*Star of the Week / Guest Reader

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Star of the Week / Guest Reader
Orange Homework folders M-TH only Please
complete Reading Log Ways to go homegoing
well Daily Snack and water bottles
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Meet the Teacher

• ---Taught Pre-Kdg. and Kindergarten for 5 years.
• ---Continued to teach all other grades from
  1st-5th.
• ---Reading Specialist for 5 years
• ---This is my 31st year of teaching eleventh
  year in Cobb County, 7th year at Due West.
• ---I enjoy spending time with my three teenagers
  Alex 19, Nikolai 16, and Savannah soon to be 13.
• ---Favorite past time, reading and being outdoors
  in the sun by any body of water.

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715-745 745-755 755-815 815-930 930-940
940-1018 1020-1040 1046-1116 1120-1130 11
30-1215 1215-100 100-140 140-210 210-215
Morning Work-Language Arts/Math A.R.
testing Announcements Complete/ correct morning
work Math-Number Talks-Problem Solving Snack/
Restroom/ Shared Reading Science/Social
Studies/Health RECESS Lunch Read
Aloud Specials Centers-T/FR P.E. Readers
Workshop/ Guided Reading Writers Workshop Stack,
Pack, Cleanup
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• Shared Reading modeling strategies for reading
  fluency and comprehension
• Guided Reading Small group differentiated for
  individual student needs fiction and
  non-fiction text
• Literacy Centers revisit skills in word work,
  vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension

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Accelerated Reader program Access to over
139,000 quizzes (more added weekly) Students take
quizzes at school Renaissance Home Connect for
parents to check their childs progress (see
letter in your packet) Book Finder feature lists
quizzes 2nd grade expectation of
earning 1 point per week for a total of 7
points the first grading period Point goals
will increase each 9 weeks
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Time140-210
-Students will follow a writing process of
pre-writing, drafting, revising and sometimes
publishing. -Students will share their writing
During authors chair. We will study several
authors style to help us become better writers.
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• Words Their Way workbooks
• Word Sorts for various phonemes
• Spelling words will come from sort patterns
• AND High Frequency word lists
• Weekly spelling practice sent home on Mondays
• Assessments will be Mondays and may include
  additional words from the pattern family

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Whole Group teacher instructs and models
concept Guided Math Small group with teacher
differentiated for individual student needs Work
Stations revisit skills with games and partner
practice, performance tasks Review Practice
number talks, problem solving, and math
journals
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• Integrated Units
• Matter
• Energy
• Simple Machines
• Plant Life Cycles
• Animal Life Cycles
• Celestial Motion

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• Integrated Units
• Georgia regions
• Land features
• Native Americans that
• lived in Georgia
• Biographies of famous Georgians
• (Martin Luther King Jr., Tomochichi, Mary
  Musgrove, George Oglethorpe, Jimmy Carter, Jackie
  Robinson)

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Mondays Introduction of Spelling
Patterns Tuesdays and Wednesdays Math OR
Language Arts OR Reading practice (1 page)
Thursdays RAZ-Kids, Tumblebooks-one will be
assigned H.W. should be 20-30 tops! Students
will add a sticker each day for work completion.
H.W. passes can be used when needed
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• Monday MUSIC
• Tuesday ART/P.E.
• Wednesday TECHNOLOGY
• Thursday Writing Lab
• Friday Science Lab/P.E.

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• Tennis shoes recommended for ALL specials
• Each child needs their own set of earbuds for
  STEM lab

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1. Performing Arts Trip - Cobb Ballet
2. Cobb Safety Village

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Our School-wide Behavior Program
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Learning Skills Behavior Section of Report Card
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Last Important Details

• For more curriculum information visit the CCSD
  website at www.cobbk12.org and click on the
  Common Core Info link on the left under Parent
  Info.
• PTA/Volunteer Sign-up
• Fall Conferences October 20-24
• NO Spring State Testing
• Due West Dash Saturday, October 25th

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Evaluating Student Progress
Each student will be assessed to determine
his/her progress toward mastery of the standards
in the subjects of Language Arts (Reading and
Writing), Social Studies, Technology,
Mathematics, Science, and Health.
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