Second Grade News
April 9-13
Here is a peek at what we will be working on this week.
Reading: Our new vocabulary words for this week are:
cold grow most move near
poison octopus reined rescue jellyfish
beach floating poke flopped parachutes
stomach jiggly tentacle
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 as we read, we will be using graphic sources to make sense of a selection. 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.
Bookbags: Please continue to read with your child every night. At the beginning of the year our benchmark reading standard was 40 words per minute. In January it was 70 words per minute. In May the benchmark is 90 words per minute to be considered at grade level. This can be as big hurdle for some children. For this reason, I am asking that you make it a priority to spend 15-20 minutes a night reading with your child. I know it gets hard in the spring, but I do appreciate the help you give your child.
Mileage Club: This will be starting on Monday, April 16. Mrs. Kelly needs parent volunteers to help run this program. If you can help, you would be needed one day a week for six weeks. You would be helping outside from 1:35-2:05, and then again from 2:25-2:50. Please contact her if you can help out. Her contact info is 825-2021 or ckelly@mcbain.org.
Dry Erase Markers Needed: At the beginning of the school the students brought in a dry erase marker to use with our white boards during math time. Our markers are dry and we still have nine 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!
Mrs. Wimmler
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