Second Grade Information
by Mary Gallagher
Welcome to
Second Grade
From the Conestoga Second Grade Teachers:
Mrs. Gallagher and Mrs. Heneger
We would like to welcome you to your Conestoga Second Grade and share with you some of the educational curriculum your second grader will study during this school year.
Our Reading program is published by Scott Forsman. Some of the students travel between the two second grade classrooms for reading so that individual learning and ability levels of the students can be met successfully. Second Grade students participate in the Conestoga AR Reading program which allows each child to experience reading at his or her individual reading level.
I am sure our
Second Grade parents have heard their child speaking such words as:
“breve, macron, the sneaky E, combinations”, and many more
terms. These terms are studied by our Second Graders using
the Saxon Phonics program. The second grade Saxon
Phonics program is a continuing and expanding program from the
student’s First Grade Saxon Phonics program.
Mrs. Heneger teaches the Saxon Phonics and Saxon
Spelling classes while Mrs. Gallagher teaches the Scott
Foresman Social Studies and Scott Foresman
Science classes. This allows the teachers to travel
between classrooms while the students remain in their own homeroom
for these classes.
Second Grade Handwriting is the Zaner
Bloser writing program.
Our English
curriculum is Write Away.
Saxon Math is our second
grade math program. The Saxon Math program is the math
curriculum used at Conestoga Schools in Kindergarten through the
eighth grade.
The students are
involved with variousArt projects throughout the school
year.
Current Events in
Second Grade is taught using the Scholastic
News.
In September our second graders were involved in the observation, caring for, feeding, and documentation for the metamorphosis process of the Painted Lady butterfly from the cocoon to the adult stage of this magical reformation. The children enjoyed this experience but were somewhat reluctant to release the adult butterfly for their trip to the south during our cold winter months.
During October through November our second graders will be studying the different Native American tribal heritages.
December and January study
units will consist of various topics, such as: winter
weather, dressing for the changing weather, weather safety, and
local and national holiday cultural traditions.
Addresses, mailing letters, and many other
activities will be studied during the month of
February.
March and April we will be studying the
changing weather.
May will be our final month in
school.
Thank
you for visiting our Conestoga Second Grade web page. Please
feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. Thank you
for your support and for caring about your student. Together we
will have a wonderful Second Grade school year.
