1. Ms. Janelle Smalling - Grade 2
Get Acquainted Night
Ms. Janelle Smalling - Grade 2

2. Welcome To Our New School! The K-3 Vision
The K-3 vision for Fyle is based around the believe that as a team, we can
developing each student’s foundational reading, writing, and math skills so that students can be successful learners and thinkers.
This shared commitment is a school priority that allows us (as a school community) to:
Develop school-wide, grade level, and classroom goals that support balanced literacy (reading, writing, listening, speaking) and balanced math (conceptual understandings, fluency) instruction.
Monitor student achievement/progress toward meeting reading, writing and math goals.
Work as partners to identify best practices and interventions that support students’ literacy and math progress.
Fulfill the component of our vision statement, which requires us to work as partners to support student learning and a successful transition to the intermediate level.
By the end of 3rd grade, all students will have acquired the foundational literacy and math skills required for success at the intermediate level.
Consultants/Support Staff: Mrs. Bethmann (Literacy Coach)
Mrs. Corbridge & Mrs. Platania (Reading Teachers)
Ms. Tran (Math Coach)
Mrs. Lyons (Academic Intervention Service Teacher)
Ms. Kumba Sankoh (ESL Teacher)
Mrs. Alvut (Teachers Aid)

3. ** We will visit the library on Thursdays.**
Schedule
7:45 - 7: Arrival, Lunch Count, Attendance,
8:00- 9: Math
9:10 – 9: Study Block (RTI-Response To Intervention)
9:45-10: Specials
10:20 – 11: ELA (Block 1- Fundations)
11:30- 12: Lunch
12:00 – 12: Recess
12:20-1: ELA (Block 2 – Reading/Writing)
1:15 – 1: Science/Social Studies
1: Dismissal
** We will visit the library on Thursdays.**

4. Specials

5. Math Eureka Math -complete curriculum that sequences
Math Investigations 3rd Edition
Investigations is a program used to help develop students’ conceptual understanding of mathematics. Students get hands-on experience solving math situations through the use of games and inquiry based activities. There is an emphasis on explaining how answers are achieved. Students are expected to show their thinking in numbers, pictures and words. This newest edition provides more rigor and is better aligned to the CCLS.

6. CCLS
New York’s learning standards were initiated at the federal level and are called Core Curriculum Learning Standards (CCLS).  These standards are research and evidence based, aligned with college and career expectations, and internationally benchmarked since we are in a globally competitive society.  It is a very lengthy document and you can view it by going to and then clicking on the link that says New York State
P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy.  If you have questions about the CCLS, please stop by the table in the main hallway and speak to one of the support staff.

7. English Language Arts Block 1 (Reading/Writing) Block 2 (Word Study)
Guided Reading Instruction
groups are based on reading level and student needs
**The Daily Five**
1. Read to Self
2. Work on Writing
3. Read to Someone
4. Listen to Reading
5. Word Work
Writing Instruction
focused on ideas, organization, voice,
sentence fluency, word choice, conventions
and presentation
*3 Types of writing: opinion,
informative
& narrative
Block 2 (Word Study)
Wilson Fundations provides all students in K-3 classrooms with a systematic program in the foundational skills for reading and spelling, emphasizing phonemic awareness, phonics-word study, high frequency word study, fluency, vocabulary, handwriting, and spelling.

8. Strategies/Models Close Reading Socratic Seminar
Close Reading is a central focus of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It requires students to get truly involved with the text they are reading. The purpose is to teach them to notice features and language used by the author. Students will be required to think thoroughly and methodically about the details in a text.
1. Read for the flow
2. Read for literal comprehension (the gist)
3. Read for a deeper understanding
Socratic seminar as a collaborative, intellectual dialogue facilitated with open-ended questions about a text. It promotes a more rigorous approach, designed to improve students' critical thinking and communication skills. 

9. Science Balancing & Weighing – 9/26 -ELA Companion Kit Changes – 12/5
Many of our science units come with an English Language Arts companion kit that comes with resources that enable us to better integrate science content into reading and writing.
Balancing & Weighing – 9/26
-ELA Companion Kit
Changes – 12/5
- ELA Companion Kit
Soils – 2/27
Plant Growth & Development – 4/24

10. Social Studies Grade 2 Civics/Citizenship Communities/Change Over Time
Rules/laws
Symbols
Government
Communities/Change Over Time
Rural
Urban
Suburban
Geography
Map & Globe skills
Economics
Needs/wants

11. AIS
In order to differentiate instruction and provide the best learning experience for our students, we provide AIS or Academic Intervention Services.  You may have gotten a letter either in the spring or within the last week saying that your child was eligible for one or more of those services.  The classroom teacher is the primary provider of intervention services but we have a support team of reading, special education teachers, teacher assistants and instructional coaches that provide resources and information for us, and ALL of you.  That support team has a table in the main hallway that has handy information for ALL parents on state testing, academic intervention services and how you can help your child at home.  Please stop by and say hello and pick up information that will be helpful to you.

12. English Language Learners (ELLs)
ALL ELLs with the English language proficiency levels of: Entering, Emerging, Transitioning, and Expanding will receive Integrated English as a New Language (ENL) services “push in co-teaching” within a Content Area (ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Science)
Entering and Emerging students will receive an additional unit of stand-alone “pull out” ENL services
Transitioning students may receive a half unit of study of either Integrated ENL in a content area or stand-alone ENL services
Commanding students are considered former ELL students. For 2 additional years after achieving the Commanding level, these students will receive .5 units of study per week of Integrated English as a New Language (ENL) services “push in co-teaching” within a Content Area (ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Science) or other approved Former ELL service as needed by the
student to maintain academic success.

13. Differentiation
Implementing a variety of teaching approaches to meet the needs of individual students
Guided reading groups
Guided writing groups
Differentiated class work and homework
Math enrichment
Chromebook Lessons, Apps, Websites

14. Homework
Second Grade
15 minutes of reading each night is a district expectation
Students will fill out their Reading Log each weekend (leave inside back pocket of green Folder)
The Friday Folder will need to be signed and returned every Monday
Written homework (usually math) will typically be given Mon. - Thurs.
All homework papers will be labeled or stamped to
lesson confusion

15. Home Communication Friday Folders (weekly)
Classroom Webpage (Newsletters, Monthly Curriculum Documents, Links, Book Lists etc.)
Progress Reports (quarterly)
Parent/Teacher Conferences
November 21st & 22nd
Phone calls