Please don't forget to bring in your donations for our Adopt-A-Family as well as the Pajama Program! Both boxes are labeled in the 2nd Grade pod! 

Thank you so much for your generosity! 

Adopt a Family

Please remember that you are always welcome to donate other items or change the quantity you feel a mom, 14 year old girl, 12 year old boy, or 4 month old baby girl would enjoy or need. 

Please use the provided link to sign up for donations for our family! Thank you so much for all your generosity in helping everyone in our community have a wonderful holiday season! 

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0C44AFAD22A1F85-adopt 

Upcoming Events!

*Monday November 23 is a FULL DAY

*AZ Opera Presentation: Monday November 23 from 2-2:45pm ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN IN THE MPR

*NO SCHOOL 11/25-11/29 Thanksgiving Break

*DIBELS testing December 1

*Winter DRA testing beginning the week of November 30 

*Adopt a Family- more information coming next week! 

Topics for November/December

Reading/Writing:

* Reading nonfiction text
*Learning how to use nonfiction text features
*Writing facts and questions as they are reading
*Writing friendly letters including all the parts
*Writing small moments 

Math:

*Reading and creating graphs (bar and pictographs)
*Solving "Situation of the Day" problems
*Focus on "Explaining our Thinking" orally and in writing
*Add and Subtract with and without regrouping
*Solve 100 subtraction facts in 5 minutes

Social Studies:

*Learn about the culture about the Native American, Colonists, and Pioneers
*Create a timeline of the cultures
*Learn about how we became America (brief look at the American Revolution)

Science:

*Body Systems- Digestive, Respiratory, Circulatory

Upcoming Events! 

Fire Safety Day- Monday 10/26 8:30-10:00am on the Big Field

PLEASE BRING A FOOD OR DRINK DONATION TO THANK THE RURAL METRO FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR HOSTING THIS ACTIVITY FOR OUR 2ND GRADERS! 

2nd Grade Musical- Tuesday 10/27 in the MPR @ 6pm

Halloween Parade- Students wear their costumes to school on Friday 10/30 and participate in a school wide parade on the big field at 8:15am

Halloween Party- Join us after the parade for some fun in our classroom until 9:25am

Canyon Boo!- Friday 10/30 from 6-8pm for some trick-or-treating fun!

Please sign up for a Parent/Teacher Conference 

It is mandatory I meet with each family for our fall conference. 

Conferences begin Friday Oct. 2- Oct. 14

Please use the link below to sign up and use the activation code. 

www.ptcfast.com/reg1

Code:  09S17754

September 14- October 2

Please remember that your child needs a 12" X 12" piece of cardboard to create their salt dough map of Arizona.  Students need to bring in their cardboard by Monday 9/21 so that we have time to get Arizona traced on them.  Students will then use them during class Tues.-Thurs. labeling them.  

FRIDAY SEPT. 25  we will be making our salt dough maps!  If you offered to make/bring in dough, please send it with your child to school Wed. Sept. 23.  Keep the dough refrigerated over night as it will spoil!  

If you would like to volunteer and help our class make their salt dough maps, everyone is welcome!  Our class will be making them on Friday Sept. 25 from 10:45am-11:20am. Please feel free to email me and let me know if you are able to make it! 

Language Arts:

• Book bags will continue to go home each week.  They are expected to return on Thursday will all the books and sight words if your child has them.  PLEASE have your child use a book bag book to complete his/her Reading Log each week.  
• We will continue to work on beginning and ending blends with 2-3 letters for phonics and spelling.
• Students will begin to make thoughtful connections to stories they are reading.  Students can make connections to events happening in the book or the way a character feels.  We will begin showing how we write and talk about those connections independently, in small groups, and whole class. 
• Students will continue to work on using correct language conventions consistently as well as begin their first personal narrative (small moment). They will go through the writing process and in time, publish their work on the computer.

Math

• Students will work on showing numbers in various ways (pictures, base 10 blocks, standard form, word form, and expanded form)
• Identify the value of each digit in 3 and 4 digit numbers
• Solve addition and subtraction word problems using different strategies and begin to explain their thinking, step by step, in writing.  
• We will begin our Geometry unit closer to the end of September

Social Studies

• We will finish up our geography unit with Arizona salt dough maps
• Compare and contrast urban and rural environments
• Identify our mayor, governor, and president

Reminders!

If you have any 12" X 12" pieces of cardboard we could greatly use them for when we make our Arizona salt dough maps at the end of the month! 

Please be sure to check your child's folder located in their binder each night.  Papers in the folder are graded that may or may not need to be corrected and returned.  Important notes from the office are also located in there too.  

Read Strong Parent Night- September 9 6-7pm in the Canyon View Library

What's Going on in the Classroom????

Language Arts:  

• Using correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar when we write
• Retell stories including all the key details from beginning, middle, and end
• Using blends to read and write new words

Math:

• Mentally add and subtract 10 from 2 and 3 digit numbers
• Solve 2 and 3 digit word problems using more than one strategy
• Counting combinations of coins up to $1
• Understanding the place value of each digit

Social Studies:

• Read and create maps
• Use alphanumeric maps
• Locate Tucson, Arizona, and the United States of America 
• Identify Arizona's  state symbols including the flag, bird, tree, and flower
• Draw and identify landforms
• Identify human and physical features on a map

If you haven't checked out our Canyon View website here is the link! You will find many helpful websites that we will be using in class! 

http://www.cfsd16.org/schools/canyonview/library.html

Here is a fun website we have been using in class to listen to stories! Students can listen to a variety of stories read by actors! 

http://www.storylineonline.net

2nd Grade Homework Schedule

In second grade homework for the week will always follow the same pattern. This way students and parents know what to expect each week.  

Monday:  Reading Log, Spelling, Book Bag

Tuesday:  Language Arts activity

Wednesday:  Math practice

Thursday:  Science/Social Studies (may be a language arts assignment if students need extra practice on a specific skill)

Friday: Nothing (please be sure students are working on their Reading Logs since they are due every Monday)

Due Dates for Assignments:

Reading Logs are due every Monday

Book Bags are due every Thursday

Spelling tests are every Friday

All other assignments, unless noted, are always due the next school day

Welcome 2nd Grade Families! 

This is our class blog where I will keep everyone up to date on current events, what is happening in the classroom, and links to helpful websites to use at home! 

We had a great first day!  Students are starting to learn routines and procedures, our classroom rules, and become independent.  Students have set up their binders which will go to and from school each day.  The first pocket of their binder will always be their homework for the night.  They also have a planner where they will record their homework every night, and a folder.  It is important to check their folder each night and empty it.  Graded work, work that needs to be corrected, and any notes or fliers from school will be in them.  

Students should have gone over their blue "Plan for Success" with you.  Students will take a plan home this week and next.  After the end of next week, only students who are struggling to follow our Coyote Code will receive a plan. I will mark the character pillar they struggled with and a brief explanation of the incident.  Please be sure to sign the plan that night and discuss with your child what happened.  

I am looking forward to a wonderful school year! 

Dear Parents,

Just wanted to remind you that Friday March 27 will be my last day before going on maternity leave as I am due Monday March 30. When students return from spring break, Hilary Woodhams, will officially take over until the end of the year.  

Hilary Woodhams has been student teaching in a second grade classroom at Sunrise Drive Elementary and is familiar with our district's standards and expectations.  Hilary is currently working on a letter introducing herself and it will also provide you with her email address so that you can contact her with any concerns or questions.  This letter will be sent home at the end of this week or beginning of next week.  Although I will be on maternity leave, I will still be informed on what is happening in the classroom and take part in big decisions that are made such as behavior, academics, and preparing for 3rd grade.  Hilary will be left with daily lesson plans and will be working closely with Joceyln Dubs and Mike Allie for the last 7 weeks of school.  She has come in a few times and has met our class and is excited to start!

Thank you all so much for all of your support and understanding.  I have had such a great time working and getting to know each of my students this year and I'm sad that I will not be finishing the year with them as we have many fun and exciting projects to come!

Sincerely,

Laura Kupper

Upcoming Events

Field Trip to the Desert Museum:  Monday March 9 from 8:15-2:30pm

PLEASE be sure to complete the last 2 pages in the field trip packet and return to school by Friday March 6th so that your child can join us! 

If you are interested in coming, please know that you will need to meet us at the museum since there is only enough room on the bus for 6 parents 

Rodeo Break:  Thursday 2/26 & Friday 2/27

Monday March 9 is a FULL DAY of school

Friday March 13 is a HALF DAY dismissal is at 11:30 due to spring parent/teacher conferences

Our class will be going to the Book Fair on Thursday 2/12 from 1:00-1:30 before our library time.  If you would like to send your child with money to purchase books please do so on Thursday.  Thank you! 

Mrs. Kupper's Class Valentine's Day Party! 

When: Friday February 13th

Time:  12:30-1:30pm

     Where:  Mrs. Kupper's classroom

Please use the link below to sign up to help and/or bring in treats!  Thanks! 

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D49ABA92DA3FF2-mrs/10476654

2nd Grade Puppet Show 

Parents please remember that your child's puppet show is 

Thursday January 22 from 8:15-9:15am in the  1st Grade Pod!

Hope to see you there! 

I hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable winter break! 

This trimester brings a lot of fun events for our second graders beginning with Ms. Gwen our puppeteer next Monday (1/12/15)!  Ms. Gwen will be working with our students for a little over a week creating their very own sock puppet!  Students will not only decorate their own puppet but they will also have a chance to use their creativity and imagination to bring their puppet to life in a special puppet show.  

If you have any extra toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls cut in half, we would greatly appreciate them as each second grader will need one to create their puppet.  The date and time of each class puppet show will be determined soon.  

I look forward to seeing you all soon at our class puppet show!