Week 1
Dear 2B Families,
I loved seeing all of you at our Meet the Teacher event. I am excited for our first day of school and for the year ahead of us!
NOTIFICATIONS
Look in the backpack for a red folder with prongs! This is going to be your child's homework folder. It will be coming home daily.
We are a PEANUT free classroom. Please send peanut free snack options with your child.
Please note that math facts FLASHCARDS will be an important item to have this year.
REMINDERS
Remember to send in supplies if you haven't already. We jump right into academics this first week, so they are needed right away. The first day of school is a great time to send them in! Can't find certain supplies or have any questions about how we use supplies in class? I would love to address your concerns or questions. Email me! Please see the supply list here.
HOMEWORK
Homework in 2nd grade looks much the same from day to day, 20 minutes of math, 20 minutes of spelling, and 20 minutes of reading. Occasionally, there will be an additional project to work on. Usually math homework is a Workbook exercise. For spelling, second graders write the words that are dictated to them in class day. Then students read for 20 minutes and log their reading minutes in their planner. You will need to initial your child's planner each day indicating that you have seen their homework and verified their reading. Math and spelling homework may look a little different this week. Please see the blurbs below to learn more about that. Wait until next week to begin logging minutes read.
*There will be no homework on Monday this week.
MATHEMATICS
We begin our math adventures with a Math About Me Activity. Then we spend two days completing a Singapore Assessment in class. Our first official lesson is a place value lesson on tens, ones, and two digit numbers, and our second lesson is on two-digit number words. Homework will be given starting on Tuesday.
SPALDING
On day one, we take a spelling scale test. Handwriting practice and phonogram review is the focus of the rest of our first week. We will be discussing proper sitting position, paper placement, and pencil grip. Ask your child to demonstrate these things for you. Then we will look closely at handwriting rules as we say and write first the single letter phonograms and then some of the multi-letter phonograms. Students will have handwriting practice sheets for homework on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Please help your child follow the directions on these sheets. All families, but especially those new to Spalding will want to review phonogram sounds with their children.
There are no spelling words this week. Those will come next week!
LITERATURE
We begin reading Charlotte’s Web this Wednesday. Please send your child’s copy to school. We will learn how to write nitty gritty chapter summaries using story elements. The vocabulary words we will be looking at are runt, injustice, specimen, enchanted, waded, manure, perspiration, hullabaloo, and gander. We will think about how people influence each other for good or for ill and about how to think and act for ourselves.
GRAMMAR
Students will be making a Grammar Notebook this week in class. We will use this notebook throughout the year. Encourage your child to keep a neat notebook! Our lesson topics this week include complete sentences, antonyms and synonyms, and the vocabulary word “stroll.”
WRITING
Our writing lessons have a few different parts: reading, narration, copywork, and dictation. We will read from “The Owl and the Grasshopper” and from “The Fox and the Stork.” We will practice writing a brief summary of these passages and focus on the use of beginning capitals and end punctuation.
POETRY
Our first poem of the year “Bed in Summer” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Students will memorize one stanza a week, and will recite the poem in its entirety by August 23rd. Look for a copy of the poem and the recitation rubric in your child’s red homework folder later this week.
SCIENCE
Our young scientists will learn about the steps of the scientific method (observations, problem, hypothesis, experiment, results, conclusion) through exploration of a STEM activity called "Can you save Fred?" and reading a book called 11 Experiments that Failed. Look for pictures of this activity on the blog next week!
Have a great week.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Dill
Dear 2B Families,
I loved seeing all of you at our Meet the Teacher event. I am excited for our first day of school and for the year ahead of us!
NOTIFICATIONS
Look in the backpack for a red folder with prongs! This is going to be your child's homework folder. It will be coming home daily.
We are a PEANUT free classroom. Please send peanut free snack options with your child.
Please note that math facts FLASHCARDS will be an important item to have this year.
REMINDERS
Remember to send in supplies if you haven't already. We jump right into academics this first week, so they are needed right away. The first day of school is a great time to send them in! Can't find certain supplies or have any questions about how we use supplies in class? I would love to address your concerns or questions. Email me! Please see the supply list here.
HOMEWORK
Homework in 2nd grade looks much the same from day to day, 20 minutes of math, 20 minutes of spelling, and 20 minutes of reading. Occasionally, there will be an additional project to work on. Usually math homework is a Workbook exercise. For spelling, second graders write the words that are dictated to them in class day. Then students read for 20 minutes and log their reading minutes in their planner. You will need to initial your child's planner each day indicating that you have seen their homework and verified their reading. Math and spelling homework may look a little different this week. Please see the blurbs below to learn more about that. Wait until next week to begin logging minutes read.
*There will be no homework on Monday this week.
MATHEMATICS
We begin our math adventures with a Math About Me Activity. Then we spend two days completing a Singapore Assessment in class. Our first official lesson is a place value lesson on tens, ones, and two digit numbers, and our second lesson is on two-digit number words. Homework will be given starting on Tuesday.
SPALDING
On day one, we take a spelling scale test. Handwriting practice and phonogram review is the focus of the rest of our first week. We will be discussing proper sitting position, paper placement, and pencil grip. Ask your child to demonstrate these things for you. Then we will look closely at handwriting rules as we say and write first the single letter phonograms and then some of the multi-letter phonograms. Students will have handwriting practice sheets for homework on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Please help your child follow the directions on these sheets. All families, but especially those new to Spalding will want to review phonogram sounds with their children.
There are no spelling words this week. Those will come next week!
LITERATURE
We begin reading Charlotte’s Web this Wednesday. Please send your child’s copy to school. We will learn how to write nitty gritty chapter summaries using story elements. The vocabulary words we will be looking at are runt, injustice, specimen, enchanted, waded, manure, perspiration, hullabaloo, and gander. We will think about how people influence each other for good or for ill and about how to think and act for ourselves.
GRAMMAR
Students will be making a Grammar Notebook this week in class. We will use this notebook throughout the year. Encourage your child to keep a neat notebook! Our lesson topics this week include complete sentences, antonyms and synonyms, and the vocabulary word “stroll.”
WRITING
Our writing lessons have a few different parts: reading, narration, copywork, and dictation. We will read from “The Owl and the Grasshopper” and from “The Fox and the Stork.” We will practice writing a brief summary of these passages and focus on the use of beginning capitals and end punctuation.
POETRY
Our first poem of the year “Bed in Summer” by Robert Louis Stevenson. Students will memorize one stanza a week, and will recite the poem in its entirety by August 23rd. Look for a copy of the poem and the recitation rubric in your child’s red homework folder later this week.
HISTORY
Welcome to week one in history! Your child will be diving right into geography this week! Over the next couple of weeks, we will be exploring maps and globes. This week we will begin with a review of the basic geography concepts of place, region, and relative location. Children review that maps have symbols, keys to decipher those symbols, and that maps also show cardinal directions. Students will review the continents and identify all four oceans along with Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America on the North American Continent. A fun activity at home is to study a map together and talk about the location of the continents using the terms north, south, east, and west. SCIENCE
Our young scientists will learn about the steps of the scientific method (observations, problem, hypothesis, experiment, results, conclusion) through exploration of a STEM activity called "Can you save Fred?" and reading a book called 11 Experiments that Failed. Look for pictures of this activity on the blog next week!
Have a great week.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Dill
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