2010-2011 Syllabus for Second Grade    Term 1

Teacher: Diane Morales

Midterm progress report: Sept. 16   Common Term Assessments: Oct. 13-15  

Report cards Oct. 21

MATH TERM 1

Objectives: This is a general overview of what the teacher will teach and what the student is expected to master.

(Chapters 1 – 3 in Math Connects)

Understand and represent relationships among numbers and operations (addition, subtraction, and multiplication).

Compute fluently using effective strategies or rote memory.

Recall addition and subtraction facts.

Compose and decompose three-digit numbers with representations in words and

physical models.

Determine and compare the value of money up to $2.00 using the appropriate symbols

for dollars and cents.

Recall place value to the 10s place.

Recall place value to the 100s place.

Analyze patterns, numbers, relationships, and functions.

Explain, analyze, and extend repeating and growing patterns.

Use number patterns to skip count by 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

Model situations and solve equations that involve the addition and subtraction of whole

numbers. (Limited to add/subtract without regouping of basic facts)

Analyze and generalize the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction.

Sum

Assessments:  A miminum of (5) test grades in writing to be recorded will carry the weight of  90% of the final term grade. These grades will be taken from chapter tests.  The Common Term Assessment (CTA) will carry a weight of 10% for the term.

Homework/Assignments/Projects: Grade level and age appropriate homework/ assignments/projects are designed to stimulate initiative and independence or to reinforce and enrich classroom instruction.

Course Requirements:  Homework/daily classroom assignments/projects are to be turned in complete and on time in order for the student to receive full credit and/or grade.

Reteaching and Retesting:  A student will be allowed to retest within 10 days of receiving his/her test grade. A notice will be sent home notifying parents of a failing test grade. **TERM TEST WILL NOT BE RETESTED**  Students will be required to meet with the teacher during designated times throughout the school day.  Students must complete these tutorial sessions that cover skill assignments within that 10- day period to be eligible to retest.  

Additional Comments: Refer to homeroom teacher web page for class information.  Parents make sure to review Communication folders that will be sent home every Tuesday evening. Make sure to sign and return folders to school by that Thursday .

WRITING / ENGLISH/ SPELLING TERM 1 (LANGUAGE/ARTS)

Objectives: This is a general overview of what the teacher will teach and what the student is expected to master.

**LANGUAGE /ARTS WILL CONSIST OF A MINIMUM OF (15) MAJOR TEST GRADES PER SUBJECT

OR EACH OF THE SUBCATEGORIES:(5) WRITING,  (5) ENGLISH, (5) SPELLING

**WRITING/ENGLISH**

The student will express, communicate, or evaluate ideas effectively.

The student will use an appropriate composing process (e.g., planning, drafting, revising,

editing, publishing/sharing) to compose or edit.

Planning • Use a variety of graphic organizers (e.g., Venn diagram, bubble maps, story

maps, etc.) to generate and organize ideas.

Publishing/Sharing • Publish writing by displaying, retelling, and/or reading written ideas.

The student will compose informational text with a main idea and supporting details.

Functional texts (e.g., labels, directions, shopping lists)

The student will use Standard English to communicate.

The student will use Standard English grammar.

Nouns (e.g., singular, plural)

Verbs

Prepositions

The student will use Standard English mechanics to compose or edit.

Write words and sentences legibly.

End punctuation (e.g., period, question mark)

Colons (e.g., in notation of time)

Spell words commonly found in second grade level texts

The student will use correct and varied sentence structure.

Analyze sentences to determine purpose (e.g., declarative/telling, interrogative/question).

Compose declarative/telling and interrogative/question sentences.

Compose simple sentences.

*SPELLING**

The student will use word recognition and vocabulary (word meaning) skills to

communicate.

The student will apply knowledge of phonological and phonemic awareness.

Blend and segment spoken words into syllables and syllables into phonemes.

Continue to identify and count the number of syllables in a spoken word.

Add, delete, substitute, or begin to transpose a phoneme to change a spoken word in the

initial, medial, and final position (e.g., Add /b/ to “at”= bat; or take /k/ from “cat” = at; change

/i/ in hit to /a/ = hat.

The student will use word recognition skills for multi-syllabic words.

Use inflectional endings (e.g., -s, es, -ed, or -ing) to produce or analyze new words

Read 200 to 300 high frequency and/or irregularly spelled words in connected text. (A

second grader should read approximately 90 to 100 words correct per minute in

connected text by the end of second grade.)

The student will use syllabication types (e.g., open, closed) to decode words.

The student will manipulate and analyze roots and affixes (e.g., un-, re-, -s, -es) to

understand unfamiliar words.

The student will identify and use antonyms.

The student will use reference materials to determine the meaning or pronunciation of

unknown words (e.g., personal dictionary, elementary dictionary, glossary, teacher, and/or

peer as a resource).

Assessments:   A miminum of (5) test grades in each subcategory: Writing= 20%, English= 40%, Spelling= 30% of the final term grade. These grades will be taken from chapter/unit tests.  The Common Term Assessment (CTA) will carry a weight of 10% for the term.  

Homework/Assignments/Projects: Grade level and age appropriate homework/ assignments/projects are designed to stimulate initiative and independence or to reinforce and enrich classroom instruction.

Course Requirements: Homework/daily classroom assignments/projects are to be turned in complete and on time in order for the student to receive full credit and/or grade.

Reteaching and Retesting:  A student will be allowed to retest within 10 days of receiving his/her test grade. A notice will be sent home notifying parents of a failing test grade. **TERM TEST WILL NOT BE RETESTED**  Students will be required to meet with the teacher during designated times throughout the school day.  Students must complete these tutorial sessions that cover skill assignments within that 10- day period to be eligible to retest.  

Additional Comments: Refer to homeroom teacher web page for class information. Parents make sure to review Communication folders that will be sent home every Tuesday evening. Make sure to sign and return folders to school by that Thursday .

READING TERM 1

Objectives: This is a general overview of what the teacher will teach and what the student is expected to master.

The student will use word recognition and vocabulary (word meaning) skills to

communicate.

The student will apply knowledge of phonological and phonemic awareness.

Blend and segment spoken words into syllables and syllables into phonemes.

Continue to identify and count the number of syllables in a spoken word.

Add, delete, substitute, or begin to transpose a phoneme to change a spoken word in the

initial, medial, and final position (e.g., Add /b/ to “at”= bat; or take /k/ from “cat” = at; change

/i/ in hit to /a/ = hat.

The student will use word recognition skills for multi-syllabic words.

Use inflectional endings (e.g., -s, es, -ed, or -ing) to produce or analyze new words

Read 200 to 300 high frequency and/or irregularly spelled words in connected text. (A

second grader should read approximately 90 to 100 words correct per minute in

connected text by the end of second grade.)

The student will use syllabication types (e.g., open, closed) to decode words.

The student will manipulate and analyze roots and affixes (e.g., un-, re-, -s, -es) to

understand unfamiliar words.

The student will identify and use antonyms.

The student will use reference materials to determine the meaning or pronunciation of

unknown words (e.g., personal dictionary, elementary dictionary, glossary, teacher, and/or

peer as a resource).

The student will apply strategies and skills to comprehend, respond to, interpret, or

evaluate a variety of texts of increasing length, difficulty, and complexity.

The student will use text features, parts of a book, text structures, and genres to analyze

text.

Text features – titles, headings, illustrations, graphs, captions, charts, etc.

Parts of a book – title page, title, author, illustrator, table of contents, glossary, etc.

Genres – Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry

The student will analyze texts in order to identify, understand, infer, or synthesize

information.

Answer literal and simple inferential who, what, when, where, why, how, and what if

questions.

Answer literal and simple inferential questions about main characters, settings, and

events.

The student will recognize or generate an appropriate summary or paraphrase of the

events or ideas in text, citing text-based evidence.

Retell a story orally including characters, setting, problem, important events, and

resolution.

The student will analyze, interpret, compare, or respond to increasingly complex literary

text, literary nonfiction, and informational text, citing text-based evidence.

Interpret text through moving, drawing, speaking, acting, or singing.

 Compose visual images.

Assessments: A miminum of (5) test grades to be recorded will carry the weight of 90% of the final term grade. These grades will be taken from chapter/unit tests.  The Common Term Assessment (CTA) will carry a weight of 10% of the grade for the term.  

Homework/Assignments/Projects: Grade level and age appropriate homework/ assignments/projects are designed to stimulate initiative and independence or to rienforce and enrich classroom instruction.

Course Requirements: Homework/daily classroom assignments/projects are to be turned in complete and on time in order for the student to receive full credit and/or grade.

Reteaching and Retesting:  A student will be allowed to retest within 10 days of receiving his/her test grade. A notice will be sent home notifying parents of a failing test grade. **TERM TEST WILL NOT BE RETESTED**  Students will be required to meet with the teacher during designated times throughout the school day.  Students must complete these tutorial sessions that cover skill assignments within that 10- day period to be eligible to retest.  

Additional Comments: Refer to homeroom teacher web page for class information.Parents make sure to review Communication folders that will be sent home every Tuesday evening. Make sure to sign and return folders to school by that Thursday .  

SCIENCE TERM 1

Objectives: This is a general overview of what the teacher will teach and what the student is expected to master.

Develop abilities necessary to conduct scientific investigations.

Formulate questions about objects and organisms and predict outcomes in order to

conduct a simple investigation

Compare, sort, and group objects according to two or more attributes.

Use simple tools (e.g., rulers, thermometers, scales, hand lenses, microscopes,

balances, clocks) to gather information.

Length, to the nearest inch, foot, yard, centimeter, and meter

Capacity, to the nearest ounce, cup, pint, quart, gallon, and liter

Weight, to the nearest ounce, pound, gram, and kilogram

Time, to the nearest hour, half-hour, quarter-hour, and fiveminute intervals (using digital

and analog clocks)

Collect and display technological products (e.g., zipper, coat hook, ceiling fan pull chain,

can opener, bridge, apple peeler, wheel barrow, nut cracker, etc.) to determine their

function.

Create line graphs, bar graphs, and pictographs to communicate data.

Infer that science investigations generally work the same way in different places.

Apply an understanding of properties of objects and materials, position and motion of

bjects, and properties of magnetism.

Recognize that an object can be seen only if either light falls on it or it emits light, and that

color is a property of light.

Develop an understanding of the properties of Earth materials, objects in the sky, and

changes in Earth and sky.

c Collect, organize, and graph weather data obtained by using simple weather instruments

(wind vane, rain gauge, thermometer) and explain the components of the water cycle.

Model and explain the concept of Earth’s rotation as it relates to day and night and infer

why it is usually cooler at night than in the day.

Assessments: Science grades will be incorporated with other reading, writing, and language arts grades.Tests will be given to measure student achievement.

Homework/Assignments/Projects: Grade level and age appropriate homework/ assignments/projects are designed to stimulate initiative and independence or to reinforce and enrich classroom instruction.

Course Requirements: Homework/daily classroom assignments/projects are to be turned in complete and on time in order for the student to receive full credit and/or grade.

Reteaching and Retesting:  A student will be allowed to retest within 10 days of receiving his/her test grade. A notice will be sent home notifying parents of a failing test grade. **TERM TEST WILL NOT BE RETESTED**  Students will be required to meet with the teacher during designated times throughout the school day.  Students must complete these tutorial sessions that cover skill assignments within that 10- day period to be eligible to retest.  

Additional Comments: Refer to homeroom teacher web page for class information. Parents make sure to review Communication folders that will be sent home every Tuesday evening. Make sure to sign and return folders to school by that Thursday .