This week’s Fridge Note will be posted when then 2nd grade newsletter has been finalized.
Due to the short week and our field trip to Sea World, we will NOT have spelling words or a spelling quiz this week. Instead, Monday night’s homework will be a special snowman book report. This time, the students will read a fiction story and use the snowman’s body to recount the story using beginning, middle and end. Please make sure your child picks a book on his/her level and writes in complete sentences with capital letters and punctuation. Book reports provide an opportunity for students to practice applying the reading strategies and skills that we’ve been learning in class. It is important for students to practice these skills with a “good fit” book that will challenge their reading. Since we are working on recounting, we want the students to retell the story in their own words without copying from the text. If your child is struggling with this, close the book and have him/her just talk to you about what happened. In class we use the “think it, say it, write it” format. Sometimes saying it out loud first really helps with putting it on paper.
