nd Welcome to 2 Grade! SUZANNE LAWRENCE NINA PATTAKOS CAITLIN QUINN ELAINE HENDERSON What is MCPS Curriculum 2.0?  New Internationally-driven standards in mathematics, reading, and writing.  Renewed focus on teaching the whole child.  Integrates thinking, reasoning, and creativity for a lifetime of learning.  Gets away from paper pencil task and incorporates more technology. New internationally-driven standards in mathematics, reading, and writing  Developed by a group of states to help U.S. students compete favorably with peers in leading academic nations.  More challenging than current Maryland standards.  Greater emphasis on depth of understanding at the elementary level in mathematics, reading, and writing.  Learn more at corestandards.org Art Mathematics Music Health Information Literacy Reading Science Social Studies Writing Renewed focus on teaching the whole child  The Thinking and Academic Success Skills are the common thread that integrate content areas.  Content areas still maintain their separate goals and objectives.  Students learn more when making connections across content areas – natural areas for connections are provided. What is MCPS Curriculum 2.0? Staying The Same Strong focus on reading and mathematics Upgrade Internationally-driven standards in mathematics, reading, and writing • Separate times for art, music, and physical education and other specials Integration of content areas through • Classroom teachers providing Thinking and Academic Success Skills instruction in science and social studies Thinking skills included in content areas • Specific instruction on Thinking and Academic Success skills across content areas • Clearly defined critical thinking, creative thinking, and academic success skills Math • Everyone stays in their homeroom class • Differentiation is done through small group instruction • Students work in centers while teacher is working with small groups • Concepts build on each other throughout the year • Slow paced Percent of Content Percent of Content Math Math Math Math Math Math Math Math Alg. K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Prep Math Math Math Math Math Math Math Math Math K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Current MCPS Curriculum Number Algebra Geometry Measurement Statistics Probability Final Common Core Standards Number Algebra Geometry Measurement Statistics Probability Main Math Concepts for the Year • • • • • • Place Value up to the thousands Patterns on a hundreds chart Addition and subtraction facts and fact families Comparing and ordering numbers Picture and bar graphs Fluently add and subtract within 100 Quarter 1 • • • • • • Quarter 2 • Addition and Subtraction within 100 Place Value up to the Hundreds Numerals up to 1000 Comparing 3-digit numbers Addition and Subtraction within 100 Mental sums up to 20 Bar graphs and picture graphs • • • • Addition and subtraction involving money Skip counting by 5’s Odd and even Mental sums up to 20 Math Quarter 3 • • • • • • Number lines to 100 Linear measurement Addition and subtraction involving linear measurement Telling time Fractions-1/2, 1/3, ¼ Repeated addition Quarter 4 • Addition and subtraction within 1000 • Addition and subtraction with memory within 20 • Shapes Reading • Heterogeneous classes • Flexible differentiated small group instruction • Reading many genres: fiction, nonfiction, mystery, biographies, folktales, poetry Reading Levels • Students are in flexible reading groups based on the following 3 criteria: • Fluency • Oral Comprehension • Written Comprehension*** • Using details and evidence from text to support the answer Grade level End of First Quarter End of End of End of Second Quarter Third Quarter Fourth Quarter Kindergarten (Not Applicable) Level 1 (A) Level 2–3 (B–C) Level 4 (C)* First Grade Level 5–7 (D–E) Level 8–11 (E–G) Level 12–15 (H–I) Level 16–17 (I) Second Grade Level J Level K Level L Level M Third Grade Level M Level N Level O Level P Fourth Grade Level Q–R Level S–T Fifth Grade Level T–U Level V–W nd 2 Grade Testing • mClass (September, January and May) • TN2 (week of April 16th) Gifted and Talented Testing • Raven (Spring) • InView (Spring) Writing • We will use different texts to model and guide students throughout the writing process Types of Writing: • Personal Narratives • Writing to Inform • Opinion Pieces • Process, Production, and Research 6+1 Traits of Writing Ideas and Development Organization Sentence fluency Conventions Word Choice Voice Quarter 1 Relationships among rights and responsibilities Effective ways to work together in groups Effective social interactions • • • Quarter 2 • • • • • Places on earth Geographic tools Geographic characteristics Elements of Culture Customs and Traditions and how they change Social Studies Quarter 3 • • • • • • • Technology affects daily life Transportation past and present Production process Goods and services Financial transactions Distribution of goods Economic decision making skills Quarter 4 • Relationships among events over time • People today and long ago • Contributions of government leaders and others to America Quarter 1 • • Quarter 2 • Description of earth’s materials: properties of rocks, soil, and water Description of earth’s surface and atmosphere • • Classification of objects based on observable properties Description of parts of objects and relationships between parts of objects Investigation of changes made to parts of objects Science Quarter 3 Survival of plants and animals in familiar and unfamiliar habitats • Comparisons of plant and animal life cycles • Observation and description of minute organisms in their habitats • Comparisons of familiar organisms to organisms that lived long ago Quarter 4 • Description of day and night sky • Moon and sun observation over time • Description and comparison of patterns of change in the sun and moon Homework • Reading and Math Homework will be a 2 week cycle • List of activities for each subject that the students can choose from based on their interest • Most assignments will not be paper/pencil activities. They will be meaningful learning experiences • Monday, October 3rd will be the start of homework Spelling • • • • • • • 2 week cycle Focused spelling pattern Individualized list will be 7-10 words Students will choose from list of activities to complete Buddy pre-test the first Friday of cycle Graded test will be the following Friday Spelling grades on report card reflect both spelling test grades and their writing Grading • O- Outstanding • S- Satisfactory • N- Needs Improvement Class Meetings • • • • Held on a weekly basis to solve problems Discuss class issues and concerns Set goals for the week End with a round of compliments