"At Cascade View Elementary School we challenge every student to think, to learn, to care and to succeed."
Welcome to Room 26! The students and I have been having a wonderful time getting to know each other, practicing our writing, exploring books and reading, and improving our math skills. In second grade, not only do we try to teach these academic skills, but also how to be confident and self motivated. These are essential skills that will benefit your child for a lifetime, and they cannot always be measured. I know you will see tremendous growth in your child this year, both academically and personally!
Here are the report card strands, so that when you look at the curriculum you will be able to see what it is that I am looking for when I look at your child's work:
Reading
• Reads accurately
• Reads fluently at grade level
• Shows comprehension by making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing and/or determining importance of story elements
• Reads for information and enjoyment in a variety of literature
• Demonstrates effort
Writing
• Writes on topic using one main idea; supporting details; clear beginning, middle, and end
• Use appropriate style: voice, word choice, and sentence fluency
• Knows and applies grammar sentence structure, punctuation, and capitalization
• Spells familiar words using spelling rules, word parts and sight words
• Uses correct letter formation, line orientation and spacing
• Uses writing process: Pre-write, Draft, Revise, Edit, Publish
• Demonstrates effort
Math
• Fluently and accurately recalls addition and subtraction facts
• Accurately solves 2-digit addition and subtraction
• Applies concepts in measurement (standard units)
• Applies concepts in time (digital and analog clocks)
• Applies concepts in money (coins)
• Applies concepts in algebraic sense (fact families, inverse operations, and patterns)
• Applies concepts in geometry (2 and 3 dimensional shapes)
• Applies concepts in bar graphs and picture graphs
• Summarizes, analyzes and explains mathematical thinking
• Demonstrates effort