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1. Welcome to Back to School Night Presented by Mrs. Hill http://teacherweb.com/CA/StevensonRanchElementary/hill/

2. About Mrs. Hill • 17 1/2 years teaching with the Newhall School District-2nd and 3rd grades • Undergraduate Specialist degree in English Literature with a minor in Philosophy from The University of Toronto • Bachelor of Education from University of Toronto • Taught English Language for 1 year in Japan • Born in Sri Lanka • Moved to Canada at age 6 • Hobbies include: hiking, reading, film, writing, yoga, cooking, keeping fit and healthy • Live in Woodland Hills

3. Daily Schedule • 8:15-8:45 self-starters, school business, overview of the day, Language/ math self starters • 8:45-10:15 Language Arts: Reading strategies/comprehension, reading groups, novel studies, grammar • 10:15-10:30 Recess • 10:30-11:30 Writing Genres • 11:30-11:50 Mathematics

4. Daily Schedule • 11:50-12:30 Lunch • 12:30-1:30 Finishing math lessons from the morning • 1:30-2:45 VOWAC/ Social Studies/Science • Computer Lab Friday (1:30-2:00) • LibraryWednesday (2:30-3:00) • Music Friday (9:30-10:00) -every other week) • P.E. Alternating Fridays beginning Oct.25th (12:40-1:25) • Science Lab: 9:05-9:45 (10/3-10/31 and 2/13-3/6)

5. Common Core Philosophy • Focus on critical thinking, problem solving, evaluating, higher-level thinking strategies • Increased rigor with deeper conceptual understanding • Self discovery of learning versus teacher directed • Students are expected to explain understanding of concepts learned in written form • Students are expected to use text as evidence for answers in reading comprehension and math problems in order to evaluate their understanding of concepts http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/glc2ndgradecurriculum.pdf

6. Basic Philosophy of Common Core

7. VOWAC(Vowel Oriented Word Attack Course) • Newly integrated program K-2 • Phonics, Decoding, and Spelling • Auditory, Visual, and Kinesthetic, lessons progress in difficulty • Will increase decoding independence and strengthen fluency/comprehension

8. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade Reading-Literature Standards: • Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text • Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral • Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. • Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. • Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. • Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

9. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade • Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. • Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. Reading-Information text: • Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. • Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. • Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. • Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.

10. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade • Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. • Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. • Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. • Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. • Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

11. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade Writing: • Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section. • Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section. • Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

12. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade • With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing. • Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations). • Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. • Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

13. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade Speaking and Listening: • Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. • Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). • Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others. • Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.

14. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade • Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. • Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification Language Standards: • Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking (collective nouns, irregular plural nouns, reflexive pronouns, irregular past tense verbs, adjectives, adverbs, Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences

15. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade • Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing (proper nouns, commas, use of contractions for contractions and possessives, Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words, Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings, • Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

16. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade Vocabulary: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies: • Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. • Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell). • Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root • Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark). • Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in all content areas.

17. Curriculum Language Arts 2nd Grade Vocabulary: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.a. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy). • Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny). • Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).

18. Curriculum Standards for Mathematical Practice • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • Reason abstractly and quantitatively. • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. • Model with mathematics. • Use appropriate tools strategically. • Attend to precision. • Look for and make use of structure. • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

19. Curriculum Mathematics Operations and Algebraic Thinking • Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction. • Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1 • Add and subtract within 20. • Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

20. Curriculum Mathematics Operations and Algebraic Thinking: • Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication. • Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends. • 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. • Use repeated addition and counting by multiples to demonstrate multiplication. • Use repeated subtraction and equal group sharing to demonstrate division.

21. Curriculum Mathematics Number and Operations in Base Ten: • Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases: 100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens—called a “hundred.” • Count within 1000; skip-count by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s. • Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form • Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.

22. Curriculum Mathematics Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract: • Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. • Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations. • Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

23. Curriculum Mathematics Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract: • Use estimation strategies in computation and problem solving with numbers up to 1000. • Make reasonable estimates when adding or subtracting. • Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100–900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100–900. • Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations

24. Curriculum Measurement and Data: • Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes. • Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two • Explanations may be supported by drawings or objects • Measurements- describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen. • Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.

25. Curriculum Measurement and Data: • verify reasonableness of the estimate when working with measurements (e.g., closest inch). • Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit. Relate addition and subtraction to length: • Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. • Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, ..., and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram.

26. Curriculum Time and Money: • Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m. • Know relationships of time (e.g., minutes in an hour, days in a month, weeks in a year). • Solve word problems involving combinations of dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have? Represent and interpret data: • Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units. • Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph.

27. Curriculum Geometry: • Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces, Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. • Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number • 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.

28. Curriculum Social Studies • Trace the history of a family through the use of primary and secondary sources including artifacts, photos, interviews, and documents; compare and contrast their daily lives with those of parents, grandparents, guardians, etc.; place important events in their lives in order in which they occurred • Demonstrate map skills by describing the absolute and relative locations of people, places, and environments-label from memory a map of North American continent including countries, oceans, mountain ranges, major rivers and lakes; identify map elements like title, legend, Compass rose, scale, and date • Locate where their ancestors came from and tell when and why they made their trip

29. Curriculum Social Studies • Explain the governmental institutions and practices in the United States and other countries-how laws are made, how laws are carried out, punishment of wrongdoers; describe ways in which groups and nations interact to solve problems in areas such as trade, treaties, diplomacy, military force, cultural contracts • Students understand the basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy, and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills; describe food production and consumption in the past and today including roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather and land resources; understand interdependence of consumers and producers; understand how limits on resources affect population and consumption

30. Curriculum Science • Motion of objects can be observed and measured-push/pull, machines (forces) make objects move, gravity, magnets, sound is made by vibrations • Plants and animals have predictable life cycles-characteristics inherited by parents, environmental effects on growth and development; flowers and fruits are associated with reproduction in plants; • Earth is made of materials that have distinct properties and provide resources for humans-compare physical properties of different kinds of rocks; make up of soil, capacity to retain water; fossils provide evidence about life on Earth long ago; earth resources of water, plants, minerals

31. Curriculum Technology • Keyboarding procedures-using Type to Learn software which keeps track of accuracy and time: Lessons 1-7 • Basic word processing skills-changing color, size, style of font; publishing short pieces; adding Clip Art • District Software: Kid Pix, Orchard (math and language skills based on student abilities)

32. Report Card • Most Mathematics and Language concepts are exit standards for second grade and are spiral reviewed the entire year • Students may not gain mastery of exit standards until second or third term • These core concepts will increase in difficulty as the year progresses so grades may change throughout the year • The goal is to gain mastery by the end of second grade • Social Studies and Science concepts are not spiral reviewed thus grades are final depending on the unit taught in the term

33. Positive Discipline • Students take responsibility for their actions and behavior • Focus on respectful behavior for oneself, classroom, school, work, and one another • Whole classroom rewards-”Popcorn Party” • Group Points-Eat lunch with Mrs. Hill at end of month • Individual Acknowledgement-tickets and prizes • Students write letters to have signed by parents • Phone calls/letters/emails home • Weekly reports given

34. Homework Policy • Basic homework packet consists of spelling activities, math, and reading comprehension • Long term projects, assignments given in place of homework during the year • Unfinished class work sent home if time was not spent wisely in the classroom • Homework grade determined by timeliness of submission, accuracy, details, neatness

35. Miscellaneous Tidbits • Birthdays: non-edible treats to stay in line with District Wellness policy • Encourage water bottles and recess snacks • Volunteering from 9-noon (however long you want in that time block) • Please send home a note if child is having a play date or going home with someone not on the After School Arrangements Card • Class website has information on homework assignments, class schedule, special announcements, calendar, wish list • Email me through class website