2nd Grade Units
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Daily 5Soon your child will be talking about “The Daily Five” at home. The Daily Five is a literacy structure that teaches indepen-dence and gives children the skills needed to create a lifetime love of reading and writing. It consists of five tasks that are introduced individually. When introduced to each task, the children discuss what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to engage in the task independently.
Ask your child about Daily Five and see what he/she has to say. You may hear about class stamina, how we are working towards independence, and maybe about some of the fantastic things your child has written, read, or listened to during our structured reading time. |
MathWe will be using the Bridges in Mathematics program this year. Please visit the Parent Support Site for a wealth of information. You can find resources, a FAQ section, and detailed curriculum scope and sequence for the entire year.
Second grade math standards include the following: 1. Operations and Algebraic Thinking -Focus on addition, subtraction, patterns, skip counting, and foundations of multiplication 2. Number and Operations in Base Ten -Focus on place value and adding/subtracting within 1,000 3. Measurement and Data -Focus on length, time, and money 4. Geometry -Focus on two dimensional shapes and the foundations of area and fraction models |
Literacy
We will be using a program called Orton-Gillingham for our literacy instruction this year. This is a research based, systematic, explicit, multi-sensory, code-based approach to decoding and spelling instruction. The most noticeable change will be in the way we assess spelling. Under this program, the focus is on learning and applying specific spelling/phonetic patterns, rather than memorizing a weekly list of words. Therefore, the only words we will send home will be the week's "Red" words, which will be a set of high frequency words that do not go along with the week's phonetic focus skill. The spelling test at the end of the week will be composed of words that follow the pattern practiced in class that week.
Writing:
Lucy Caulkins Writing has come to CHVE!
Here is the “Reader’s Digest” version of our new writing program. Lucy Caulkins is a very well known, teacher, writer, and researcher extraordinaire. We have looked to Lucy for writing guidance for decades and now we are going to formally implement her latest program. Here is a rundown of what writing will look like in second grade…
1. Improving Narrative Writing The kids will learn how to create narratives by stretching out small moments. Our first grade team has used this program in the past so your kids already know how to write “small moments”.
2. Improving Informational Writing The kids use nonfiction texts to help design and write about experiments and other scientific information. This portion of our lessons will be taught using science notebooks.
3. Improving Opinion Writing The kids will work on “close reading” and gather evidence from texts to craft persuasive arguments. They will also do a lot of responding to text in their interactive journals.
The kids will explore various forms of poetry. They will learn about how figures of speech make their writing clear and powerful.
High Frequency/Sight Words
Once your child is able to read these words without sounding them out,
they should work on spelling the words correctly. (Tip: copy and paste them into www.spellingcity.com)
Please click on the link below to open the list of 2nd Grade High Frequency Words
High Frequency Words