Second grade

 

Meet the teachers

Second Grade Team


Contact your child's teacher:

 

Daily schedule

School starts: 8:00 am
School ends: 3:30 pm
Specials/teacher’s conference time: 2:30-3:20
 
Ms. Nwangu & Mrs. Chairez’s classes - 
Recess: 10:50-11:20
Lunch: 11:20-11:50
 
Mrs. Dale’s class - 
Recess: 10:55-11:25
Lunch: 11:25-11:55

 

Activities, events, and celebrations

  • Water Safety field trip in the fall.
     

Second grade skills and topics

English/Language Arts

  • Students read grade-level or above text with fluency and comprehension.
  • Students retell important events in logical order and make connections to their own experiences.
  • Students write legibly, using appropriate capitalization and punctuation in their compositions. Including planning, drafting, editing a document.

Mathematics:

  • Problem solving – with pictures
  • Regrouping with addition and subtraction
  • Multiplication and division.
  • Fractions and Geometry

Social Studies:

  • Students learn how historical figures and ordinary people helped shape our community, state, and nation (e.g. Dr. Martin Luther King, the governor, mayor etc.)
  • Students understand how humans use and modify the physical environment.
  • Students understand the purpose of government and characteristics of good citizenship.

Science:

  • Working Like a Scientist
  • Properties of Matter
     

Frequently asked questions

Are snacks allowed?
No
 
Will there be homework?
No homework, but students must continue to read 20 minutes daily and practice math facts.
 
Will there be tutorials?
Information coming soon
 
What if my student has a dismissal change?
Transportation changes can be made via phone call to the front office or email (to both the front office and homeroom teacher).

Please provide the following information:
  • Student's ID number
  • Student’s name, grade, and teacher
  • Bus number or daycare name
  • Date(s) the change is for
  • How student will get home instead (bus number, daycare name, or adult’s name)
Changes MUST be made by 2:45 pm. The end of the day is busy and we may not have time to receive or make a change after that time.

 

Things to work on at home

  • How to stay organized.
  • Read, read, read!  Read to your child and have him/her read to you!
  •  Memorize basic addition, subtraction and multiplication facts.
  •  Practice neat handwriting