2nd Grade

January 5: Student Holiday

January 6: STUDENTS BACK TO SCHOOL

January 8: Report Card Day

January 8: Library Night (5:00-6:00)

January 19: MLK, Jr. Day – No School

January 22: Math CBA #5

January 28: Picture Day

Rees families are welcomed to come and have lunch with their 2nd graders every Wednesday, only two guest at a time are allowed per week. Please sign in to the front office when you arrive.

Ms. Costello and Ms. Scott's class: 11:20 - 11:50

Mrs. Manuel and Ms. Rodas' class: 11:25 - 11:55

Ms. Reyes and Ms. Valencia's class: 11:30 - 12:00

Tuesday

#AliefProud shirt with jeans.

Wednesday

College / Military shirt with jeans.

Thursday

Yellow Shirt with jeans for commitment.

Friday

Rees Spirit shirt with jeans.

These dress up days are optional. Students are welcomed to wear their collared shirts with khaki or navy pants on a daily biases.

Module 5- Lead the Way

In January, we will finish module 4th and begin our 5th module- Lead the way. In this module, children will read stories and texts that will help them identify the qualities many good leaders possess. They can learn to recognize these qualities in themselves so they can work to become good leaders in the classroom and in their school. Some key concepts we will be teaching will be:

Use Metacognitive Skills

Synthesize
Evaluate
Summarize

Literary Elements/Author’s Purpose and Craft

Ideas and Support
Figurative Language
Characters
Text Features
Text Organization
Content-Area Words
Chronological Order

Personal Essay

As students finish up their imaginative stories for Module 4, we will be moving into Module 5, Personal Essays. Children will explore things that make them unique and write a personal essays about what makes them unique to share with others. No two people are exactly the same and our differences are what make us special and unique. Students will use the following anchor charts to guide their writing.

Unit 5: Money and Personal Finances (End of Unit CBA: Jan.22)

Determine the value of a collection of coins up to one dollar
Use the cent symbol, dollar sign, and the decimal point to name the value of a collection of coins
Understand saving, spending, deposit and withdraw
Understand the concept of borrowing and lending money
Home to School Connections: Unit 5

Unit 6: Multiply and Divide (Unit begins Jan.26)

Model, create, and describe contextual multiplication situations in which equivalent sets of concrete objects are joined; and
Model, create, and describe contextual division situations in which a set of concrete objects is separated into equivalent sets
Determine whether a number up to 40 is even or odd using pairings of objects to represent the number
Home to School Connections: Unit 6

Chapter 6: Weather and the Sky

STEM Activities Continued (01/06-01/09)

Big Idea: Weather data can be measured and graphed and severe weather varies by region. The Sun provides light and heat and objects in the sky can be studied with special tools.

Weather Information (01/12-01/23)

Students will measure, record and graph weather information, including temperature and precipitation.

Severe Weather (01/26-01/30)

Students will investigate different types of severe weather events such as a hurricane, tornado or flood and explain that some events are more likely than others in a given region.

Unit 3: The World Around Us

Landforms and Bodies of Water

Students will learn how to Identify physical features of Earth, such as landforms and bodies of water.
Students will learn to describe how the location of landforms and bodies of water are shown on physical maps.

Weather and Climate

Students will learn how weather and climate affect where and how people, plants, and animals live.
Students will learn to recognize that areas can be divided into regions with unifying characteristics, such as climate and environment.
Students will learn how to describe weather conditions and understand the effects of sudden weather changes.

Our Environment

Students learn to Identify, and compare and contrast the characteristics of urban, suburban, and rural areas.
Students will learn to recognize how geographic characteristics such as weather, climate, and location can influence people’s decisions about how and where to live.

Where People Choose to Live

Students will how the availability of natural resources affect where people live and the activities they can do.
Students will learn how weather and seasonal patterns affect where people choose to live.They will also learn how natural hazards affect where people live.
Students will learn to identify different kinds of communities, including urban, rural, and suburban, and how their characteristics affect the activities people do.