Welcome Elmhurst families to our second grade classroom's website! This site will help you navigate second grade. I am very happy to be working with your child this year. Our second grade team assistant is Mrs. Kristen Jarman and we can't wait to boast about your child's learning experience and recognize how very smart and special they truly are!
I hope to guide them into a healthy interest in learning as well as helping others. Looking forward to having our students fill each other's buckets too! I hold high expectations for all my students and will accept nothing less than their best work. Partnering with you is a huge resource. Let's work together to benefit your child including raising their academic achievement. .Don't forget to check out the bucket filler tab. In second grade we will rise by lifting each other! Please be sure to check back often for classroom news, examples of what's going on in our room, and links to resources your child can use outside of the classroom!
READ TO ACHIEVE FOR PARENTS: Schools in NC use the mClass Reading 3D formative assessment system t measures students' reading skills and comprehension in in grades K-3. Please read and view this information about the Basic Literacy Skills and assessments used to evaluate each skill and see how we can both plan for individual support.
www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1326906
Elmhurst Website: www.pitt.k12.nc.us/elmhurst
Expectations:
PBIS in our school
Elmhurst Elementary uses a positive discipline program known as PBIS or Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. Our goal is to teach standard expectations or behaviors and celebrate positive behavior in our school. Rewards are used to celebrate and reinforce the upstanding demonstrated behaviors. Throughout our building are PBIS behavior Matrix Posters. These posters define expected building and bus behaviors. We also follow the BEAR rules and use Whole Brain Teaching Rules and Routines to encourage student engagement.
BEAR rules:
Be respectful
Eager to learn
Always prepared
Responsible
Safe and secure
WHOLE BRAIN TEACHING:
Whole brain teaching integrates classroom management with effective teaching techniques. It is an approach to encourage student engagement and utilize information the way the brain is designed to learn. Effective classroom management practices reinforce positive behaviors and discourages behaviors that are negative to your child and other students. Please help your child learn these 5 important rules:
Rule 1- Follow Directions Quickly
Rule 2- Raise your hand for permission to speak
Rule 3- Raise your hand for permission to leave your seat
Rule 4- Make Smart Choices
Rule 5- Keep your dear teacher happy!
Our Daily Schedule
7:20-7:50 Arrival and Morning Work/Sharing and Announcements
7:50- 9:45 Literacy
9:45- 10:00 Active Recess with Snack
10:00- 11:15 Literacy continued
11:20-11:45 Lunch
11:50- 12:55 Math
12:55- 1:35 Encore Class (Double every Tuesday) See Schedule Below
1:40-2:15 Literacy integrated with writing, Science and or S.S. continued
2:15- 2:20 Finish up/ Copy HW and Pack up
2:25 - Dismissal
Encore class schedule (Specials)
Monday Spanish with Mr. Meza
Tuesday (Double Encore Day) Physical Ed. with Mrs. Ward and Art with Mrs. Haas Rm.103
Wednesday Lab with Mrs. Jarman
Thursday Physical Education with Mrs. Ward
Friday Music with Mrs. Burke
Communication Folders:
Every Wednesday your child will bring home a Communication Folder. On the right side you will find important information and updates such as flyers or notes for our school and classroom. The left side will be completed classwork to review and keep at home. At times I will include a test that needs to be checked for revisions and or signed. Please don't forget to sign the back of your child's folder and send it back to school with them on Thursday.
Uniform Policy:
Check out the student dress code and appearance policy summation: pitt.k12.nc.us/Domain/84
Weekly Reading Logs:
The pink reading log will be in your child's homework folder in the Please Return Slot.
We will do LOTS of reading this year. As research shows over and over again- the best way to become better at reading is to read read read read! All students should be reading for at least 30 minutes every night as an assigned part of their homework. After reading, students should be filling in their nightly reading log. Students must record the number of minutes they read along with the book title, number of pages in the book and they must have their log entries signed by a grown up at home. A note should be included on the sheet or sticky / post it/ and note if your child is ready for an AR test or needs to reread or finish the book. Reading logs are collected at the end of every marking period. Failure to complete reading log entries will result in consequences. I cannot give credit if they are incomplete. Please please check over your child's log and sign it every night!
Lunch and snack: Please send a healthy snack with your child to school every day. If your child brings lunch to school, please pack their snack separate from their lunch box. Students are welcome to bring juice and water to keep in the snack basket. Please do not send soda.
Tardy and Late:
Parents/students must sign in on the office computer if you arrive after the bell rings at 7:50. ALL tardy students must come through the office and will need a white tardy slip to enter the classroom.
Spelling Tests:
The spelling words focus on specific pattern/vowel sounds which we will work on throughout the week. The Friday spelling test will include 10 words for the first two nine weeks. ***Later on in the year by the third nine weeks I will make it to be 15 words and 2 dictation sentences that will include Spelling words or words for which the children will have to apply the skill/pattern we have worked on that week. The students will start by writing the words on Monday and will follow a daily practice routine to complete at home each day leading up to the test. The suggested routines will be used for all spelling lists. You can help your child complete routine in order to prepare for that week's spelling test. Please help your child prepare for that week’s spelling test by giving them a practice test. Read each spelling word aloud in random order as your child writes each word one at a time in their spelling notebook or piece of paper. Together, check and correct the practice test. Have you child practice writing again any words spelled incorrectly.