Welcome back! Greetings Haigh School Second Grade Families! I hope you and your family are doing well and you are safe! Although the beginning of this school year will be different than any in the past, all of us at Haigh School are anxious to welcome you back to school!
Please view the slides below. They may answer some questions about the start of the school year. I will also go through it when we meet this week and you pick up supplies for your child. There are no Zoom meetings this week. It is a Meet And Greet The Teacher Week. Please make sure you have signed up for a time to Meet The Teacher on Sign Up Genius. The link is in the welcome back letter that was sent to you on Friday. I am so excited to meet my second grade students and parents!
Zoom Meetings will begin on Tuesday, September 8th
Juliann Strzykalski is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. We will be using the Zoom Link below for all our Zoom meetings. They will begin on September 8th at 9:00 am.
Please do not forget to join us for our “Haigh Last Day of School Drive-Thru”!!! This final chance to see your Haigh classroom , specials, and support teachers is taking place this Thursday from 10:00am-11:30am. We have definitely missed our owls and hope that you are able to come by to see us before Summer officially begins! K-2 families please use the Silvery Lane Drop Off Lane, 3rd-5th grade families please use the Coburn Drop Off Lane. Families that need to pick up medication, please stop by the staff parking lot behind Haigh. Please see the link below that provides more details about the event. For everyone’s safety we do ask that you stay in your car during the drive-thru. We look forward to seeing those that can make it!
Our school district would like your feedback on the upcoming school year. When possible, please complete the survey below. This will provide our district office with background information that will be helpful when planning for next year. Thank you for your help and time 🙂
Important Reminders For This Week To Finish Up Our School Year:
FINAL HAIGH DRIVE THROUGH!!! STOP BY AND SAY HELLO TO THE HAIGH STAFF BEFORE OUR SUMMER BREAK BEGINS!!! When: June 11th, 2020 What time?- 10:00am-11:30am Locations:K-2 Teachers/Specials/and Support Staff will be at the Silvery Lane Drop Off Lane3-5 Teachers/Specials/and Support Staff will be at the Coburn Drop Off Lane.
***IMPORTANT- THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WILL ALSO BE PASSED OUT***Student belongings and resources (desks and locker items from this year)Student Year Books( for those that purchased)5th grade certificatesMedication-Nurse Conn will be at Haigh to pass out student medications from this school year. She will be on Robindale near the staff parking lot. Returning items- see directions below for classroom books, library books, and safety belts. Students who borrowed chromebooks can hold on to them until the Fall. TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE, WE WILL ONCE AGAIN USE THE DIRECTIONS BELOW: Steps for pick up: For maximum protection we will be placing your students’ resources in a brown bag labeled with their First Name, Last Name, grade level and Teacher. Pick-up will be a drive through service. Grades K-1-2 will pick up using the Silvery Lane drop off lane. Grades 3-4-5 will pick up using the Coburn drop off lane. Parents please place a sign in your passenger window with the names of your student(s)(First Name, Last Name, Grade Level and Teacher. When you pull up to the grade level station, we will then place the brown bag of resources into your trunk and you will be all set 🙂 Returning Haigh Items-We will have bins set up for safety belts, classroom books, library books, etc..Please place items in a clear/plastic bag that is labeled with the classroom teacher’s name or library. ***These items can be placed in your trunk and we will take out while placing your students brown bag of resources. ***Following these steps will keep everyone safe and healthy, thank you for your help and cooperation 🙂
4th Card Marking Report Cards
– Friday, June 5th, 2020 was the last day for assignments to be turned in for the 4th card marking. Report cards will be available online through your parent connect account and will also be mailed home during the week of June 15th- 19th. As a reminder, grades will look different for this report card. Your student will receive a grade of Meeting(M), Progressing(P), or Limited Participation(LP) for the different content standards and specials that were practiced. Life skills and other observations will not be graded due to not being in person for instruction and observations.
Summer Content Practice
-Please continue to have your Haigh students practice content over the Summer. Summer practice items can be found on our Haigh Website under Haigh Content Practice:click here . It is very important to have your students keep up with their Reading, Writing, and Math to prevent a Summer Slide with their academics. The following websites will also be available over the Summer for our Haigh Students: RAZ kids, Reading Eggs, Math Seeds, I-Ready, and Brainpop. Log in information will remain the same until the Fall School Year begins.
Fun Activities For This Week:
Design An End Of The Year Poster filled with good wishes for a safe summer for friends and teachers. Bring it with you on Thursday.
Write about Your Favorite Memory or your Favorite Thing You Learned This Year in Second Grade and bring it with you on Thursday or email it to me.
I hope to see you all on Thursday, June 11th from 10:00-11:30 am- Our Last Day of School!
I hope all my second grade friends are enjoying the nice weather and sunshine. Summer will be here soon and so will report cards! Thank you for keeping up with your remote learning assignments each week. I know you will be ready for third grade!
Spelling Words-Pattern: Homophones
List Words: bear, bare, sun, son, write, right, week, weak, hair, hare, here, hear, blue, blew, sail, sale
Please do the activities on the assignment sheet. Send me the score or test on Friday (16 words)
Please look at the chart below for this week’s lessons. All the lessons that I give you will be monitored throughout the week online by Miss Strzykalski.
By the end of the week you should have completed the following assignments to receive a meeting grade for the week. Any other written notes taken during the week do not need to be turned in.
1. 75 minutes of I Ready ( I will monitor lessons online)
2. 3 Zearn Lessons (I will monitor lessons online)
3. Reading 15 minutes a day on Epic, which can include videos or 4 books assigned for Science or Social Studies located on the Epic site. They are found in the students mailbox at the top of the home page on Epic. ( I will monitor the books and time online)
4. A spelling test score (send score via email)
5. Writing -An opinion paper-In your opinion, Do you like learning from home or learning at school better?
6. Science Mystery Project-Building a Birdhouse – Photo of the birdhouse you built and the sentences about it. (See Thursday’s Science lesson for sentence starters.)
Additional Resources:
Readworks: https:// www.readwoks.org. Readworks Class Code C3MZ3B password:1234
Epic Books: https:// www.getepic.com/students Class Code ztk2367
Zearn: www.zearn.org Students know their passwords ( if they forgot what they are let me know and I will email you their password)
iReady: https:// dearbornschools.org/ student-portal/ Must log into Clever user name, student #, password student birthday
Miss Strzykalski’s phone # is 313-204-7871 Office hours are 8:30-3:30
Miss Strzykalski’s email is strzykj@dearbornschools.org
Keep up the good work! This school year is quickly coming to an end. Please communicate with me if you are having difficulties completing the assigned work or if I can do anything to help you in anyway.
Happy Memorial Day to all my second grade friends! I hope you are enjoying the sunshine with your family. You are all continuing to work hard. Keep up the good work. Summer will be here soon!
A Big Thank You!
A big thank you to all the second grade parents and students who came to pick up resources last week. It was nice to say hello and see some of you again. It put a smile on all our faces.
Please do all the activities on the assignment chart. Send me the score on Friday. (15 words)
Please look at the chart below for this weeks lessons. All the lessons that I give you will be monitored online throughout the week by Miss Strzykalski.
By the end of the week, you should have completed the following assignments to receive a meeting grade for the week. Any other notes do not need to be turned in.
1. 60 minutes of I Ready (I will monitor online)
2. 2 Zearn lessons (I will monitor online)
3. Reading 15 minutes a day on Epic which can include videos and the 4 books assigned for Science or Social Studies located on the Epic site. They are found in the students mailbox at the top of the home page on Epic. (I will monitor the books online)
4. A spelling test score (send via email)
5. Writing– An opinion piece- Should the use of electronics have a one hour a day time limit?
6. Social Studies- From your reading this week send your answers to your 3 questions.
Additional Resources:
Readworks: https:// www.readwoks.org. Readworks Class Code C3MZ3B password:1234
Epic Books: https:// www.getepic.com/students Class Code ztk2367
Zearn: www.zearn.org Students know their passwords ( if they forgot what they are let me know and I will email you their password)
iReady: https:// dearbornschools.org/ student-portal/ Must log into Clever user name, student #, password student birthday
Miss Strzykalski’s phone # is 313-204-7871 Office hours are 8:30-3:30
Miss Strzykalski’s email is strzykj@dearbornschools.org
I hope everyone has another great week of remote learning! Stay cool on the warm days ahead this week. Please communicate with me if you are having difficulties completing the assigned work or if I can do anything to help you in anyway.
To all my second grade friends you are doing a great job! I loved reading your informational papers this week on the life cycle of a butterfly and I see that you have learned a lot from all the books that you have read. Our class has read 520 books on Epic! You are all star readers! I hope we see some of the beautiful butterflies that you read about in our gardens soon!
Friendly Reminders For This Week:
There will be Student Resource and Belonging Pick up days this week Tuesday, May19th and Wednesday May 20th from 1:00-3:00 pm. Please come to pick up students resources and belongings that were left in their lockers and desks. A grade level representative will be on site to hand you your students resources and belongings that were placed in bags and labeled with their name, teacher’s name, and grade. Grade 2 will pick up using the Silvery Lane drop off lane. If possible, please bring back students’ book bags with any reading group books or library books that they may still have in them so they may be returned to the book room and library before the end of the school year. Your help is greatly appreciated! See Mr. Short’s letter to the community for more details.
Special Area Teachers and Assignments
Please make sure you are checking the special area teachers blogs for their weekly assignments and following their directions on how to complete them. The links to their blogs are listed in the Additional Information Section below.
Please do the activities on the assignment chart. Send me the score on Friday. (15 words)
Please look at the chart below for this weeks lessons. All the lessons that I give you will be monitored throughout the week online by Miss Strzykalski.
By the end of the week, you should have completed the following assignments to receive a meeting grade for the week. Any other written notes do not need to be turned in.
60 minutes of I Ready (I will monitor online)
2 Zearn Lessons (I will monitor on line)
Reading 15 minutes a day on Epic, which can include videos and the 4 books assigned for science or social studies located on the Epic site. They are found in the students mailbox at the top of the home page on Epic. ( I will monitor the books and time online.)
A spelling test score (send score via email)
Writing- An informational paper-Why Do We Celebrate Memorial Day? (send via email)
Science-Why Do Frogs Say Ribbit? (Friday’s lesson, send via email)
Additional Resources:
Readworks: https:// www.readwoks.org. Readworks Class Code C3MZ3B password:1234
Epic Books: https:// www.getepic.com/students Class Code ztk2367
Zearn: www.zearn.org Students know their passwords ( if they forgot what they are let me know and I will email you their password)
iReady: https:// dearbornschools.org/ student-portal/ Must log into Clever user name, student #, password student birthday
Miss Strzykalski’s phone # is 313-204-7871 Office hours are 8:30-3:30
Miss Strzykalski’s email is strzykj@dearbornschools.org
I hope everyone has another great week! Enjoy the sunshine. I hope to see you on Tuesday or Wednesday on the two pick up days. Happy Memorial Day! Stay safe and well and as always I thank you for all your support and hard work! Please communicate with me if you are having difficulties completing the assigned work or if I can do anything to help you in anyway!
To all my second grade friends, you have completed another great week of remote learning! Keep up the great work! You did an awesome job writing about your mothers and about how special they are to you. I wish all my second grade mothers a very Happy Mother’s Day!
A Big Thank You!
Thank you to all my second grade friends and parents who shared such kind words and thoughts during teacher appreciation week. You truly warmed my heart and I appreciate all of you and all your hard work!
Friendly Reminders For This Week:
There will be Student Resource and Belonging Pick up days this week Thursday May14th and Friday May 15th from 1:00-3:00 pm. Please come to pick up students resources and belongings that were left in their lockers and desks. A grade level representative will be on site to hand you your students resources and belongings that were placed in bags and labeled with their name, teacher’s name, and grade. Grade 2 will pick up using the Silvery Lane drop off lane. If possible, please bring back students’ book bags with any reading group books or library books that they may still have in them so they may be returned to the book room and library before the end of the school year. Your help is greatly appreciated! See Mr. Short’s letter to the community for more details.
Special Area Teachers and Assignments
Please make sure you are checking the special area teachers blogs for their weekly assignments and following their directions on how to complete them. The links to their blogs are listed in the Additional Information Section below.
Spelling Words Week 31: Pattern: Irregular Plural nouns
Please do the two activities on the assignment chart. Send me the score or test on Friday. (15 words)
Please look at the chart below for this week’s lessons. All the lessons that I give you will be monitored throughout the week online by Miss Strzykalski.
By the end of the week, you should have completed the following assignments to receive a meeting grade for the week. Any other written notes do not need to be turned in.
75 minutes of I Ready (I will monitor online)
3 Zearn Lessons (I will monitor on line)
Reading 15 minutes a day on Epic, which can include videos and the 4 books assigned for science or social studies located on the Epic site. They are found in the students mailbox at the top of the home page on Epic. ( I will monitor the books and time online.)
A spelling test score (send score via email)
Writing- An informational paper-The Lifecycle of a Butterfly (send via email)
Social Studies-Ox Cart Man questions (Friday’s lesson, send via email)
Additional Resources:
Readworks: https:// www.readwoks.org. Readworks Class Code C3MZ3B password:1234
Epic Books: https:// www.getepic.com/students Class Code ztk2367
Zearn: www.zearn.org Students know their passwords ( if they forgot what they are let me know and I will email you their password)
iReady: https:// dearbornschools.org/ student-portal/ Must log into Clever user name, student #, password student birthday
Miss Strzykalski’s phone # is 313-204-7871 Office hours are 8:30-3:30
Miss Strzykalski’s email is strzykj@dearbornschools.org
I hope everyone has another wonderful week of learning! Keep doing your best! I hope to see you on Thursday or Friday on the two pick up days. Stay safe and well and as always I thank you for all your support and hard work! Please communicate with me if you are having difficulties completing the assigned work or if I can do anything to help you in anyway!
To all my second grade friends, you are doing a great job on your remote learning assignments!. Keep up the good work this week. Make sure you are also going outside and enjoying the nice weather. In your opinion writing about your favorite season last week, most of you picked spring as your favorite season of all!
A Big Thank you!
To all of our second grade families and friends who picked up chrome books and resources to help with remote learning. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Spelling Words Week 30: Pattern: Plurals (x, h) -es
Please do the two activities on the assignment chart. Send me the score or test on Friday. (15 words)
Please look at the chart below for this week’s lessons. All the lessons that I give you will be monitored throughout the week online by Miss Strzykalski.
By the end of the week, you should have completed the following assignments to receive a meeting grade for the week. Any other written notes do not need to be turned in.
1. 75 minutes of I Ready (I will monitor online)
2. 3 Zearn Lessons (I will monitor online)
3. Reading 15 minutes a day on Epic, which can include videos and the 4 books assigned for Science or Social Studies located on the Epic site. They are found in the students mailbox at the top of the home page on Epic. ( I will monitor the books and time on line)
4.A spelling test score (send score via email)
5. Writing-A narrative paper about a special time you had with mom (send via email)
6. Science-Classifying Animals- Friday’s science paper (send via email)
Additional Resources:
Readworks: https:// www.readwoks.org. Readworks Class Code C3MZ3B password:1234
Epic Books: https:// www.getepic.com/students Class Code ztk2367
Zearn: www.zearn.org Students know their passwords ( if they forgot what they are let me know and I will email you their password)
iReady: https:// dearbornschools.org/ student-portal/ Must log into Clever user name, student #, password student birthday
Miss Strzykalski’s phone # is 313-204-7871 Office hours are 8:30-3:30
Miss Strzykalski’s email is strzykj@dearbornschools.org
I hope everyone has another great week of remote learning! We will all keep doing our best working together, to make learning fun and challenging so our second grade friends are ready for third grade. Please communicate with me if you are having difficulties completing the assigned work or if I can do anything to help you in anyway!
Thank you to all my second grade students for doing such a great job on your assignments this week and to all your family members who are supporting your learning. You are all awesome!
Friendly Reminders For This Week:
There will be a chrome book pick up day on Monday, April 27th, from 1:00-3:30 pm. Please make sure to fill out the technology survey if you need a chrome book to use at home. Pick up will be a drive through service. Grade 2 will pick up using the Silvery Lane drop off lane. A parent will be asked to sign for the chrome book on the provided form. (See Mr. Short’s Letter to the Community for more details)
There will be a student resource pick up day on Friday, May 1st, from 1:00-3:00 pm. There will be a few resources there you may choose to pick up to help support your child’s learning. (Eureka Module math books, Common Core I Ready book). These resources are not required to do weekly assignments, just offered as support. Pick up will be a drive through service. A grade level representative will be on site to hand you your students’ resources. Grade 2 will pick up using the Silvery Lane drop off lane. (See Mr. Short’s Letter to the Community for more details)
Steps to log into Google and Clever as a student to access I Ready at home
By the end of the week you should have completed the following assignments to receive a meeting grade for the week. Any other written notes taken during the week do not need to be turned in.
75 minutes of I Ready (I will monitor online)
3 Zearn lessons (I will monitor the lessons online)
Reading 15 minutes a day on Epic, which can include videos or 4 books assigned for Science or Social Studies located on the Epic site. They are found in the students mailbox at the top of the home page on Epic. (I will monitor the books and time on line)
A spelling test score (send score via email)
Writing-An Opinion paper about your favorite season. The spelling score and the photo of the final writing can be sent to me via email
Additional Resources:
Readworks: https:// www.readwoks.org. Readworks Class Code C3MZ3B password:1234
Epic Books: https:// www.getepic.com/students Class Code ztk2367
Zearn: www.zearn.org Students know their passwords ( if they forgot what they are let me know and I will email you their password)
iReady: https:// dearbornschools.org/ student-portal/ Must log into Clever user name, student #, password student birthday
Miss Strzykalski’s phone # is 313-204-7871 Office hours are 8:30-3:30
Miss Strzykalski’s email is strzykj@dearbornschools.org
Keep up the great work this week! We are all partners in learning and here to support the children. Please communicate with me if you are having difficulties completing the assigned work or if I can do anything to help you in anyway!
Hello to all my second grade friends and families! We are now entering into the 4th semester of our second grade learning at home classroom! We have spent the last 5 weeks getting used to the at home learning tools and exploring interesting sites. We have set goals and you have been trying so hard, with the help of your family to make sure you are ready for third grade! I hope you are enjoying the learning so far. You are doing a great job!
This week we are given new requirements from our administrators, but you will notice that you have doing most of the things already! The new assignments will be graded each week and you will be given a grade for the fourth card marking period using these grades. These grades will be recorded as Meeting, doing all of the assigned work, Progressing, doing most of the assignments, and Limited Participation, rarely or not doing any of the assignments.
The assignments will be very specific, so you need to do everything on the list. If you want to use any of the other sites from previous weeks, they are still there as enrichment, but you will receive grades based only on what is assigned to you each week.
You will still be doing 2 hours (25 minutes a day) on I Ready, Zearn math- 3 lessons per week (because of the length of each lesson), and Reading Epic books on line for 15 minutes a day. Science or Social studies will be covered in books and videos that I assign to students on Read Works or Epic. (The time spent on them will be counted in the 15 minutes of reading each day.) The assigned books and videos will be found in the mailbox at the top of the Epic home page once you log into Epic. The books often come with a short quiz after reading, so remember to take the quiz and press finished to receive credit. I still have a few students who have not accepted the invitation to join EPIC by email. You can also access it using the class code below if necessary.
Spelling Words Week 28: Pattern: ore, oar Mystery Words are : more, pore, soar, store, boar
Please do the 2 activities on the assignment chart. Send me only the score from the spelling test on Friday. (15 words)
Writing: A new writing assignment will be given every week and you can send me a photo of your child’s writing with their spelling score in the same email.
Please look at the chart below for this week’s lessons. All the lessons that I give you will be monitored throughout the week online by Miss Strzykalski.
By the end of the week, you should have completed the following assignments to receive a meeting grade for the week. Any other written notes taken during the week do not need to be turned in.
1. 2 hours (120) minutes of I Ready (I will monitor online)
2. 3 Zearn lessons ( I will monitor the lessons online)
3. Reading 15 minutes a day on Epic, which includes the 2 videos and 4 books assigned for Science or Social Studies located on the Epic site. They are found in the students mailbox at the top of the home page on Epic. ( I will monitor the books and time on line)
4. A spelling test score (send score via email )
5. Writing-An informational paper about Earth Day. The spelling score and the photo of the final writing can be sent to me via email
Additional Information:
Readworks: https:// www.readwoks.org. Readworks Class Code C3MZ3B password:1234
Epic Books: https:// www.getepic.com/students Class Code ztk2367
Zearn: www.zearn.org Students know their passwords ( if they forgot what they are let me know and I will email you their password)
iReady: https:// dearbornschools.org/ student-portal/ Must log into Clever user name, student #, password student birthday
Miss Strzykalski’s phone # is 313-204-7871 Office hours are 8:30-3:30
Miss Strzykalski’s email is strzykj@dearbornschools.org
I know that these are challenging times for us all! We will all do our best, including myself, to keep learning alive in our children. Please communicate with me if you are having difficulties completing the assigned work or if I can do anything to help you in anyway!
