SECOND GRADE
Welcome to Alhambra 2nd Grade
Please take a moment to look at the subject guidelines below
Accelerated Reader
Students will be taking an A/R test on all the reading stories in Reading. Students will also read library books and take the A/R test on those books that we have a test on. Students will be required to read and take several of these A/R tests each quarter. I will set goals later for each student. Students will receive a grade on the test they take at the end of each quarter. This becomes part of their reading grade. Students will receive two grades: one for reaching their goal and the other for how well they did with the comprehension questions on the tests taken.
Assignment Sheet
The assignment sheet will come home at the beginning of each week. The work they do not finish each day at school becomes homework and is due the next day. The homework folder should be used to send back the completed homework and any other notes. There will also be a Friday Folder with graded papers to review and a sheet to sign that you have seen these papers.
Daily Oral Language
Review Capitalization of the first word of a sentence
Review placement of a period at the end of a declarative sentence
Learn nouns such as mother, father, mom, dad, grandfather, grandmother, aunt, and uncle are capitalized when they are used as names. If the noun is preceded by a possessive word or by an article, it is not capitalized. Ex. Yesterday Mother went to the store. (One can substitute a name such as Janice for Mother.) I believe that his dad is at home. (One cannot substitute a name such as Fred for dad.)
Unless the antecedent of a pronoun is provided in the context, the noun is preferred over the pronoun. Ex. Melissa she ran to the corner. Should be: Melissa ran to the corner.
Comma in a series uses the comma after each item in a series for clarity
Periods and commas used at the ends of quotations are always placed inside the quotation marks.
A.M. and P.M. should be upper case rather than lower case
They will be tested over 3 Daily Oral Language sentences at the end of the week.
Library
We will start going to the library as soon as it is ready to use. Library books will be due back in one week. Your child will not be allowed to check out a new book until the one they have checked out is returned.
Math
Know the basic addition and subtraction facts up through 18
Addition and subtraction of two place numbers with no regrouping and regrouping tens to ones
Addition and subtraction of three place numbers with no regrouping and regrouping tens to hundreds
Solve story problems relating addition and subtraction with two and three step processes.
Tell time to the minute
Count quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies and work problems with money both story problems and two and three step problems.
Fractions: write a fraction to tell what part of a figure is shaded and set of objects
Geometry: Identify circles, triangles, squares, rectangles both size and shape.
Measure using the metric and customary system
Multiplication of two numbers to find the product
Reading
Reading books will come home during the week. PLEASE make sure your child brings it back to school the NEXT DAY.
Science
We have a science book in Second Grade in addition to the Mash Kits listed below
We will be doing four Mash Kits in science, they are: Good Vibrations, Main Attraction, and We Dig Dinosaurs
Social StudiesWe have a social studies book in Second Grade. The activities will be done together along with the reading of the lessons.
Spelling
Learn weekly list of 12 words
Learn alphabetical order of words
Learn to use a dictionary and be able to look up words and meanings for them
Six dictation sentences each week
They will be test on two of them.
Learn to proofread a paragraph.
Each day the child will do activities with the spelling words.
They will be tested over the weekly spelling word list at the end of the week.
Word Wall
Five words will be introduced each week. Students will be held accountable for spelling those words correctly in all writing. A list of Word Wall words will be sent home at the beginning of the year.WritingWe will begin the year by reviewing sentence structure. We will work on writing 3 sentences about one topic and learn to develop the focus of the sentences. Paragraph writing will then start the first quarter. By the end of the year students will be expected to write paragraphs with a focus, juicy details, and a good wrap up.The students will be learning cursive writing.
Learn to write a book report
Learn to write a note
Learn to write a letter
Learn to write a thank you note
Learn to write a research report
Learn to write a paragraph
Learn to write an announcement
Learn to make a sign / poster