Welcome to our new 2nd grade blog! We hope to keep you posted on what we are learning and doing in our 2nd grade classrooms at Free Orchards Elementary School. This year is full of new learning for both students and teachers. This is our first year doing the Daily Five. The five areas of Daily Five are:
1. Read to Self2. Read to Someone
3. Listen to Reading
4. Work on Writing
5. Word Work/Spelling
Student are developing independence and building stamina in both reading and writing. They know this means staying with the job at hand and not getting distracted or giving up. They have learned the IPick system of choosing books that are appropriate for them. Please help your child succeed by reading to them and with them often. Discussing what they are reading helps improve their comprehension.
Our content study this quarter involves learning more about community workers as well as civics, government and economics. Our focus in math is adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers, learning the different properties of geometric shapes, and solving story problems especially ones involving money.
More to come...
