**Families have the opportunity order from the Scholastic Book Clubs each month. The first book orders are due by Wednesday, September 23.
Parents can pay for book orders three ways:
1) Write one check made out to Scholastic for the exact amount .
2) Send the exact cash in a sealed baggie or envelope.
Class User Name: millergrade2
Password: Order
(This option is available until after 6:00 the afternoon of 9/23)
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December 2009- Curriculum Notes
Religion:
It's the season of Advent! Each week second grade will study the Sunday Gospel very carefully while learning about this special season of the church year.
Language Arts: We're using Scott Foresman Reading Street this year.
Math: We are working on how to interpret graphs, Money and Time.
Objectives for the First Quarter:
Number Sense and Operations Skills:
Skip count by 2, 5, 10
Compare and order numbers
Use and understand verbal ordinal terms
Estimation to 100 then verify with count
Commutative and Additive property of zero
1 digit addition and subtraction
Fluency with addition and subtraction facts to 18
Algebra Skills
Identify the addition pattern in a given sequence
Use >.<. and = to represent number order to 50
Basic “word” problems with addition
Measurement – Skill: time to the nearest hour
Statistics - Skill – compare and interpret data about themselves and their surroundings
Science:
We're learning about the Properties of Matter.
Basic geography skills are being introduced. Students are learning about the three basic types of communities: rural, suburban and urban (city).
Technology Class:Second grade will join Miss Miller and Mrs. Sica in the Computer Lab once weekly. Visit our Wild Things page to see the wild things we created with Microsoft Paint.
This year students will access Education City in both the classroom and the computer lab.
You answer vocabulary or math questions and earn FREE RICE for the hungry while exercising your brain! Try it today!
Special Projects:
This year Second grade will be involved with some special projects connecting classrooms together. You may visit the links below for more information.
September: We'll begin a year-long international project, A Room With A View. Twelve elementary classrooms will exchange photographs of our schools and share academic and seasonal information. Our travel buddy projects will also begin in September; this year one stuffed animal will travel to 7 USA classrooms while another stuffed animal will spend the year with Mrs. Parfect's class in Scotland. Her bears will be with us!
October: Second grade will mail out our postcards to the other USA schools in our postcard exchange; we'll keep track of the cards we receive. Throughout the year Miss Miller will also share international postcards that she receives through Postcrossings. We will learn about Tongue Twisters and write our own for the Tongue Twister Exchange I've arranged. At the end of the exchange we should have enough tongue twisters to create an alphabet book of Tongue Twisters.
