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Reading/Lang Arts | Social Studies | Science | Mathematics | Phy Ed | Health | Music | Field Trips/Parties | Homework | Parents | Special Services
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Deb |
Adams |
628-4253 |
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Karen |
Anderson |
629-4197 |
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Morgan |
Bollinger |
629-4287 |
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Todd |
Johnson |
629-4223 |
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Donna |
Peters |
629-4229 |
Text: Houghton Mifflin/SRA Direct Instruction
Learner outcomes: Students will...
• complete the learning of all essential phonics skills
• expand their literary vocabularies
• show that they know various techniques to be able to read and understand what was read
• use writing as another process to respond to reading
• be encouraged to read, think, and write about many subjects
• be introduced to many different types of literature
• improve their oral reading skills through practice in partner reading, cooperative groups and other activities
• demonstrate the ability to write a telling sentence
• demonstrate the ability to write an asking sentence
• recognize and write a paragraph
• participate in listening and speaking exercises
• be able to spell the weekly list of words
Students also start going to language arts lab in second grade. Here the basic skills that they learned in the classroom are reviewed, practiced, and enriched.
Text: Harcourt
1. Governing the People
2. The World Around Us
3. Using our Resources
4. People Long Ago
5. A World of Many People
6. People in the Marketplace
Special Units: Kids Around the World
Classroom units:
•Insects
•Dinosaurs
•Weather
•Animals getting ready for winter
Lab:
•Rock & Charts Making Things Go Treeriffic Gardening
Text: Houghton Mifflin
Learner outcomes: Students will...
• master addition and subtraction facts through 18
• regroup for addition and subtraction
• apply math facts to develop problem solving strategies
• develop time-telling skills
• be introduced to the concept of multiplication
• learn measurement
• money
• geometry
• fractions
• probability
• data
• graphing
Learner outcomes: Students will...
• function as leaders and as followers
• control emotions in both winning and losing situations
• abide by the rules
• improve physical fitness, including strength balance, coordination endurance, accuracy speed
• learn a variety of games and beginning sports skills
• perform basic movement skills (such as running, jumping, leaping, skipping, and galloping) with ease
• experience movements in rhythm activities
• have fun
Test: McGraw Hill
Learner outcomes: Students will...
• Personal Health
• Emotional and Intellectual Health
• Nutrition
• Physical Activity and Fitness
• Community and Environmental Health
Learner outcomes: Students will...
• recognize different vocal and instrumental sounds from around the world
• sing songs and dance to music from diverse culture and styles
• relate music to other disciplines
• read and create rhythm patterns
• recognize, read and create melodies
Please send $5.00 with your child to help cover party expenses. These parties will be held at:
• Halloween
• Christmas
• Valentine’s Day
Field Trips
• Mill City Museum
• Northwest Fur Post
• Study for weekly spelling tests
• Work not completed during seat work time
• Math fact practice 0 through 18
• Minimum of 10 minutes reading per school day
"A child's success in school depends upon many factors, but none more than involved, supportive parents."
• Read with your child
• Be sure he/she has the needed school supplies throughout the year
scissors, glue sticks, pencils, pencil box, crayons, colored pencils, markers, one plastic folder, two 2 pocket folders, three wide-lined one subject notebooks and two boxes of tissues
• Replace items through out the year
• Visit the classroom
• Volunteer
• Attend parent/teacher conferences
• Communicate any changes in the family situation or routine
• Demonstrate love, confidence, and consistency in working with your son/daughter
• Check your child’s totebag for notes and homework
A continuum of services is available for Pine City’s special needs learners. At the second grade level, Title I and special ed. are available. Interventions that might be made include an increased amount of instructional time, changes in methods and/or materials modified expectations, etc. Special education is offered according to the guidelines for the St. Croix River Education District. Pine City also has a school psychologist and a school nurse.