Phonics
I utilize Orton-Gillingham (OG) Multisensory Phonics Instruction to help my students achieve phonemic achievement. OG is a multisensory teaching approach that was designed to help struggling readers. This approach uses sight, hearing, touch, and movement to help students connect language with letters and words. It explicitly teaches the connections between letters and sounds by breaking reading and spelling down into smaller skills, and then building on these skills over time.

Reading
In our first unit of study, students will become familiar with the routines of the reading workshop, and learn how to build stamina and independence to grow ideas.

Math

2nd Grade Math students are learning the following skills:

• developing fact strategies

• relating addition and subtraction

• counting strategies for subtraction

• "What's My Rule?"

• using 10 as a friendly number

3rd Grade Math students are learning the following skills:

• use a variety of math tools to solve problems

• tell time to the nearest minute

• use mathematical models to calculate elapsed time

• foundation for developing multiplication and division strategies