Working Hard

Your children have been working very hard over the last several weeks. Your second graders have been reading, writing, spelling, adding, subtracting, and exploring what a community is all about. They are writing and solving number stories, tapping and building words with new glued sounds and vowel teams, reading "good fit texts" to themselves or reading to someone, memorizing and using new spelling words, discovering rhyming words and patterns in poetry, exploring number patterns on number grids and fact tables, writing in complete sentences with skills being taught and reinforced through our new grammar program, and learning what important part service workers and volunteers make in a community. These are very full days in a second graders life! All this and children need to make friends, ward off bullies and remember how to be a TRRFCC student. You should be very proud of their accomplishments. We are making great progress.

Don't forget next Tuesday, October 19 is our field trip downtown. Parents who are joining us should be at school by 8:30. Please remember all students need a PEANUT FREE lunch with a throw way bag and drink. It will be a very informative day thanks to the community workers; police, fire, town hall and post office. We are all looking forward to this event. This week our focus in social studies will be on these service workers.

Remember to keep your child reading each night. The research tells us they should be practicing their reading strategies often. Ask them about what reading strategies they know. Telling you is a great teaching tool. Also, practice math facts regularly. While riding to soccer practice , or school...great time to drill those simple facts.

I wish you all a fabulous week. Please refer to EDLINE for newsletters on curriculum needs. This week in Fundations we continue to develop the skill of using suffix endings. In Math we continue to pratice Fact Power.

Enjoy the week!