Hello families!

We hope you have had a great weekend despite all the rain. What a perfect excuse to stay inside, curl up, and read!

It is that time of year again....DRA2 is beginning. This is the final time this year we will give this assessment. Students will be pushed beyond their independent reading level to find the level that they need instruction. As this is an important assessment to help teachers know where the child's strengths and weaknesses are, we always keep in mind that it is one assessment out of data we have been collecting all year.

Did you mark your calendars for this years Second Grade Performance. The classes will perform their hard work on May 7th at 2:30 to the primary grades and then there will also be an evening performance for friends and family at 6:30 on May 7th. All performances are here at the school in the gym.

Reading: This week we working to determine importance to help us paraphrase information. We want students to be able to react, respond and merge their thinking with the information they read about to better remember it. To do this, we will work on using our own words to shape thoughts around what they read.

Math: Second grade- We are continuing work around lesson 11, Whole Number Operations Revisited. Third Grade- working on multiplication strategies.

Fast: Formal FAST lessons have ended for the year but we continue to work on the skills through our spelling words. This week we are working on Lesson 27: "wr", "kn", "mb".

Writing: We will be writing an expository piece around someone special in our life.

Social Studies: We are starting a new unit called, "Where in the World is Our Community?" This unit will build off the work we have done around geography.


Thank you again for all of your support and hard work!

The Second Grade Team