News & Notes for the Week of April 8th
Spelling Please click on the link below to access our weekly spelling list on Spelling City! List #25: Short Vowel Digraphs Lunch Menu Please click on the link below to access the monthly lunch menu. Lunch Menu | Dates to Remember Friday, April 19th & Monday, April 22nd: No School, Good Friday & Easter Monday Monday, April 29th: NWEA Reading Test @11:30am Wednesday, May 1st: NWEA Math Test @11:30am Friday, May 3rd: End of Year Math Assessment @8:30am Early Dismissal at 11:08am Friday, May 10th: Second Grade Field Trip |
We're Learning so Much...It's Scary!
Here's What's Happening in Second Grade!
Here are a few things you can do at home to reinforce our learning:
1. Continue reading for at least 20 minutes per night! It's so important to continue to build that reading stamina and allow your child to read material that interests them!
2. Take a few minutes to talk to your child about what he or she is reading. Ask them to tell you about what they read. Does it remind them of another story they have read? Does it remind them of something that has happened in their own life? Can you identify the characters in the story and discuss how the characters feel or act? What does the character look like or say?
Our story for this week is Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream by Deloris Jordan. We'll be learning about and researching Michael Jordan and his hoop dreams. We'll also learn about how his mother and father shared with him the lessons of patience, determination, and hard work.
The kids are so excited about our math time for the remainder of the year because we finally get to dive into multiplication and division! I will introduce multiplication this week with the concept of repeated addition and equal groups. This is a great reminder of WHY it is important for us to know our addition and subtraction facts by memory! We will be using those addition facts and our skip-counting skills to understand multiplication. I strongly recommend having your child continue to practice his or her addition and subtraction facts daily over the summer so that they are ready to hit the ground running in third grade.