Mrs. Spencer's Classroom Blog

Thank you parents for your support this year! All of the students have grown in so many ways.

Here are a few articles and resources for parents.

Happy Summer!

This is a good article about what parents can do when their child isn’t understanding what they are reading.

https://www.readbrightly.com/helping-children-understand-words-they-read/?ref=PRHBFAFAC27DC&aid=randohouseinc28715-20&linkid=PRHBFAFAC27DC

Summer reading list for second graders!  Take this list with you when you go to the library.

https://www.educationworld.com/summer_reading/2nd_grade.shtml

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lists/17-18/2018-summer-reading-challenge-book-list-for-grades-1-2/

The website below has great information about parenting.

https://www.pbs.org/parents/parenting/

This article is about how young children are not developing their fine motor skills which are very important for writing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-14/ipad-generations-fingers-not-ready-to-write/9143880

This article is about the importance of reading aloud to your child. It just takes 15 minutes a day. 

Reading to kids for 15 minutes makes a difference in development

A Math Blog with free math websites

https://www.upperelementarysnapshots.com/2017/06/summer-math-websites-for-your-kids.html

It’s that time of year when students are bringing home notebooks and other stuff from their desks. 

Please remind your child to empty their backpack before they come to school tomorrow.  They are very heavy. 

Thank you

Last Spelling List of the Year – compound words

Pattern words – football ,everybody, grandmother, bedroom, downstairs,anything,playground, someone, sunshine, something

Sight words – because, taught, caught, treat, learned

Homework this week will be to study the Social Studies Unit 6 study guide that I will send home tomorrow. The test will be on Thursday. 

Please check around the house for school reading books. Reading bag books have stickers on them with box numbers. 

My classroom books have my name on the inside cover and a number in the corner of the cover. Thank you!!