- This Week
- Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!!
- Fri. : Spirit Shirts – Early Release 1:10
- UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
- Jan. 15 – No School – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Middle of Year Testing – Jan. 16 *Please have your children reading out loud every night.
Yearbook Contest: The time has come for us to select a yearbook cover for our 2023-24 elementary yearbook. We will be holding a Yearbook Cover Contest to select two students whose artwork will be featured on the front and back cover of the yearbook. This year, students can choose to do artwork that is created digitally or hand-drawn. Each entry must be brought in on a white 8 ½ X 11” paper, and include the school name along with the student’s first and last name in one corner. We will be looking for entries that represent this years theme which is “BE GREAT!” Entries are due by Friday, January 5, at 8:30 am.
List of digital art programs suitable for children: Adobe Fresco, Gimp, Krita, Artweaver Free, ArtRange, Sketchpad, Astropad Studio, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Vectr, FireAlpaca, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Procreate, Tux Paint, Drawing for Children.
Reading in Class: We are working on summarizing a story. Ask your child what they are reading and see if they can retell the story to you. PHONICS: We are learning the different ways to spell the long e sound in words. [ e, ee, ea, ie, ey, y]
Math in Class: This week we will be learning different strategies to add 3-digit numbers with regrouping. We will probably test next Monday or Tuesday. Please see the family letter below and consider doing the activity with your child at home.
Reading Passages (optional, but highly encouraged!!) : We are testing Jan. 16.
**Please read with your child. Make it enjoyable and fun. You can even read to them and then ask them questions!! 20 minutes a day is a great goal. 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.
DECODABLE STORIES: Your child should be bringing home stories each Friday in their orange folders. Your child can read these stories and return them for class money. If they read them 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back.