School Closure
Hello parents, with the recent school closure until the 15th of April, I wanted to provide you with some things that you can do with your child at home to help keep a routine and maintain their academics. I'm going to try and break this down by subject area for you.
As a reminder we are having a spring break challenge for iReady. Student who complete 5 iReady Reading lessons and complete them with an 80% passing rate AND complete 5 iReady Math lessons and complete them with an 80% passing rate will win a free Kona Ice from Dr. Helton. If we have 100% participation from our class and everyone completes this challenge, I'll throw in an additional prize for the class. Remember that iReady can only be accessed through launchpad. To get to launchpad, visit www.launchpad.ocps.net once here your child will login with their login number and password (almost all of them have this memorized as we use it at school, if your child doesn't know, it should be in the front of their binder, if not, please message me).
As a reminder we are having a spring break challenge for iReady. Student who complete 5 iReady Reading lessons and complete them with an 80% passing rate AND complete 5 iReady Math lessons and complete them with an 80% passing rate will win a free Kona Ice from Dr. Helton. If we have 100% participation from our class and everyone completes this challenge, I'll throw in an additional prize for the class. Remember that iReady can only be accessed through launchpad. To get to launchpad, visit www.launchpad.ocps.net once here your child will login with their login number and password (almost all of them have this memorized as we use it at school, if your child doesn't know, it should be in the front of their binder, if not, please message me).
Nightly Readings and Facebook Lives Information
Germs/hand sanitizers
If your kids have questions about germs or this new corona virus, here's a few videos that may help
1) How do germs get in your body? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/germs?code=e6a6a181e835354f8c7b2dffec020893#slide-id-8055
2) How do hand santizers kill germs? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/germs-sanitizer?code=d1220d5754c6fab7c9de53d6654f41d6
1) How do germs get in your body? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/germs?code=e6a6a181e835354f8c7b2dffec020893#slide-id-8055
2) How do hand santizers kill germs? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/germs-sanitizer?code=d1220d5754c6fab7c9de53d6654f41d6
General or mixed review
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To do research on a multitude of topics use the website pebblego, which is made for k-3 students. Click on the website https://www.pebblego.com/ the login information is as follows: Username: engaged, Password: learning
Reading
Scholastic is offering a FREE online learning activity. You will need to sign up for a free account in order to access materials, but it is at no cost to you. There is an activity to do each day as well as a paired fiction and non-fiction story to read. You can access second grade materials here https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-1-2.html
The website Fluency and Fitness is usually a paid site but they are offering a free 21 day subscription, They have lessons that go with sight words, phonics, reading and math. Interspersed with activities are fitness breaks to get students up and moving and exercising. The link to this website and free trial is here https://fluencyandfitness.com/register/school-closures/?fbclid=IwAR1XNiqr_IwlxbiMYKzQLnXErGokX912K-LZI14KA7oCpCdnRVYcvO1xxcA
Below you will also find some files to download. These are close reading passages there is both informational and fiction close reads. Each close read practices several of the standards that students will need to know and practice. For the summarizing piece of each text, it should be a few sentences. The first file under here is a Retell mat that your child can use to help them retell what they just read.
The website Fluency and Fitness is usually a paid site but they are offering a free 21 day subscription, They have lessons that go with sight words, phonics, reading and math. Interspersed with activities are fitness breaks to get students up and moving and exercising. The link to this website and free trial is here https://fluencyandfitness.com/register/school-closures/?fbclid=IwAR1XNiqr_IwlxbiMYKzQLnXErGokX912K-LZI14KA7oCpCdnRVYcvO1xxcA
Below you will also find some files to download. These are close reading passages there is both informational and fiction close reads. Each close read practices several of the standards that students will need to know and practice. For the summarizing piece of each text, it should be a few sentences. The first file under here is a Retell mat that your child can use to help them retell what they just read.
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Standards covered: compare and contrast two texts, ask and answer questions, characters response to a problem, central message (moral/lesson), summarizing
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Standards covered: Central message (moral/lesson of story), summarizing, ask and answer questions, characters response to a problem
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Standards Covered: Point of view, summarizing, asking and answering questions, story structure
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Standards Covered: How characters respond to events in the story, summarizing, story structure, point of view
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Standards covered: Asking and answering questions, summarizing, main topic, context clues, authors purpose
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Standards covered: text features, summarizing, asking and answering questions, main topic, authors purpose
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Standards covered: Authors point and reasons, main topic, summarizing, asking and answering questions, context clues, author's purpose
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Standards covered: Images clarify text, summarizing, asking and answering questions, main topic, context clues, authors purpose
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Writing
In writing this year we have worked on both narrative and explanatory pieces. Have students practice these types over break. Here are some writing prompts you can use to have your child practice at home. Plus a fun challenge you can do with the whole family.
Fun Challenge: How to writing. Have your child write you instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then try to make the sandwich using their instructions. Similar to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct-lOOUqmyY You could also do the same thing but with s'mores too!
Fun challenge 2: Go to the switcheroozoo site, create a mixed up animal, name your new animal and then write an All About _____(name of animal) book to tell us about the new animal you created. Where does this animal live? What is it's habitat? What does it eat? Does it have any predators? Is your animal nocturnal or is it awake during the day? What does it do during the day? Sleep? Play? Tell us all the details! Use this website to create your animal https://switchzoo.com/zoo.htm
When writing students should be able to write an introduction that grabs a readers attention, a body and a conclusion that ends their writing. They should also be able to edit and revise their writing when finished. For narrative writing the body should include the problem and how the problem got solved, as well as thoughts and feelings about the topic and details that help paint a picture in the readers mind. For explanatory writing the body should either have facts with details to support it or steps with details to further explain the steps.
Narrative Prompts:
1) Write a personal narrative about your favorite vacation
2) Write a story about a giant that lives in the forest
3) Write about a small moment about a birthday party
4) write about a small moment when something funny happened
5) Write a personal narrative about a memory with a family member
6) Write a fictional narrative about underwater friends
7) Write a fictional narrative about a troll and a castle
8) Write a fictional narrative of your choice
Explanatory Prompts:
1) Write a how to piece on making a pizza
2) write a how to piece on making cookies
3) write an all about piece about your favorite sport
4) Write an all about piece about a topic you are passionate about
5) Write a how to piece about how to draw something
6) Write an all about piece about a famous person
Fun Challenge: How to writing. Have your child write you instructions for how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then try to make the sandwich using their instructions. Similar to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct-lOOUqmyY You could also do the same thing but with s'mores too!
Fun challenge 2: Go to the switcheroozoo site, create a mixed up animal, name your new animal and then write an All About _____(name of animal) book to tell us about the new animal you created. Where does this animal live? What is it's habitat? What does it eat? Does it have any predators? Is your animal nocturnal or is it awake during the day? What does it do during the day? Sleep? Play? Tell us all the details! Use this website to create your animal https://switchzoo.com/zoo.htm
When writing students should be able to write an introduction that grabs a readers attention, a body and a conclusion that ends their writing. They should also be able to edit and revise their writing when finished. For narrative writing the body should include the problem and how the problem got solved, as well as thoughts and feelings about the topic and details that help paint a picture in the readers mind. For explanatory writing the body should either have facts with details to support it or steps with details to further explain the steps.
Narrative Prompts:
1) Write a personal narrative about your favorite vacation
2) Write a story about a giant that lives in the forest
3) Write about a small moment about a birthday party
4) write about a small moment when something funny happened
5) Write a personal narrative about a memory with a family member
6) Write a fictional narrative about underwater friends
7) Write a fictional narrative about a troll and a castle
8) Write a fictional narrative of your choice
Explanatory Prompts:
1) Write a how to piece on making a pizza
2) write a how to piece on making cookies
3) write an all about piece about your favorite sport
4) Write an all about piece about a topic you are passionate about
5) Write a how to piece about how to draw something
6) Write an all about piece about a famous person
Grammar
Our next unit in grammar is all about prefixes and root words. We will specifically be focusing on the following prefixes and what they mean dis-, sub-, anti-, mis-, non-, pre-, re-, im- and un-
Here's a video to help with prefixes, this video introduces prefixes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbT1PlZS0io
Here's a fun song about prefixes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4y1hHftJQ
The activity below includes both prefixes and suffixes but you do not need to do the suffixes, we won't be doing suffixes this year.
Here's a video to help with prefixes, this video introduces prefixes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbT1PlZS0io
Here's a fun song about prefixes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4y1hHftJQ
The activity below includes both prefixes and suffixes but you do not need to do the suffixes, we won't be doing suffixes this year.
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Math
I've included some review practice on skills we have already learned including addition and subtraction and word problems. I am also including some materials about our new upcoming unit on money.
Money Unit:
For money students should be able to recognize the different coins and count them. To help them practice, have them skip count by 1's, 5's, 10's, and 25. Take it outside and make it fun, use sidewalk chalk to draw hopscotch or a ladder and as your child jumps through it, have them skip count. Or draw a bunch of circles in your driveway and inside each circle write different numbers and then have your child find their way through the driveway by skip counting. Students should also be able to show different ways to make a specific amount using different coins. For examples if you said 48 cents, your child should be able to come up with at least two different ways that they could make 48 cents using different combinations of coins.
Here's some money video's you can watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajLkveG750
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpcZ5obmsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbtmucV-U2c
Review of past skills:
Below you will find downloads available for addition and subtraction, but with and without regrouping, as well as word problem practice.
Money Unit:
For money students should be able to recognize the different coins and count them. To help them practice, have them skip count by 1's, 5's, 10's, and 25. Take it outside and make it fun, use sidewalk chalk to draw hopscotch or a ladder and as your child jumps through it, have them skip count. Or draw a bunch of circles in your driveway and inside each circle write different numbers and then have your child find their way through the driveway by skip counting. Students should also be able to show different ways to make a specific amount using different coins. For examples if you said 48 cents, your child should be able to come up with at least two different ways that they could make 48 cents using different combinations of coins.
Here's some money video's you can watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajLkveG750
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpcZ5obmsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbtmucV-U2c
Review of past skills:
Below you will find downloads available for addition and subtraction, but with and without regrouping, as well as word problem practice.
Money Practice
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Review Practice
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Science
This is all about animals and sorting them by their traits. This will be a good intro activity to our next unit on animal and plant life cycles. https://mysteryscience.com/biodiversity/mystery-1/biodiversity-classification/174?code=NDEwMDY3MDQ&t=student
This is a good review of a previous unit on rocks, sand and erosion. It's called Why is their sand at the beach? https://mysteryscience.com/water/mystery-2/rocks-sand-erosion/113?code=NDEwMDY3MDQ&t=student
A list of fun science experiments/STEM projects that you can do at home https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/
This is a good review of a previous unit on rocks, sand and erosion. It's called Why is their sand at the beach? https://mysteryscience.com/water/mystery-2/rocks-sand-erosion/113?code=NDEwMDY3MDQ&t=student
A list of fun science experiments/STEM projects that you can do at home https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/
Social Studies
For social studies, you can access Social Studies Weekly by logging into launchpad by visiting launchpad.ocps.net and having your child login. Once you do this, find the icon that says Digital Backpack App, once there, click on the red button that says Studies Weekly. Once inside, you will click on second grade. We will be doing some of these in class but you can preview them before class. I recommend looking at weeks 30 and 31. Read together, answer the sample questions and underneath, if you click on worksheets, there are several worksheets that go with the week. If you do not see these on your end, please let me know and I will download them and attach the files here.
Technology
use Code.org to try different coding activities https://code.org/learn
STEM Projects
Can you build a house out of paper? https://mysteryscience.com/materials/mystery-5/materials-properties-engineering/262?code=NDEwMDY3MDQ&t=student
For the STEM Bubbles, it's a fun way to play and explore with bubbles, it does have ingredients you will need to buy but I have done with the STEM without distilled water and without glycerin and it still worked great (this way you don't need to go out to stores) you can also use different objects that you already have around your house. It will challenge students to make a bubble wand of their own. We will do this at the end of the year too (time permitting) but with the nice weather, I thought this would be a fun thing to do outside :)
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Here are some fun at home STEM projects you could use
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Fun learning videos/activities
Are Unicorns Real? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/unicorns?code=1c33391421483694d6ab186c19eaca37
How is glass made? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/glass?code=33f1b0e20720f4d0fc492b70c6062503#slide-id-5489
Why is the ocean salty? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/ocean-salt?code=cd7bda92c6bdf987cb3cda713ae69751#slide-id-5652
How are toys invented? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/toys?code=540c86c0227ff651b8f0fcbf4cbac021#slide-id-7715
How is glass made? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/glass?code=33f1b0e20720f4d0fc492b70c6062503#slide-id-5489
Why is the ocean salty? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/ocean-salt?code=cd7bda92c6bdf987cb3cda713ae69751#slide-id-5652
How are toys invented? https://mysteryscience.com/mini-lessons/toys?code=540c86c0227ff651b8f0fcbf4cbac021#slide-id-7715
First Week of School
The first week of school we will be working on building our classroom community by learning about our classmates. We will also be learning about our classroom and school rules. We will be learning about the tools that mathematicians use and learning about growth mindset.
What is growth mindset you might ask? We will be introducing students to growth mindset through a great book called Bubble Gum Brain. The idea of growth mindset is that our brain is always growing and stretching, that all things are possible. It's also how children face challenges and setbacks. Kids with a growth mindset believe their abilities can improve over time. By comparison, kids with a fixed mindset think that their abilities are a set trait that can't change, no matter how hard they try.
What is growth mindset you might ask? We will be introducing students to growth mindset through a great book called Bubble Gum Brain. The idea of growth mindset is that our brain is always growing and stretching, that all things are possible. It's also how children face challenges and setbacks. Kids with a growth mindset believe their abilities can improve over time. By comparison, kids with a fixed mindset think that their abilities are a set trait that can't change, no matter how hard they try.