Transcript Welcome Back!

Daily Schedule
8:15 - Line up at Red Dot #50
8:20 - Tardy Bell (must be in classroom)
9:35-9:50 - Snack Recess
(Please send your child to school with a healthy snack each day!)
11:15-11:35 - Lunch
11:35 -11:55 - Lunch Recess
2:40 - Dismissal
Nutrition
All Sunrise students have been
assigned a 4 digit lunch pin number.
If you send your child to school with
lunch money please make sure it is in
an envelope labeled with the child’s
first/last name, pin number, and
teacher’s name.
Click on image to link to lunch account
This is to ensure the funds are credited in the correct account
Click on image to link to lunch menu
*Students may be eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Behavior Chart
and PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports )
Behavior Chart
+5 Excellent
+4 Good Choices
+3 Ready to Learn
+2 Warning
+1 Think About It
Student Given Reflection Sheet
+0 Parent Contact
PBIS
Step 1:
Teacher/Classroom intervention
Step 2:
Buddy Classroom for Time-Out
Step 3:
Referral to administrator
Step 4:
Administrative intervention
Behavior Log
• Filled out 2 times a day
– AM (before lunch) and PM (after lunch) performance
• All students start at +3 Ready to Learn
• Points earned are recorded by student on
behavior chart and brought home daily for parent
review (In child’s HW folder)
• Please take a moment each night to honor your
child for their good behavior or discuss any
needed improvements, this behavior log is
informational and not intended to be punitive.
Behavior Log Cont.
• Students points (pennies) are summed daily and weekly
(reinforces vertical and horizontal addition facts)
*Maximum points a student could earned per day is $0.10
*Maximum points a student could earned per week is $0.50
• Weekly combined total paid in “Critter Money”
• Students may purchase rewards with their earnings when
critter store is open
NOTE: Items will be purchase and change made using money manipulatives
• Record of Earning/Spending kept in check book
NOTE: students use money manipulatives in class to calculate
About Your Child’s Teacher
• 11 Years in Education
• Multiple Subject Credential:
– Secondary Authorizations: Math, Science, ELA, Social
Science, General Studies
– ELD Authorization
– AVID Trained
• Before becoming a 2nd grade teacher:
– Algebra Teacher, Department Chair, Site Based Math
Coach, District Grade Level Curriculum/Benchmarks
Developer, Site Based Data Director, Program Improvement
Coach, Instructional Coach, Literacy Tutor, and Primary
Grades Tutor, Adult Ed Instructor, GED teacher.
• Member of California League of Schools.
• Presenter at CLMS
• Mom of Three; 17½, 15, 12
ELA
Unit Themes
• Sharing Stories
• Kindness
• Fossils
• Courage
• Our Country and its People
CCSS Standards based instruction
• Additional Reading Support via at home Reading Logs and AR
• Additional Writing Conventions Support via Spellers Menu, Open
Court Ancillary
• Additional Vocabulary Support via Sight words practice
• Additional Writing Support via interactive journals
AR- Accelerated Reader
• Helps identify students who are struggling and
may need intervention
• reports the total number of words the student
learned, with details about the new words
and review words on which they were quizzed
• Provides feedback on which books the
students liked best
• Monitors how well students are progressing
toward their average percent correct, points,
average book level
• Shows individual student performance on
each of the 24 literacy skills split into tables
for each category of literacy skills (Initial
Understanding, Literary Analysis, Inferential
Comprehension, and Constructing Meaning)
and the six literacy skills under each category.
Click on image to link to site
Library
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Weekly visits:
Thursday: 8:55 am – 9:15 am
One book check out per visit
Please check out your local
library as well If your child is
reading more than 1 book per
week.
Math
CCSS Math Standards
Mathematical Practices
Click on image to link to online text
Procedural Fluency Supported with
– Rocket Math
– Math Mastery
– IXL
ixl.com
• An available support tool for extra practice/enrichments
• Provides immediate corrective feedback
• Build in progress monitoring and rewards system
Reading/Spelling/Math Log
and Homework Folders
Please have child complete:
– 20 minutes of reading
– 1 spelling activity
– 1 math fact activity
each day, M/T/W/Th for practice and reinforcement.
• Homework and logs will be checked daily
• Students earn stamps for completed HW and completed
logs (w/parent signature)
• Homework folders are collected on Friday.
• Students earn stickers to decorate their folders for each
week they have 100% homework completion
(Parents are welcome to donate stickers to the class)
Our Grade Level Team
• Will be working together to offer you child the
best educational opportunities.
• Will be exercising cross teacher rotations,
when track schedule allows
Science
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Grade 2 Topics:
link to online text
Life Science:
Plant and Animal Life Cycles
Click on document to link to standards
Grade 2 Science Standards
Click on document to link to standards
Earth Science:
Rocks, Fossils Natural Resources
Physical Science:
Force and Motion
Next Generation Science Standards
Social Studies
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link to online text
Big ideas:
2.1 Students differentiate between things that happened
long ago and things that happened yesterday.
2.2 Students demonstrate map skills by describing the
absolute and relative locations of people, places, and
environments.
2.3 Students explain governmental institutions and
practices in the United States and other countries.
2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and
their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate
basic economic reasoning skills.
2.5 Students understand the importance of individual
action and character and explain how heroes from long
ago and the recent past have made a difference in
others' lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln,
Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver,
Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie
Robinson, Sally Ride).
Click on image to link to standards
Computers
Mondays 11:55-12:45 (50 Minutes)
Teacher: Mr. Klink
– Computer Science Curriculum
– AR testing support
Click on document to link to standards
ITSE (NETS)/Digital Literacy and 21st Century Learning
Skills also addressed during regular classroom
instruction.
– Web-research, Web Publishing/Blogging, e-curriclum
(AR tests, IXL Math, GO Math interactive tutorials)
Station Rotation.
P.E.
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200 Minutes per each 10 school days
Taught in-class/on blacktop/or in MP
Utilize SPARK Curriculum
In addition to Monday through Friday PE, students will
run/walk each day before recess as part of the required 100
PE minutes per week. For their safety, students are required
to wear PE appropriate shoes/attire each day.
2nd Grade MP Rotation
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Monday Flex: 8:30-9:20
Wednesday Afternoon: 1:40-2:40
Thursday Morning: 9:20-10:10
Friday Flex: 8:30-9:20 or 9:20-10:10
Click on image to link to standards
VAPA: Visual and Performing Arts
Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts
Standards meet through:
• Classroom instruction
• Grade level collaborative
projects/events,
• Field Trips
• Art Docents
*Curriculum and Training Provided
– Parent Volunteer Opportunity: Art
Docent, Chaperone
– Donation Opportunity: Craft Items
Click on image to link to standards
Donations
Books for classroom library RL 1– 4
– with a focus on 2.1-3.1
Prizes/Awards
Grade Level Letter (below)
Fieldtrips:
3 proposed
Average about $10 per child
Other Grade Level Donation Ideas
The following is a list of items that we will be using throughout the school
year in the classroom. If you would like to help in your child’s classroom,
and you are wondering what you can do, please think about donating
one of these items. All donations are greatly appreciated!
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sheet protectors
Costco gift cards (for film developing)
baby wipes
copy paper (white, pink, green, yellow, and purple)
box of utensils (Costco)
hot beverage paper cups
paper plates
healthy classroom snacks (goldfish, pretzels, fruit snacks, etc.)
mailing labels Avery 8660 &Avery 8463
disinfectant wipes
Parent Teacher Communication
Email Is BEST!: [email protected]
Voicemail is available when on track: 916-985-4350 x237
– Off track leave message with front office
*Note: Extension will change with room rotations
Monday Conferences/Individual Communication available:
8/4 beginning at 2:55
9/1 beginning at 2:55
8/22 : Deficiency Notices
9/19 : Grading Period Ends
9/26 : Grade Reports Sent Home
*I will be sending reports earlier in the week so that you may contact me
with any questions or concerns before we go off track.
Other:
Volunteers
• Helping Hands Website
Classroom Web/Blog
• Coming Soon!
Scholastic Book Orders
• Interest? Frequency?
Pictures and video documenting your child’s learning and second
grade experience will be taken throughout the year
– Parent Volunteer Opportunity: Photography, Assembling Photo
Journals, and End of Year Memory Book.
– Donation Opportunity: Walgreen’s gift card for film developing,
Large Construction Paper
Sunrise Elementary Picture Day
– Tracks A & D – Friday, August 22nd