We are all settling in to Second grade and learning the routines of the new again and of the classroom. We have some new teachers this year that you’ll meet at Open House next week Thursday.

This week we started the NWEA tests for the Fall semester. We took the reading section yesterday and will take the math today.

Planners came home this week. We use it to write special things happening for the week ahead and I have the students write the 10 weekly Spelling words on the page that matches to the date. We write a few each day so by Wednesday they have all the words in their planner. They should be studying the words each night for homework. Our words this week review short a and short i sound. The words are: has, sat, will, fix, him, his, ran, did , can, am.

We’re getting back to strategies that make good readers and writers. We’ve begun our Daily 5 routines and the students are doing well building their stamina back to sitting and reading or writing.

We are using a new math program this year. The big focus this unit is groups or number bonds of 10: 6+4, 8+2, 9+1, etc.

We’ve begun learning a bit about communities and what is found in our community of Dearborn in Social Studies.

Enjoy the week!