Important Info

Ms. Worley's Wild Elephants

2016/2017

samanthaworley@fcschools.net

(919) 496-4015 ext. 304

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Important Information and Reminders

  • Enrichment schedule for the 4th 9 weeks:
    • Monday - P.E.
    • Tuesday - Literacy
    • Wednesday - Title I
    • Thursday - Art
    • Friday - Music
  • I will be sending reminders through Remind. Please sign up as soon as possible.

Text: @msworley16

Send to: 81010

  • The best time to call the classroom is between 8:20 and 8:55, during my planning. The rest of the day is instructional time and I may not be able to answer the phone. You may also send me an email. My contact information is listed at the top of the page.

Homework

Students no longer have formal written homework. The following is expected to be completed by your child each night:

  • Reading (20 minutes each night) - Your child needs to record the name of the book in their reading log (located in the back of their green folder) and a parent needs to initial next to it every day. If a student does not fill in the book title, if the book is not written on the correct date, or a parent does not initial, the reading log will be considered incomplete.
  • Math - Practice math facts
  • ELA - Review spelling words and vocabulary words from the composition notebook

 

Newsletters

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September 12th                                                                                                                               

September 19th                                                                                                                                 

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Daily Schedule

  • 7:35-8:10 - Arrival, morning work, housekeeping, announcements
  • 8:15-9:00 - Enrichment
  • 9:00-9:10 - Bathroom 
  • 9:10-11:00 - ELA/Math
  • 11:00-11:30 - Recess
  • 11:30-11:40 - Bathroom
  • 11:45-12:00 - Read aloud and writing
  • 12:10-12:35 - Lunch
  • 12:45-1:00 - Writing
  • 1:00-1:30 - Science or Social Studies
  • 1:30-1:40 - Bathroom
  • 1:45-2:30 - Interventions (classes regroup)
  • 2:30-2:45 - Switch back, pack up and dismissal

Curriculum (4th 9 Weeks)

Math

  • 2.OA.4 Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.
  • 2.G.2 Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.
  • 2.G.3 Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.

ELA

  • RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
  • RL.2.1   Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
  • RL.2.2  Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
  • RL.2.3  Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
  • RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of the story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action

Science - Structures & Functions of Living Organisms & Evolution & Genetics

  • 2.L.1.1 Summarize the life cycle of animals: birth, developing into an adult, reproducing, aging and death.
  • 2.L.2.1 Identify ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearance and ways they are different.

Social Studies - Economics and Financial Literacy

  • 2.E.1 Understand basic economic concepts.
  • 2.E.1.1 Give examples of ways in which businesses in the community meet the needs and wants of consumers.
  • 2.E.1.2 Explain the roles and impact producers and consumers have on the economy.
  • 2.E.1.3 Summarize the concept of supply and demand.
  • 2.E.1.4 Explain why people and countries around the world trade for goods and services.
  • 2.E.1.5 Explain how money is used for saving, spending, borrowing and giving.
  • 2.E.1.6 Summarize the role of financial institutions relative to savings.

4th 9 Weeks 2nd Grade ELA “I Can Statements”

 

4th 9 Weeks 2nd Grade ELA “I Can Statements”

Reading:

  1. I can use details to ask and answer: who, what, where, when, why, how.
  2. I can recount stories from diverse cultures and identify the main idea or main topic, as well as the topic of specific paragraphs within a text.
  3. I can describe characters’ response in a story.
  4. I can describe the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
  5. I can describe how words and phrases supply meaning in a story, poem, or song.
  6. I can acknowledge different characters point of view in a story.
  7. I can use all information in a story to understand character, setting, plot.
  8. I can compare/contrast two or more versions of a story.
  9. I can describe the connection between a series of events, ideas or steps in procedures.
  10. I can understand/explain why specific images are used in a text.
  11. I can use key features to find key facts or information in a text.
  12. I can identify and understand main purpose of a text.
  13. I can describe/explain how details support main idea.
  14. I can determine the meaning of words and phrased in a text relevant to grade level.
  15. I can compare/contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
  16. I can read and comprehend any text on my grade level and based on text complexity band.

Foundational Skills:

  1. I can decode words using syllables, prefixes, suffixes and vowel sounds to know and apply grade level phonics to decode words in texts.
  2. I can read fluently regularly spelled words .
  3. I can tell the difference between long and short words when reading. Regular one syllable words.
  4. I can read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension

Language:

  1. I can demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing/speaking
  2. I can demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English - capitalization, punctuation, spelling -when writing .
  3. I can use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading/listening.
  4. I can clarify and determine various strategies to understand the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words in context.
  5. I can demonstrate understanding of figurative language and word relationships.
  6. I can use acquired words and phrases to describe.     

Writing:

  1. I can write informative/explanatory texts and introduce a topic using facts/definitions.
  2. I can write narratives using adjectives and putting story in order of sequence.
  3. I can write opinion pieces on topics or texts supporting a point of view.
  4. I can edit my own writing with guidance
  5. I can use a variety of digital tools to produce my writing.
  6. I can participate in shared research and writing projects.
  7. I can recall and locate/locate information to answer  a question   


Important Links

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Resources

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