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Welcome to Mrs. Sakala's Class Page
Welcome to Mrs. Sakala's class page. This page will be used to update activities and learning your child is participating in throughout the year. You will be able to view the class calendar as well as obtain additional information about what's happening in our classroom. | |
| 1 | KEEPING IN TOUCH with you:
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Each month a class calendar will be sent home with the activities for that month. The calendar can also be viewed on this class page. Additional information will be sent through the Diamond Path Pathways.
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"Pathways" which is Diamond Path's electronic mail list-service. By subscribing to Pathways, you will receive weekly mailings with timely news and information about our entire school. Click here to go to the Pathways Sign-up Page.
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| 2 | November Highlights: The excitement of learning continues in second grade. We are finishing up a lot of our first units and creating projects which show each student's learning. We created insects and habitats in science and had a chance to be creative. We went into the computer lab for our social studies projects and made a graphic organizer to show the important parts of a community. In writing, we published our first book and had an author's celebration to share our hard work. (See some of the pictures below.) In reading we have completed our unit on making connections and are in the process of making a class book to teach others how to use connections to be better readers. We also completed our first math assessment. It covered the essential learnings for the first part of our study of numbers. You can see the target goals in the essential learnings and check with your child to be sure they are on track. We also had a fun math night to help parents and students learn all the fun games you can play to help with number sense. It has been a month of great growth for many students and we are looking forward to even more!
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| 3 | GETTING IN TOUCH with me:
You can contact me in any of the following ways:
Electronic Mail - marilyn.sakala@district196.org
Front Office - call the school's main office (952-423-7695) and the front office staff will take a message for me. I will return your call as soon as I'm available.
Voice Mail - 651-683-6969, extension 95519
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Cycle Day Schedule for Students taking Spanish
Cycle Day 1: Music/Spanish
Cycle Day 2: Art
Cycle Day 3: Music/Spanish
Cycle Day 4: Spanish/PE
Cycle Day 5: X-Spanish/Enrichment
Cycle Day 6: PE/CC
Cycle Day Schedule for Students taking Chinese
Cycle Day 1: PE/Chinese
Cycle Day 2: Music/CC
Cycle Day 3: Art
Cycle Day 4: Music/Chinese
Cycle Day 5: PE/Chinese
Cycle Day 6: X-Chinese/Enrichment
For the most current and comprehensive listing of Diamond Path events,
visit the School Calendar page.
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| 5 | Areas of Focus for the First Trimester:
Language Arts
Setting Up Reader's and Writer's Workshops
Choosing Just Right Books
Using Schema to Make Connections
Making Mental Pictures from Author's Words
Writing Across Pages
Writing Small Moments
Math
Building Basic Facts
Using Strategies to Solve Problems: Putting together and taking apart
Building New and More Efficient Strategies
Building Numbers to 100
Counting and Using Money
Science
Inquiry about Insects
Inquiry about Earth Materials
Social Studies
Inquiry about Communities
Reading Maps
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Essential Learnings for Beginning Units
Math:
Students will…
write and solve addition facts with sums from 0 – 20.
write and solve subtraction facts using the numerals 0 – 20.
Use addition to show a number in 2 ways. (numbers 5 – 20)
Use subtraction to show a number 2 ways. (numbers 5 – 10)
Name a related fact to solve a problem.
Writing:
Students will:
see themselves as authors
understand how to tell a story with a beginning, middle and end.
be able to write a story with a beginning, middle and end.
add detail to a story using dialogue, thoughts and/or feelings.
revise and edit a story to make it easier for a reader to understand.
Reading:
Students will understand:
How connections create comprehension.
How life experiences impact comprehension and interpretation.
the three types of connections we use when reading.
if a connection is meaningful.
Science:
Students will know:
the observable characteristics of an insect.
how habitats meet the basic needs of living organisms.
the stages in the life cycle of an insect. (complete and incomplete metamorphosis)
Social Studies:
Students will know:
an individual’s responsibility to their community.
why people belong to a community.
how a persons choices and responsibilities connected to the well-being of a community.
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Class Pictures
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Celebrating and
Sharing Our Writing
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