2nd Grade

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2019 - 2020

PS 230 2nd Grade Team

  2nd Grade Teachers    
Front Row (Left to Right):  Ms. Saeed, Sra. Leon, Ms. Connuck, Ms. Sidman

Back Row (Left to Right): Mrs. Aslam, Ms. Orefice, Ms. Brooks, Ms. Harrilall    

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What is Second Grade Learning This Month?

 

Reading Workshop:

     Readers will pay close attention to characters as they read.  Students will think about how characters respond to events and challenges, along with thinking about character’s feelings throughout the turns of the text.  Through this close work on with characters, readers will “ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how” to show their understanding of the key details within the text.  Readers will practice walking in the characters' shoes, taking on the events and challenges their characters face.

Helpful Tips for Parents:

  • Ask your student to tell you about the characters in the book they are reading.  What are the characters' feelings?  Do their feelings change in the book?  If so, what made them change?
  • Listen to your child read out loud. Make sure they pause at the end of a sentence, and change their voice to match the tone of the story!    

Writing Workshop:

     In writing workshop, students will be working on informational writing.  Students will be writing about topics they know a lot of information about.  Writers will be breaking down their topics into separate sections, and writing as much as they can concerning different areas of that topic.

Helpful Tips for Parents:

  • Encourage your child to reread their writing.
  • Ask your child what they are an expert in, and know a lot about. Then, let them tell you everything they know about that topic. Discuss key words that are important to know and understand if someone were to learn about that specific topic.
  • Ask your child if they checked for capitalization at the beginning of their sentences and ended in punctuation.

Math

Math Workshop:

     We will focus on the place value of 2-digit numbers, and operating on those numbers within 100.  Students will come to see 100 as 10 tens and multiples of 100 as being made up of some number of hundreds.  They will solve a variety of types of story problems.  They will play games that involve combining amounts to get to 100 or $1.00.  They will work on fluency with addition and subtraction within 100, with a focus on using known facts and knowledge of the operation.  Students will also identify, read, and write numbers to 500, and add and subtract 10 in that range.

Helpful Tips for Parents:

  • While you are going walking with your child, count together! Try counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s.
  • Help your child learn to identify money. While you are at the store, take the coins from your pocket and have your child identify what each coin is worth.

Science:

     In January, 2nd graders will start a new unit of study: The Changes to Land Over Time. This unit focuses on the processes that change land over time. Students will develop and use models to demonstrate the effects of erosion and weathering on land.

Social Studies:

     This January we are going to continue our study of the Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands.

 Eastern Woodlands wigwam 

English as a New Language (ENL-formerly known as ESL):

     We will be working with our English Language Learners to build their reading, writing, and language skills.

Art:

     Miss Becker is warming up our winter with a unit plan on saving and caring for Feral and stray cats in the area.  As a trap neuter return certified rescuer she is proud to introduce the students to this worthy cause through collaging habitats, designing and building shelters and placing them at Jamaica Bay Marsh.

     She is also teaching the importance of thinking about elements of art using Brain Pop, laminated samples, etc.  Students are watercoloring large snowmen. 

  

Gym:

     Group Games!

     We will use a variety of team-building skills to refine and strengthen our gross motor skill abilities.

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