Monday, August 10th, 2015

It was a pleasure to spend time with your child today! We spent the day getting to know each other and the books we'll be using in class, as well as becoming familiar with the rules, responsibilities, and expectations that come with being a grade 2 student.

Unless otherwise requested, I will be assigning one, two, or three pieces of homework per night, which should be able to be completed in 30 minutes maximum. The homework schedule will be as follows:

Monday: Language and Spelling
Tuesday: Social Studies
Wednesday: Science
Thursday: Math
Friday: Reading and Phonics

The above subjects will always be assigned on these days, although additional homework may be assigned as well.

The students' homework will also be listed in their assignment book, where I will write comments periodically and staple in announcements. I also welcome your comments via your child's assignment book or via your Class Dojo account.

Tonight's homework:

• Please prepare the supplies needed for class (in the welcome letter stapled to your child's assignment book.)
• Please complete the "Homework for Caregivers" (also stapled to your child's assignment book.)
• Log onto your Class Dojo account and see how your child did today! Please send me a message or return the bottom half of the sheet in your child's assignment book about Class Dojo. Thanks!

Special Notes:

•  I will collect your child's class fee and lunch fee through the end of this week. 

• We will be learning (and memorizing) a poem and a song every month in G2. The students had the opportunity today to vote for the first poem they would learn. They chose:

Show Fish by Shel Silverstein

I found a flounder and I thought, "Swell,

I'll take it to school for show and tell."

But I forgot, for quite a spell,

To take it to show and tell,

And now it's two weeks later... Well...

I'll take it to school for show and smell.

We'll be practicing this poem everyday for the month of August, exploring the rhyme and rhythm in this silly little stanza.