Dear Parents,

As you know, Cobb County schools are closed until further notice.  Addison’s 2^nd grade teachers have come up the following plan to assure you that your student continues to learn the 2^nd grade standards.

Each day at or before 9:00AM, that day’s assignments will be posted to Class Story in Dojo.  Teachers will be available for assistance through Dojo and email between 9:00 and 10:30 M-F.  Your child may need the following information to access the assignments. Cobb County’s policy is that students in K-2 have no more than a total of 1 hour of assignments per day.  Please feel free to supplement the daily assignments with math games through CoolMath or other online websites.

Most online textbook assignments will be accessed through Clever. Go to www.clever.com, click “Log in as a Student”, then “Log in Through Active Directory”.  There might be an “uh oh” message, but just click log in with a different account. Your child will need to log-in to their Office 360/Microsoft account that the school district has set up for them.  That username log-in is firstname.lastname@students.cobbk12.org  and the password is the student’s school password. We may be giving assignments in BrainpopJr, DreamBox, GA Studies Weekly, and the HMH GA Science textbooks through Clever.

Students who complete some of these daily assignments will earn Dojo points as we will be able to see who has completed them.

Other assignments may be given in Raz-Kids or the Cobb Digital Library where they can access PebbleGo and Bookflix, as well as other online digital resources.  Go to www.mackinvia.com, choose Addison Elementary and click log-in; then students will log-in using their student computer number (they almost all know this!) and their school password.

If you are in need of free internet, please see the following information:

Low-Cost or Free Internet Plans

Access by AT&T: A low-cost wireless home internet plan for low-income households. Access by AT&T provides high-speed internet service for $5-$10 per month. At least one person of your household should receive SSI or SNAP benefits to be qualified.

Go online:

https://www.att.com/shop/internet/access/#!/

OR

Call AT&T @  855.220.5211

Comcast Internet Essentials: Offers affordable home internet service for just $9.95 per month– with no contract, credit check or installation fees. You automatically qualify for the Internet Essentials package if your child participates in the school lunch program, you are receiving HUD housing assistance, a low-income senior, a community college student in Colorado or Illinois or a verified low-income veteran. You will also have the option to purchase a laptop or desktop computer for only $149.

Online: https://internetessentials.com/

Call : No direct number for this program; must login to enter phone number and receive a call from an agent

Spectrum Internet Assist- Provides affordable high-speed internet connection to low-income families, students and seniors for just $14.99 per month.

PCs for People: A nonprofit organization that provides low-cost computers and free or affordable internet connection for low-income households. Potential recipients must be living below the 200% poverty level and currently enrolled in a government assistance program. PC for people offers high-speed internet for only $11.25 per month with no credit check or hidden fees. You will also be eligible to receive affordable PC or laptop repair for as low $25.

Online: https://www.spectrum.com/browse/content/spectrum-internet-assist

Call : 1-855-243-8892

Sincerely,

Mrs. Burdett

Mrs. Hanson

Mrs. LeCroy

Mrs. Leith & Mrs. Keith

Mrs. Shore

Welcome to 2nd grade! I look forward to meeting you at Meet and Greet on Tuesday morning between 7:30-9:30 am. Don't forget to bring your school supplies with you!
This year I will be using Class Dojo for communication purposes, so be sure to sign up for it tomorrow during Meet and Greet. Classroom updates, reminders, and behavior notifications will all be done through this program.
I know we will have a great 2nd grade year together!

The past three weeks of 2nd grade have really flown by! We have spent a lot of time discussing classroom expectations, and setting up routines for our day. We are now ready to begin reading groups this week. We will be focusing on main idea and details. Students will be completing book check out on their own this year-each student has a different day they will go each week to return books. They may get two books at each check out, as long as they return their two previous books. We will be starting individual check out this week. In writing, we will begin our narrative writing unit.

We are continuing our place value unit in math-really focusing on understanding the value of each digit in a number, the many ways you can make a number (48 tens and 30 ones makes 78, as well as 20 tens and 58 ones, etc.), skip counting by 5, 10, 100 forwards and backwards from any given number between 1-1000, and comparing numbers.

We are finishing up our moon unit, and will begin our first social studies unit when we get back from labor day. We will be studying Georgia's five regions and seven rivers. We have some fun activities planned in the learning commons to show what we have learned about both of these topics!

Welcome Back!

Welcome to 2nd grade!

I am looking forward to meeting everyone Friday morning 7:30-9:30, July 28th for our Meet and Greet.

Please fill out this form with your contact information and any other important information you would like to share with me.


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I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing Spring break! It is hard to believe the 4th quarter is here and there is only a little bit of time left in 2nd grade! While the end of the year does bring on a lot of review skills, there will still be some more content that needs to be learned, so take a look and see what we have been doing and what we have left to do this year!

Students had a fun St. Patrick's Day where they got to complete different St. Patrick themed math and literacy centers for the day.

We had a yummy science lab treat to wrap up our space unit in the science lab. Oreo moon phases was one of their favorite science lab lessons this year!

We finished up our fairy tale, folktale, and fable unit and then moved on to comparing and contrasting in reading. We will be starting our cause and effect unit when we return from the break.

For writing, we finished up opinion writing, and will now be reviewing narrative and informational writing.

In math, students worked on solving money word problems with coins and bills, and needed to know how to use the dollar and cent sign correctly. We are now working on learning the attributes of 2d shapes (and a cube), and this week we will begin partitioning rectangles and circles into equal shares of halves, thirds, and fourths. After that, we will move into making simple arrays and then reviewing previous math standards and strategies.

This week we are finishing up learning about Jimmy Carter and will be moving onto our goods and services unit. Stay tuned for some information about another special 2nd grade day-Goods and Services Day! After that, our last unit in science will be studying life cycles.

That is pretty much it! I have about 2 more weeks left until my due date, so my last day of work is set for April 21st (unless baby Hanson comes early!). Ms. Pellegrini will be my supply teacher, so you will be hearing from her soon.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about anything!