If you have yet to sign up on Bloomz, please do so asap. I will use this throughout the year to communicate with parents along with the blog. I also use Bloomz for Parent Teacher Conferences sign ups. – Bloomz App
The following link is a short survey to help me get to know your child better. Please take a few moments to fill it out, if you already have done so- THANK YOU. – Parent Survey
Additionally, the follow link is for ways you can meet your required volunteer hours throughout the school year. Please fill out this link as well: VolunteerForm
We have a volunteer opportunity that has presented itself as our new desks will be delivered Monday afternoon. I am looking for a few parent volunteers that would be willing and able with a cordless screwdriver in hand to help put together our desks for our classroom. As well as, hauling the other desks to the gym for pick up. As I have a scheduled medical procedure Monday and will not be at school, I will be asking volunteers to come in Tuesday-Friday to help. Please email me if you would be able to assist putting desks together.
- Monday: LIBRARY DAY
- FRIDAY: Bring back orange take home folders with passages
- UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
- Sept. 5 – Labor Day – No School
- Sat. Sept. 24th- Chalk Art Festival. The Chalk Art Contest will be held at West Haven’s Evening of Art. It is free to enter, fun to participate, and has prizes! The event will be Saturday, September 24th at the West Haven building. Enter here: Chalk Art Festival
- Sept. 27- Fundraiser packets and money due back
- Scholastic Book Order. When you place an order, not only do you get fabulous books for your home library, but you also help our class earn points that we can exchange for classroom books.Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is N8TKQ: Scholastic Book Club
- EVACUATION DRILL: Tuesday, October 11th (more info to come)
- Fall Break: October 12th-October 14th
Reading in Class:
STRATEGY: We are talking about asking and answering questions to find key details in the text.
PHONICS: Short a and long a
Math in Class:
Reading Passages were sent home Friday with the students for this week. Please return all completed reading passages on Friday with the students orange take home folder.
Make it enjoyable and fun. You can even read to them and then ask them questions!! 20+ minutes a day is a great goal. Your child should be bringing home decodables in addition to their weekly passage throughout the week. These stories can be read and returned for class money. If they read them 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back. It is so important to read every day and ask fact finding questions from the story to develop your student’s comprehension; this is key to meeting the end of the year benchmark goals for 2nd grade, without practicing and developing this skill of retell it is extremely difficult hitting the end of the year benchmark reading level which begins this week.