Welcome to Mrs. Ayres' 2nd Grade!

Kim Ayres

e-mail: kayres@rrps.net

phone: (505) 338-2320, ext. 127

Welcome to what I’m sure is going to be a great school year! I enjoyed getting to meet so many of you during assessments last week! Our class is full of so many wonderful students. I know we will all learn a lot from each other.

Here are some of the things we are studying in the 1st quarter:

 

Math: We are starting the year with a review of place value and number sense. We will then work on a systematic approach to problem solving. Other skills we will work on throughout the year include: telling time, counting money, addition and subtraction, and geometry.

Language Arts: We are starting a new phonics curriculum this year. We will spend a great deal of time working with words and how they are formed. This will help us all with our spelling and reading skills. There will usually be 5-8 spelling words per week and they will come from our Working with Words lessons in class.

We are reading a variety of stories to help us gain an understanding of fiction and nonfiction. We will also learn to identify different story elements including characters, setting and plot.

Science: We are studying change this quarter. We are exploring different things that change including the moon, the seasons and mixtures.

 

Social Studies: During this quarter we will be studying groups, their leaders and their rules. We will also work on basic map skills.

During the year we will also participate in a Postcard Exchange with classes from across the United States so that we can learn about other states. This should begin in October.

Bilingual Enrichment: We are very lucky to have Bilingual Enrichment in our classroom. Sra. Padilla will come to our class 4 times a week to teach a lesson on Spanish language and Culture. We will start the year learning some basic conversational Spanish and vocabulary for things, places and people around our school.