Welcome to our class page! We hope the information below is helpful. This class page will be updated each week. This is an important avenue for communication between school and home. We also use it to help you be more informed about each week's learning experiences in our classrooms. Notice that it contains information for each subject area. This should assist you in making your "work at home" easier and more meaningful. You will also find games your child can learn to play independently that enhance spelling and math fact mastery. This Quia page is available on-line at the Northwest website. Up-coming events, homework assignments, and the spelling word lists can always be found here.
Newsletter for the Week of February 9-13
Upcoming Events:
Friend Day February 12
No School February 13
No School February 16
READING: A paper is sent home weekly with our reading, spelling and grammar skills we are working on. Please take time to go over all ALL skills with you child. This will benefit your child and improve the learning process. It even has the questions AND answers to the comprehension questions for this week's reading test. This week we will be reading "Firefighter" The reading focus is Main Idea and supporting details.
Please remember to have your child color in the mitten for each night they read for the Pizza Hut's Book It program. 20 minutes of reading per night is the goal of this program that will reward your child with a free pizza each month if the reading goals are met. Please take time to read the information sheet and keep the calendar in a prominent place to help your child remember to color the pumpkins in after reading. We are also doing Braum's Book Buddy program at school that promotes reading. The children can earn certificates for free ice cream simply by reading a book and taking an AR test over it and scoring at least an 80%. We are hoping to foster a love of reading for the students that will last a lifetime and think that these programs are great incentives to help promote that.
SPELLING:The trial spelling test will be on Wednesday and the final test will be on Thursday. If a child makes a 100 on the trial test, he/she does not have to take the test on Thursday. PLEASE help your child study these words each week. A neat way your child can study at home is by going to our website at NWH and taking the links to play games that use the current week's words. This week's words are as follows:
1. cheerful 10. yearly
2. visitor 11. firefighter
3. slowly 12. sailor
4. weekly 13. gardener
5. teacher 14. competitor
6. helper 15. extremely
7. hardly
8. graceful
9. yearly
LANGUAGE/HANDWRITING: This week we will be learning about pronouns and how they can take the place of nouns. We will continue to work on our handwriting as well.
MATH: Our math work involves mastering various math skills as well as mastering the addition facts we've had up to this point to an automatic recall level. IMPORTANT: Parents, please help your child learn their addition and subtraction facts. They need to have them them memorized as soon as possible because we will be having timed fact sheet quizzes each week. Eventually, they will be given 5 minutes to do 100 fact problems. The only way they can complete the problems in that length of time is to have them memorized. This math skill is essential for them to have mastered before they go on to 3rd grade.
Thank you for taking the time to touch base with our CLASS PAGE. It makes a great difference for your child when you are involved daily with his/her learning!!! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us here at school via email or phone.
Second Grade Teachers
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