We've been working really hard on our fluency this week in shared reading. We read a realistic fiction big book, Don't Forget Fun. While reading this story, we practiced chunking groups of words, heeding the author's punctuation clues, and reading with intonation. We continued to learn about action verbs in the past tense as well as the short i sound in phonics. Every Friday your child will take a short, five question shared reading quiz. The quiz will consist of strategies we worked on during the week and comprehension questions from the book. I will do my best to get these graded and sent home on Friday afternoon, but sometimes things come up during my lunch/plan time and I will have to wait to grade them until the weekend. Please be watching your child's folder ("left at home" side) for these graded quizzes.
One of our second grade math goals is automaticity with addition and subtraction facts (two seconds per problem). By the end of the year, all students should demonstrate automaticity with subtraction facts 0-9 and addition facts 0-9. We will progress monitor this goal weekly here at school. Every Friday the kids will take a timed addition and timed subtraction test. We will then take the scores of both tests and graph them on individual student graphs. Your child will be fully responsible for monitoring the progress of his/her facts. You will see the graded tests come home each week (most likely Monday or Tuesday) and your child's individual growth graph at conferences. We will be practicing our math facts daily here at school, but it's a good idea to practice at home, too. Most dollar stores sell flash cards or they can easily be created with paper and a marker. Let's work together to ensure your child successfully reaches this math goal!
I want to remind you again that homework will be starting next week. The format is as follows: Monday Math, Totally Sight Word Tuesday, Writing Wednesday, Thinking Thursday (reading response). I will send home a homework sheet at the start of every week. One side will have the assignments listed for the week and the other will have daily behavior. Remember that all homework, except Monday Math, should be completed in your child's homework spiral notebook. Also, if your child had a yellow or orange day, please sign his/her behavior chart. In addition to the weekly homework sheet, I will also send an optional monthly homework calendar. The September calendar will be coming home Tuesday. The back side of the calendar has the required monthly reading log. Your child will need to read for twenty minutes a day and record his/her books on the log.
If you haven't signed up for Remind101 yet, please do so. This is the easiest way for me to keep you informed. If you do not want the text messages sent to your phone, you can have the same reminders sent via email instead. For text messages, please text @weber02 to the number 814.201.5236. For email reminders, send an email to weber02@mail.remind101.com and leave the subject and body blank. Of our 31 students, only 18 families have signed up. I don't want you to miss out on any important reminders!
I will be sending home a copy of our class directory today. Please keep this as a reference to use throughout the school year. Per the handbook, birthday invitations cannot be handed out at school unless you have one for each member of the class. Instead, I encourage you to use the class directory and mail the invitations. You can also use the directory phone numbers to make arrangements for play dates. PLEASE, do not use the directory for business or advertising purposes.
Our PTO sent home information yesterday regarding the upcoming Halloween party. We need four volunteers to help out in the classroom and several families to provide donations. If you're able to volunteer or donate, please complete the white Halloween form and return back to school in your child's folder.
I hope you will all mark your calendars for our upcoming Ice Cream Social. This fun, family event will take place on Friday, September 13th from 5:30-7:30 in our school gym. This will be a night you won't want to miss!
I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who completed the yellow Highlights order form. I can't believe how many responsible second graders were able to get their families to complete the form! :) Highlights will be sending our classroom FREE supplies just for returning the completed slips. I love free stickers and other school supplies, so thank you!
I also wanted to thank those of you who donated supplies to our classroom pantry. We can never have enough plastic silverware, paper towels, Clorox wipes, or hand sanitizer. The kids were pretty excited about the mega pack of construction paper and the fun patterned Duct tape, too! I'm so thankful for your generous donations.
I can't believe it's already Labor Day Weekend...hello September! I hope you all enjoy the holiday and the extra time with your family. Mr. Weber and I will be busy running through the sprinkler, playing at the park, and snuggling our precious baby boy, Keaton. In between all that excitement, I will be checking emails; feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
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