It has been a wonderful second week in second grade! Students have been working hard to be respectful, mindful and cooperative learners. We have earned our first classroom celebration this week. We celebrated with gum day today!
During the month of September, we will be assessing our skills in reading, writing and math. We will be keeping the majority of your child's written work in school in a working portfolio. It is helpful to them and to me to revisit their work so that we can continuously look at their progress. It will be fun sharing it at a variety of times during the course of the year. All of their work will come home at some point. Thank you for understanding the value of keeping a working portfolio.
The second grade is also participating in a Peter Reynolds author study. We have read The Dot, Ish and Sky Color. We chose Peter Reynolds because of his positive messages and he supports our work with growth mindset. The world has recognized his fabulous work and recognizes September 15th as International Dot Day. The second grade will be celebrating the community that we have built over the past two weeks by going to Oakledge Park on Friday, September 14th and participating in more team building activities. Look for more information on Monday.
Other Things to Ask Your Child About:
~Team building games: Octopus, Elbow Tag, What Time is it Mr. Fox, Turtle Tag
~The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes and Your Fantastic Elastic Brain
~Helping Harry Engineering challenge
~Collecting 60 minutes a day in Number Corner
~Counting stations in Math
Have a great weekend!
Katie
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