Second Grade News

April 16-20

Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week.

Reading:  Our new vocabulary words for this week are: 

            along                  front                   right                   probably

          someday           noise                  repeated           hollow

          quarry                stone                  giant                   helmet

          claws                  shallow             lagoon

Please put this list in a handy spot and have your child practice reading through the words a couple of times each day. 

This week we will be reading informational texts, and we will be using graphic sources to make sense of the selections.  We will learn that a graphic source is a chart, table, diagram, graph, etc. that an author puts in a selection as a way to give us information.

Spelling:  Your child’s new spelling words are attached to this list.

Library:  We return to the library on Thursday.  Please make sure all books are returned so that more may be checked out.

Bookbags:  Please continue to read with your child every night so your child is able meet the 90 words per minute reading benchmark at the end of the year.

Mileage Club:  This started today.  Mrs. Kelly is still in need of a few more parent volunteers.   If you are interested in helping with this, her contact info is 825-2021 or ckelly@mcbain.org.

Dry Erase Markers Needed:  At the beginning of the school year, the students brought in a dry erase marker to use with our white boards during math time.  Our markers are drying out, and we still have eight weeks of school remaining.  I am asking that you send in one or two new dry erase markers with your child so we can keep working until the end of the year.  Thanks so much!

Have a great week!

Mrs. Wimmler