschool Programs

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Thank you for coming!