Parents, we will be completing our Mid-year testing from Jan. 12 – Jan. 18. If your student will be gone these dates, please let me know so we can test them before they go. Please make sure they are getting plenty of rest and a good breakfast. Some students get test anxiety. To help them, practice timing them for 1-minute while they read out loud to you. Then have them tell you about what they read after the timer goes off.
- This Week
- Tuesday: Library Day – Books are Due!!
- Fri. : *Math Acadience Testing – 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.
- PTC’s Jan. 31 & Feb. 1 = Signups will be posted by Tuesday Evening (1/09)
Reading in Class: We are working on finding the main idea and key details in a story. PHONICS: We are learning the different ways to spell the long u sound in words. [ u, u_e, ew, ue]
Math in Class: We will be taking our mastery check for adding 3-digit numbers with regrouping on Monday. Then we will be learning strategies to subtract 3-digit numbers with regrouping. 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.