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Mrs. Cannon’s Second Grade Class

I hope everyone had an exciting and restful summer.

Awards for the first nine weeks of 2009-2010:

Principal’s Award – Most Respectful – Zachary Snoddy

Character Count Awards: Responsibility – Tanner Hudson, Trustworthiness – Piper Higgs

Gr-r-eat Student Awards: Riley Ary, Case Corder, KaZhanna Mastin, Libby Quick, Ben Smith

Awards for the second nine weeks of 2009-2010:

Principal’s Award – Most Improved – Audrey Freeman

Character Counts Awards: Caring - Cole Gentry, Citizenship – Elijah Fowler

Gr-reat Student Awards: Monica Ashby, Jakyus Buchanan, Kinsey Chandler, Luis Saucedo, Romello Twitty

Awards for the third nine weeks of 2009-2010:

Principal’s Award – Most Creative – Libby Quick

Character Counts Awards: Fairness – KaZhanna Mastin, Respect – Case Corder

Gr-r-eat Student Awards: Ku’Vosiay Ridley, Lucio Montes, Zachary Snoddy, Tanner Hudson, Piper Higgs

Award for the fourth nine weeks of 2009-2010:

Principal’s Award – Riley Ary

Character Counts Awards: Trustworthiness – Kinsey Chandler, Caring – Ben Smith

Gr-r-eat Student Awards: Nicholas Pamplin, Audrey Freeman, Elijah Fowler, Cole Gentry

I am looking forward to seeing who our upcoming award winners will be for this 2010-2011 school year!

Thank you for your help and support!

Topics of Study:

Reading

Each week: Vocabulary, Vocabulary Strategy, Story Comprehension, Story Elements, Sequence of Events, Making Predictions, Drawing Conclusions, Summarizing, Making Generalizations, Making Inferences, Cause and Effect, Problems and Solutions, Reading Fluency, Punctuation, ABC Order

Phonics

Each Week: Picture-text Match, Words in Context, Phonemic Awareness, Writing Skills: Titles, Topic Sentences, Supporting Details; Spelling Skills, Reading Skills, Reading Fluency Skills

Spelling

Every Week - Sorting Words, Word Meanings, Writing Skills: Proofreading, Titles, Topic Sentences, Supporting Details

(Spelling Test Every Friday)

Each Week – ABC Order Every Monday Night, Sentences Every Tuesday Night, Words Three Times Each Every Thursday Night.

Math –

Each Week: Visual Thinking, Logical Reasoning, Problem Solving Skills and Strategies, Vocabulary, Technology

Grammar

Sentence Structure, Statements, Commands, Questions, Exclamations, Capitalization, Capitalization of Titles, Punctuation

Each Week: Glossaries, Dictionaries (Guide Words, Pronunciation Keys, Parts of Speech, Example Sentences), Paragraphs (Creating Titles, Writing Titles Correctly, Indenting Paragraphs, Creating Topic Sentences, Main Idea, Generalizations, Creating Supporting Details, Sticking to a Topic Sentence), Time Order Words, Sentence Beginnings and Endings, Sentence Structure, Word Order in Sentences, Making Complete Sentences, Subject/Verb Agreement, Subjects, Predicates, Sentence Order in Paragraphs, Story (beginning, middle, and end), Combining Sentences, Nouns, Pronouns, Adverbs, and Antecedents

Social Studies

Each Week: Vocabulary, Making and Reading Diagrams, Making and Reading Charts, Making and Using Map Grids, Graphs (Pictographs, Line Graphs, Bar Graphs), Maps and Globes (map key, map symbols, compass rose, directions) Learning from Picture Text

Science

Each Week: Vocabulary, Unit of Study

The “Daily Work Packet” (packet of the day’s work) - must be checked every night!!!!!!!!!!! Parents will not tear pages out of the packet or off of the packet. Parents check each page, make sure all items have been completed or corrected, and sign the top page. Children lose a ticket or one minute of free time for every item not corrected in the packet. Time is given at school to make corrections. We feel correcting mistakes is very important. We all learn from our mistakes. We need to know if a mistake is a careless one or a skill that needs further attention. I ALSO WANT PARENTS TO GET A DAILY REPORT OF THEIR CHILD’S PROGRESS.

Accelerated Reader/Reading Renaissance – Please See Link

Mrs. Cannon’s Second Grade Thoughts:

Birthday parties are held the second Thursday of each month at 2:00 in the cafeteria.

When your child is absent, please pick up work after 2:00 to assure that you get as much of the day’s work as possible. It is difficult to know how much material will be covered early in the day. This also helps to not disturb class.

Please let me know if your child will be checking out of school early. This will help me have work together and have the child in the office promptly for checkout.

Please write notes about why your child was absent on a piece of paper. If it is written in the agenda, I can’t turn it in to the office. These notes must be on file to be an excused absence. Thank you.

Please send a note if your child will be going home any other way other than what is posted on my dismissal board or is documented in the office. We can not take a child’s word on a dismissal changes.

Parents will not tear anything out of or off of the “Daily Work Packet” – even news letters and notes. Necessary things will be torn out by the teacher and sent home after it has been seen/signed by an adult. You may request a copy of a page.

Please hold in mind that students at Ralph Askins should not be riding in the front seat of a car. Children must be 12 years old to ride in the front seat of a car. Second graders must load cars on the driver’s side of vehicles due to our loading procedures. Children may not walk around a car to load. This rule is for safety. This is school policy.

Car Riders – Parents must keep the child’s name card in the car window all year.

Fact – Second graders require 10 hours sleep.

School Board Policy States - Shirts/tops must have sleeves – No spaghetti straps or tank tops. This is not just a Ralph Askins Policy. It is School Board Policy. Teachers and office staff have been asked to strictly enforce this. We are to call parents to bring t-shirts or to come pick up students if the dress-code is not followed.

Clear or mesh backpacks must be kept all year. You might want to buy more than one at the beginning of the year. They tend to be hard to find as the year progresses.

News letters are a copy of my web page. My web page is updated each Wednesday and Thursday.

Skills for Second Graders:

Phonics: Prefixes, Suffixes, Base Words/Root Words, Blends, Diagraphs, Diphthongs, Short Vowel Sounds, Long Vowel Sounds, Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Homophones, Reading Skills, Writing skills, Spelling Skills, Computer Skills
Spelling – Alphabetical Order, Exploring Letter Patterns, Proofreading and Writing, Words with Silent Letters, Words with
–er, Words with Short Vowel Sounds, Words with Long Vowel Sounds, Words from Math, Words with -oo, Words with Soft –c and –g, Words with Hard –c and –g, Words from Science, Words with –c, -k, -ck, Words with Blends, Words from Social Studies, Words with Double Consonants, Words with Diagraphs –sh, -th, -wh, and –ch
Reading – Multiple-Meaning Words, Long Vowel Sounds, Short Vowel Sounds, Diagraphs, Blends, Inflectional Endings, Using a Calendar, Suffixes, Prefixes, Base Words/Root Words, Soft –c and -g, Hard –c and -g, Silent Letters, Compound Words; Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms; Homophones, Parts of a Letter, Envelopes, Parts of a Book, Vocabulary, Story Elements, Story Comprehension, Main Idea, Sequence of Events, Summarizing, Drawing Conclusions, Making Predictions, Making Inferences, Forming Generalizations, Problems and Solutions, Figurative Language, Following Directions, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Fantasy and Reality, Topic Sentences, Supporting Details, Indenting Paragraphs, Context Clues, Words in Context, Library Skills, Use of Encyclopedias, Use of a Dictionary, Use of a Glossary, Use of an Index, Choosing a Reference Source, Subject Searches, Authors, News Letters and Ads, Reading Graphs and Charts, Using Maps, Use of the Internet, Computer Skills
Math – Time and Elapsed Time, Money, Adding and Subtracting Money, Using the Fewest Coins, Comparing Coins, Making Change, Practice Math Facts 1’s – 10’s, Math Fact Families, Missing Addends, Relating Addition to Subtraction, Number Sentences, Names of Numbers, Standard Forms of Numbers, Expanded Forms of Numbers, Word Forms of Numbers, Estimating Sums and Differences, Rounding Numbers, Days of the Week, Weeks, Sequencing Months, Years, Dates on a Calendar; Tally Tables, Graphs, and Charts; Pictographs, Bar Graphs, Pie Graphs, Venn Diagrams, 2 and 3-Digit Addition and Subtraction without regrouping, 2 and 3-Digit Addition and Subtraction with Regrouping, Vocabulary, Problem Solving Strategies, Skills, and Practice, 1 and 2-step word problems with Addition and Subtraction, Adding Tens, Subtracting Tens, Estimating Sums and Differences, Less Than and Greater Than, Choosing the Correct Operation, Multiplication and Division Concepts, Technology
Language – Letter Writing and Parts of a Letter, Letter Punctuation, Envelopes, Identifying a Complete Sentence; Statements, Questions, Commands, and Exclamations; Sentence Punctuation, Sentence Structure, Subjects of Sentences, Predicates of Sentences, Combining Sentences, Commas in a Series, Quotation Marks, Grammar Mechanics, Paragraphs, Main Idea and Supporting Details, Logical Order, Summarizing, Writing Book Titles, Parts of a Book, Book Reviews, Writing Story Titles, Writing Stories, Time-Order Words, Descriptive Writing, Humorous Writing, Biographies, Autobiographies, Dictionary Skills, Calendar Skills, Days, Months, Holidays, Dates, Vocabulary, Alphabetical Order, Compound Words, Contractions, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Synonyms, Antonyms, Possessive Nouns and Pronouns, Abbreviations
Science:
A. Living Things Grow and Change
B. Homes for Living Things
C. Exploring Earth’s Surface
D. Space and Weather
E. Exploring Matter
F. Energy in Motion
Social Studies:

1. We Belong to Many Groups: Together at School, Neighborhoods, Cities, States, Our Country, Making Social Studies Real

2. Where We Live: Communities, Life in Different Places, Using the Land, Where Does Food Come From?
3. We all Work Together: Community Service, People Make Goods, Goods Near and Far, Makers, Users, Buyers, Sellers
4. People Make History: American Indians, Remembering the Past, Communities Grow and Change
5. Being a Good Citizen: Proud Americans, Our Countries Government, Community Government, Our Freedoms, Voting
6. People in Time and Place: People on the Move, A World of People, A Family History, Community Celebration

A.R./Accelerated Reading – Home Reading - An Accelerated Reader (A.R.) test must be taken three times a week. All A.R. books have been given a point value. Students should read ½ (0.5) point Accelerated Reader (A.R.) books three times. A test on an A.R. book is taken on the computer. Two A.R. goals must be met each nine weeks. Children must reach a level goal, and an average percent correct goal (85%). The average percent correct on A.R. tests must stay above an 85%. An 85% accuracy is required to meet the accuracy goal at the end of each nine weeks. Children can not move to a new level of A.R. book if their average percent correct is below 85%. Therefore, having an average percent correct below 85% makes it difficult to reach the A.R. book level goal for the nine weeks. All books and test scores are logged. All ½ or 0.5 point books must be read three times. Reading the A.R. book three times is homework every night. I do give time for A.R. books to be read at school. My hope is that the book will be read at least twice at school, so it only has to be read once at home. Children are not allowed to test on a 0.5 book unless it has been read 3 times. I do give a ticket for every 10 minutes over the required 15 minutes of home reading. Children are given two nights to read a 1 point book. Only ½ point books are read three times. Please refer to the Accelerated Reader link at the bottom of the page for more information.

Please, please, please work on telling time and money all year. Concentrate on elapsed time and making change.

The lunch menu can be found on the school’s web page and in the Elk Valley Times.

Lunch money is dropped off in the cafeteria before school. It should be put in an envelope labeled with: name, teacher’s name, and amount. Second graders are not given a copy of the lunch menu.

Required – Five No. 2 pencils at all times (no decorative pencils – They don’t sharpen well)

Second grade handwriting paper (must be purchased in the school bookstore) $1.25

Pencil toppers/erasers (no decorative pencil topper erasers) no big erasers

Wish List – big and small envelopes

Ziploc baggies (sandwich or gallon)

Kleenex

Waterless hand sanitizer

Mrs. Cannon’s Yearly Schedule:

Daily - parents will sign or initial two times:

1. The Stapled, Daily Work Packet – after checking each page to see that every item has been complete and corrected.

2. The Agenda/Assignment Book – after checking spelling words, homework assignments, and notes.

Notes are to be written on the top page of the daily packet verifying extra study time on math facts, money, telling time, or extra reading with an adult. I give a ticket for every 10 minutes of extra study time. I love to give tickets. I do not give tickets for time spent on homework assignments. Please be specific about what was studied when writing a note. I even want to know if books are read that are not school books or A.R. books.

Please do not tear anything out of the daily packet. This includes news letters. I must know that parents see all items. Packets are returned at the end of each nine-week period. I will return some things the very next day (field trip information, news letters, etc.), when needed.

Homework Schedule: Subject to Change

Monday – A.R. book, Spelling words in ABC order, and complete a math workbook page
Tuesday – A.R. Book, Write a sentence with each of the board words/spelling words (no sentence shorter than five words), and complete a math workbook page.
Wednesday –A.R. Book, Study Spelling Words, and complete a math workbook page
Thursday -Study for a spelling test, write spelling words three times each, and complete a math workbook page.

Test Schedule

A.R./Library Book test – three days a week
Math Fact Drills and Mad Minutes Quizzes - Grades are taken on Thursdays until Christmas(Children move up to new levels on Thursdays )if we are having Math Fact Tests
Spelling Test – Friday
Math Test – Most Fridays
Reading Test - Fridays
All other tests – When a unit has been completed (test dates will be logged in assignment books/Agenda)

Other Links:

Parents Will Initial 2 Times Each Night

Homework Schedule