Please read at home with your child every night to help increase their fluency and comprehension. The students will be bringing home a little book to read each night.   Students should be reading on their level, the alphabet level letter is on the top of the parent signature sheet. Our goal is to have the students advance to different levels throughout the school year. Let's keep reading and watch those levels rise! 

Students will bring  home an  ID# and password  for the Reading and Math website www.connectED.com McGraw-Hill to practice Reading and Math skills and play games that will help with skills.

We will be having quizzes on addition and subtraction facts throughout the year.

****Along with our Math series, students should memorize the Math facts so they can immediately answer a simple addition or subtraction fact such as 6+5=11.

This is a very important skill that must be mastered in second grade.  
 

Our Reading Program is called Wonders. The students have two very large Reading books that will be kept in school. They will be bringing home smaller books to practice reading. Spelling and Grammar homework will be sent home weekly.
 
For each Reading Unit we will be on a 6 day cycle. Since we will not be covering all of the material in a week, the tests will not always be on a certain day of the week  (ex. Friday).  
A sheet with all of the following week's Spelling and Vocabulary words will be sent home on the day of the test. The sheet will list the dates of the Spelling pretest and Reading test.
 
For each Unit the sheet will list:
 
*The stories and concepts that we will cover in class.
*15 Spelling words. We will have a pretest two days after the students receive the new list. If your child gets 100% on the pretest, they do not have to take the Spelling test at the end of the Unit.
*Vocabulary words that your child should be able to read and define.
*High frequency words that your child should be able to easily read.
*Oral vocabulary that your child does not have to read, but should be familiar enough to tell what the word means if it is used in a sentence.