Curriculum Bundles

Pflugerville ISD has been hard at work analyzing and breaking down our TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) into 3 week "bundles", for lack of a better word. The TEKS are our state mandated curriculum that teachers agree to teach when they sign their contract each year. I'm a TEKS fanatic. Now, I'm not the kind who can spout "Math 2.13B" off and know which TEKS that is exactly, but you can be sure that if I'm teaching it, it's a TEKS. The beauty of this bundling that our district has spent a great deal of time, money and energy on, is that the bundling breaks the TEKS down into managable, related chunks. This makes it easy to plan and implement since the TEKS can be overwhelming for even veteran teachers. It also takes a great deal of stress off teachers when they wonder, "Did I cover 2.7D?". (Well, maybe all teachers don't really wonder that, but I'm sure you understand my point.) It standardizes the curriculum throughout the district. If you move during the school year to another PISD school, your child's education will continue on track. If you ever have time, go to the Texas Education Association website and look at the TEKS for your child's grade level. Remember, there are about 14 TEKS (with A, B, C, and D) for each subject that we teach so you will need to look at the English Language Arts section, then scroll to the Math section, then Social Studies, Health, P.E. Art, Music, Science, etc. (It's actually a little scary all that we are responsible for but hey, teachers LIKE to live on the edge of sanity. ;) ) At any rate, I'm digressing... the point I was trying to make is that we have these neat little "bundles" for this next year that have been tied together into managble chunks by lots of people throughout our district including me and my friend, Elaine (we worked on Science), my friends Molly and Sara (who worked on Language Arts), and Katrina and Wendy (who worked on Math)....
The bundles and what we will be learning can be found on the Resources page of this website. We learn a lot of things in second grade! Be sure to check out what your child will be learning.