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Welcome to Mrs. Sisock’s

Welcome to Mrs. Sisock’s. Second Grade Class in Room B105. Welcome. Parents: On the index card on your child’s desk please write Your child’s name Your name Your home phone number and cell phone number Your email address if you have one

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Welcome to Mrs. Sisock’s

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  1. Welcome to Mrs. Sisock’s Second Grade Class in Room B105

  2. Welcome • Parents: On the index card on your child’s desk please write • Your child’s name • Your name • Your home phone number and cell phone number • Your email address if you have one • Anything else you would like me to know about your child.

  3. Mrs. Sisock • This is my 6th year teaching 2nd grade at Bermudian Springs. • I graduated from Shippensburg. • I live in Dillsburg with my husband and our Brittany Spaniel named Jasmine. • I have a niece and nephew that I adore that live in Virginia.

  4. Schedule • Please review the schedule on your desk. • There are highlighters in your child’s desk if you wish to highlight their specials. • Special for the first day • Music • Lunch for the first day is: • Regular: chicken tenders • Alternate: pancake munchers

  5. Curriculum • Math • Everyday Math • Topics we will be learning about include: single and double digit addition and subtraction, fractions, temperature, money, time, graphs, measurement, multiplication and division • There is now a reference book, this will be sent home to help with some homework assignments. • Report Cards will show math grades but will be in the form of a checklist.

  6. Curriculum • English • Some topics of study will be kinds of sentences, punctuation, nouns, verbs, adjectives, proper capitalization, abbreviations, synonyms, antonyms, suffixes, prefixes, root words, and pronouns. • Writing • 6 + 1 Traits and Publishing Center • Ideas, Sentence Fluency, Organization, Word Choice, Voice, Conventions, and Presentation • Science • Rocks – 3 different kinds and how fossils are formed • Sound – how sound is made and travels • Habitats – what a habitat is and how it works

  7. Curriculum • Social Studies • Areas of study include: communities, government, Pennsylvania, our country, history, map skills, and cultures around the world. • Spelling • Words from the reading series • Reading • Work on the reading skills of summarizing, monitoring and clarifying, decoding, evaluating, self questioning, and predicting and inferring. • Work on individual reading skills through the Daily 5 • Handwriting • slant print and cursive

  8. Daily 5 • We began implementing this program last year and it is used by many teachers • Daily children should be working on • Writing • Word Work • Reading • Read to self • Listening to reading • Read to someone

  9. Daily 5 • The children will learn to work at their own levels to improve their reading and other areas. • Together we will set goals that they will work on while participating in the Daily 5 • The Daily 5 will take place during guided reading and intervention time.

  10. Homework • Reading: Read the story of the week • Read assigned story and get sheet signed (usually assigned on a Tuesday and must be completed by Friday). Tests are usually on Friday • Math: Homelink (almost every night) • Refer to the Parent Letter given at the beginning of the unit if your child is struggling.

  11. Homework • Spelling: List usually given on a Friday and test are usually on a Thursday. • Monday homework: rainbow write the words in 3 colors • Tuesday homework: sort the words by the pattern • Wednesday homework: study for the test • Thursday homework: none • Friday homework: study new list

  12. Homework • Science: There is no book but review sheets and vocabulary lists will be sent home. • Social Studies: Study for tests, vocabulary lists and page numbers to study will be written in homework folders

  13. Sample homework sheet

  14. Projects • Science: Identify a rock, create a musical instrument, create a new animal. • English: Do a research project on an animal and create a replica of the animal in its habitat. Do research and write a biography on a famous person. • Writing: Write a Publishing Center Story about animals.

  15. Project Examples

  16. Field Trips and Fun Activities • At this point we will take two field trips. • Rock Quarry and the Utz Factory – dealing with science unit on rocks and social studies we learn about factories. • Zoo America – this trip ties in with our habitats unit in science.

  17. Field Trips

  18. Other Fun Activities Fall Festival Read Across America

  19. Track and Field

  20. Jungle Theme • This year we have a Jungle/Safari Theme • A cheetah was adopted in the name of this class. • Goal: to help students understand the reality of endangered species • At the end of the year we do jungle themed activities!

  21. Student of the Week • TOP CAT OF THE WEEK • Every student will get one turn. They will fill out the poster. It is a way for kids to get to know each other. • The TOP CAT will also get to be in charge of the stuffed cheetah for the week.

  22. Discipline System • Cards: • Green – Good where everyone starts • Yellow – Needed a warning • Orange – Lose 5 minutes of recess • Red – Lose a whole recess and get a note home I also keep track of homework and it is very important that your child keeps up with their homework. I understand emergencies come up and it doesn’t get done. Please send me a note. Students get 3 strikes and then stay in from recess to do their work.

  23. Newsletters • Class newsletters will be sent home weekly as well as posted on the website. • Called the Sisock Cirrcular • You will also receive a parent letter with the math program at the start of each unit with the answers to the math homework.

  24. Class Website • http://sisock.wikispaces.com/ • Sisock.wikispaces.com • Here you can find each night’s homework, upcoming events, newsletters, resources and more. • I also include pictures of the students in different activities. A permission slip will be sent home asking permission to put your child’s picture on the website.

  25. Lunch Money • Send in an envelope with students name and completed yellow slip or add money online • I do allow for a snack time in class, but I do not provide the snacks they need to be sent in.

  26. Book Orders • 2 book orders • You can order online using the code H44KW • Checks only payable to Scholastic Book Clubs

  27. Parent Volunteers • Parent volunteers are welcome. • Volunteers: check papers, read with students, do learning centers, staple, paper cutting, etc. • Please indicate your interest and availability on the back of your index card. • Please indicate your interest even if you can only volunteer sporadically.

  28. Important Information and Forms • For the first week bring in the following: • 4 quarters • 10 dimes in a marked bag or • 10 nickels envelope • 15 pennies • An old clean sock to clean white boards • One binder • Internet Papers • Designated Homework Person • Other items to consider: • Pencils, dry erase markers, washable markers

  29. Contact Info for Mrs. Sisock • Email Lsisock@bermudian.org Or contact me at the school’s number my extension is 4205

  30. Thank you for coming. I am looking forward to a fun and exciting year. Have a great night!

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