Busy Bees in Grade 2!

The crazy first weeks of school has come to an end. We feel like with days off and not a full week of school yet, things have been crazy! We are very much looking forward to finally a full week with your kids. I am sure they will be exhausted though by Friday ... us too! We are thrilled to see many of your children have been making progress on xtra math and raz-kids already. It's so great to see they are motivated to work hard to learn their math facts. They have their September math facts test on Wednesday -- 100 facts/5 minutes. Be on the lookout for that to come home so you can see their progress. Here are some highlights from the past two weeks in school.

The kids LOVE WORDO! WORDO is an excellent way to practice their reading fluency. They practice reading 3-4 word phrases then come and read it to us. After reading 9 lists fluently, they receive a prize. Then go onto the next 9 lists and so on and so forth. There are 27 lists that get increasingly more difficult.

Mrs. Dubb loves to read!

Anton has been our class rules reader ... he has done a wonderful job in doing so. Here he is practicing the school motto, "Always Our Best!"

Sydney & Zoey working as partners -- we will do a lot of partner work in the 2nd grade.

Dylan is helping us to write the date. Ask your children about where the commas go when writing the date and why they are there.

The kids loved the lesson on what makes a book easy, just right & challenging. They thought it was a bit silly but they definitely got the idea.

Working Snack!

Isabella has the biggest peach we have ever seen for snack one day! I think she ate it all too ... go Isabella!

Quiet work zone!

Chase reading his WORDO list to Mrs. Dubb!

Steven ... always smiling, always happy, always a model student!

Reese told us all about her NYC Trip and the contest she won. Her photo was highlighted in Times Square for the world to see! Go Reese!

Spelling was much more smooth the 2nd week. They have a good handle on it now. Remember the kids get their words each Friday so they can complete their assignments over the weekend ... Monday = ABC Order & Highlight the pattern, Tuesday = Words #1-6 in sentences, Wednesday = Words #7-10 in sentences, Thursday = Spelling Test

Thanks to all who helped out with our first community service project, making applesauce for the South End Children's Cafe! We bottled more than 40 jars of applesauce to donate!