Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign and return it the next day. Thank you!
May 25: Memorial Day (no school)
June 4: Class Parties 10:30-12:30 See note in this week’s Tuesday folder
June 5: Last Day of Class for Students
PARENT CONFERENCES
It is the time of year for end of year conferences. I will be requesting conferences for students that I have specific strategies and skills to work on over the summer. All students will benefit from reading daily… retelling and answering questions about the story. Writing often is also great practice for second grade. Don’t forget to work on problem solving and explaining how the problem was solved in math.
HOMEWORK
Homework will continue to be IXL practice and reading RAZkids or favorite books from home.
INDEPENDENT READING TIME
If your child would like to bring one or two books from home to enjoy during our independent reading time they may do so from now to the end of the year. These books will be kept in your child’s backpack and can be switched for new books as desired.
READING and WRITING
We will continue our family writing. I can't wait to share their writings with you. They are sweet and precious. After finishing our family writing, we will start working on our first grade memory books. We will remember all the great things that we did in first grade and write about those things. As always, we will emphasize on neat writing along with correct capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure.
In reading we will continue to read some of our favorite fiction books and review some important comprehension strategies. We will use the picture clues as well as the text clues to make predictions and inferences, visualize a part of the story or make connections.
MATH
For the next few weeks, we will work hard on problem solving. We will review the steps of how to start the problem solving and work on different strategies that have been learning throughout the year. Reading a math problem is like reading a story. We need to visualize it first by drawing a relevant picture. We need to remember the important things by underlining them, and we need to show our steps and strategies such as using a number line, ten blocks and ones cubes, tally marks, and addition and subtraction sentences. Whatever strategy we use, we also need to write our thinking in words. These steps will help the children in the long run to do more advanced problem solving in higher grades.
SOCIAL STUDIES
We will continue our unit on economics. The children have been learning about goods and services and how some jobs produce, or make goods and other jobs provide a service. We all need money to satisfy our needs and wants, and in order to gain money we need to have jobs to earn an income. We also need to make wise choices and be smart about spending our money. We will also learn about scarcity, when we have unlimited wants and needs and limited resources.