Hello Families! We have come upon the end of the third quarter and the beginning of spring. It is truly amazing how fast time flies (I especially notice now having a 7 month old!) Here is what we have been working on in school:
Reading: We continue to practice skills that good readers use: finding the main idea, and now we are even inferring (using clues from the book to draw conclusions- it's also predicting) This is a tough skill, but the kids are doing a beautiful job. Ask your child to make an inference when you read with him/her.
Math: We took our Unit 9: Measurement test on Tuesday. We have now started a unit on decimal points and money. Thank you for helping your child with their home links every night! Remember the answers to all the links are in the parent letter at the beginning of the packet!
Keep Practicing those math facts! It is a second grade goal to improve the test scores by 5 problems every month. By May, students are expected to score 51 out of 80 in both addition and subtraction for proficiency. Flash cards and computer games are great tools to use for practice!
Keyboarding: We took our first keyboarding assessment. Keyboarding is a standard that will be assessed on third quarters report card. A note was sent home earlier in the week asking you to please remind your child to use the "online" position to type. The district expectations fro proficiency are at least 90% accuracy with at least 9WPM (words per minutes)
Writing: We are just finishing publishing our How To books. The kids are creating slideshows in KidPix. I will post the slideshows on the website hopefully by spring break! Next month we will begin our poetry unit.
Science/Social Studies: We will begin a new science unit on Air and Weather next week. To help support the unit, talk with your child about the days weather- temperature, forcast. In social studies we have begun our last unit on Communities. We have discussed what a good citizen is and will soon study the similarities and differences between urban, suburban and rural communities.
Other: Our talent show two weeks ago was a blast. The kids earned this reward by filling up our class pebble jar. Our field trip to see Stellaluna yesterday was very fun. Thank you to our chaperones for volunteering their time.
Reminders:
No School Monday March 30
Conferences Tuesday March 31, Wednesday April 1st and Friday PM April 3rd
Students are released at 11:30 on Friday April 3rd
Scholastic Book Orders were due today- you can still order online tomorrow
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