2nd Grade Classes

Teachers: Ms. Topete-Gonzales, Ms. Gerbrandt, Ms. Flores

2024/25 2nd Grade School Year

Second Graders engaged in Engineering with Legos with Bricks4Kidz!

Second Graders Bricks4Kidz!

Citing Text Evidence in Ms. Flores Second Grade Classroom—they can do it with the support of models (I do, we do, you do)!

Citing Text Evidence in Ms. Flores Class

Practicing Weekly Assessments with Cooperative Learning and Vertical Charting in Mrs. Gerbrandt’s Classroom! High Student Engagement!

Cooperative Learning and Vertical Charting

Reading Decodable Text in Mrs. Gerbrandt’s classroom!

Students in Mrs. Gerbrandt’s classroom learn the correct mouth placement to make sounds during Foundational Skills lessons!

Look at all the ways to make the long I sound! Learning language is complex!

Students are citing text evidence in 2nd grade with Ms. Flores!

Showing our creativity in Mrs. Gerbrandt’s classroom!

Modeling with Manipulatives, partner-talk, questioning, clarifying, and student sharing make for big smiles and successful learning in Mrs. Gerbrandt’s 2^nd grade classroom!

Learning in Gerbrandt’s room

Math Tasks in Ms. Flores’ and Mrs. Gerbrandt’s 2^nd grade classrooms, followed by an assessment of learning on NextGenMath! Students used critical thinking skills and math models to make sense of the problem!

2nd grade classrooms

Writing in Ms. Flores Classroom! Students have notebooks with story elements and charts are posted from student shared writing, including sentence stems!

Second Grade Foundational Literacy in Mrs. TG’s classroom and Ms. Medina/Gerbrandt’s classroom!

Writing in Ms. Flores Classroom

Students have notebooks with story elements and charts are posted from student shared writing, including sentence stems!

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Second Grade Foundational Literacy in Mrs. TG’s classroom and Ms. Medina/Gerbrandt’s classroom

Topete's class

Medina teaching literacy

2023/24 2nd Grade School Year

2nd Grade goes to the ZOO!

2nd Grade Math in Mrs. TG’s classroom

with Models and Arrays and Individual Whiteboards to quickly Check-for-Understanding!

Code Week coding in the library

Weber’s class

Topete’s Class

Breaking News in Mrs. Topete-Gonzales’ Classroom—students shared their writing on habitats!

Palmer’s Class

Ms. Palmer’s students tracking and chorally reading aloud their Science textbook—high student engagement and joy for reading were evident!

Literacy in Weber’s class

Literacy in Action in Mrs. Weber’s Second Grade Classroom!

Math in Palmer’s class

More whiteboards during Math in Ms. Palmer’s Second Grade classroom—students were proud to show what they know!

Ms. Topete’s calming station