1. Back to School Night 2017 Mrs. Kennedy’s second grade Welcome
Back to School Night 2017 Mrs. Kennedy’s second grade Welcome! Please read the note from your child and please write a note back.

2. Morning Routine HNN – Hillside News Network Calendar Morning Work
Snack
- Healthy Choices

3. Reading Workshop Mini lesson
Graphic organizers, compare characters, connections, comprehension, sequence of story
Just right books
Reading conferences
Book Baggies – homework reading
Reading Responses

4. Writing Workshop Mini lesson Writing Notebooks and Folders
Writing Units – narrative, small moments, opinion, fairy tales, revising & editing, nonfiction, poetry

5. Author Studies
Study the style of writing, patterns across books, write like the authors
Kevin Henkes
Eric Carle
Patricia Polacco
Cynthia Rylant

6. Non-fiction Reading and Writing
How to books
Topics of interest
How to read non-fiction
Write their own non-fiction articles

7. Poetry Unit Different kinds of poems Read different poems
Respond to poems
Write their own poems

8. Spelling
Phonics First – multisensory approach to learning sounds and sounding out words
Spelling patterns and sorting
Spelling groups
Spelling homework choices
Spelling games and activities

9. Math Number Sense and Place Value Fluent in addition & subtraction
Problem solving – multi step word problems
Measurement & Data – Money, Time, Length, Graphs
Geometry and Fractions
Go Math homework pages

10. Social Studies The need for laws Recognize certain historical figures
Holidays and American Symbols
Economics
Maps
Scholastic News

11. Science Earth’s Land and Water Relationships in Habitats
Changes to Earth’s Land
Properties of Matter
Changes to Matter
Science Lab with Mrs. Jost
STEM Lab with Ms. Iyo

12. Health
Personal Health
Nutrition
Safety

13. Extras Homework – Homework helper My Webpage
My address
Conferences – Dec. 4 - after school, Dec. 6 – afternoon (12:40 day for students) & Dec. 7 - evening
Class trips
Class parents
Birthdays

14. Reminders Please send in the home folder everyday.
Please sign the homework helper.
Please read and sign the Friday Notebook every weekend.
Students should have something for the hallway in the morning.
Please sign up for a conference time.

15. Thank you!
Thank you for coming and I look forward to a great year with you and the children!