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Mrs. Heglar and Mrs. Hampton's 2nd Grade
Annie Heglar
MOUNT ULLA ELEMENTARY
Zip Code: 28125
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Mrs. Heglar
& 
Mrs. Hampton's
Second Grade 

 

 


Important Dates:
May 6th Zoo Trip
May 30th Memorial Day Holiday


Reading:

Fourth quarter new A.R. levels are now in your child's A.R. folder.  Please compare quarter levels to see your child's growth all year. Second graders are required to read 30 minutes each night in A.R. and 30 minutes at school in A.R. daily. Please ask your child questions and do summaries or retells when they finish reading. Students should be writing in their own titles and quiz numbers at all times.  Please monitor your child's reading quiz percentages, book levels read and weekly points and average/percentages for the week. 
  Be sure to ask your child to summarize/retell the story to you after reading daily.  A good way to work with your child on comprehension is to ask who, what, when, where, why and how questions to see if they understood what they read to you.  Reading is a process and it develops with practice.
We will be teaching children different types of genres in reading.  Genres are different types of reading material.  Please help expose your child to different forms of reading text.  Examples of the types of genres your child should be reading are recipes, magazines, plays, poems, fables, fiction books, nonfiction books, fairy tales and how to books.  
We are working on writing answers to comprehension questions in sentence form.  We are working with the students to turn the question around in order to answer the question fluently. 
Students should be working on fluency and vocabulary strongly by this point in the year.  A child's fluency should be becoming much more fluent as they read with less stop and start and their use of high frequency words should improve fluency as well as focusing on decoding words.

Math:
We will continue to teach the listed math objectives below while adding the use of Venn Diagrams in math, pictographs, time, measurement and bar graphs. Focus on addition, subtraction and number sense to 1000 or higher second quarter. Second graders should truly master all addition and subtraction facts to sums and differences of 18.  So many other math operations depend upon true mastery of facts. Please practice all year with your child on mastery of all addition and subtraction facts.  Try using flash cards, math games, computer sites, review in the car orally quizzing them with facts, timed practice quizzes at home aloud or on paper. .  
We are trying to get students breaking down story problems and deciding what operations the story problem is asking of them and how to set up the equation.  Please help to encourage your child to work out all problems in number sentences, pictures or mentally.

Science and Social Studies:
Most of the science and social studies are integrated into our reading and writing curriculum. We will focus on animals and the stages of their life- cycles. Our trip to the zoo will support our animal study.  The students will choose some of their projects of interest supporting animals.  

Written Expression:
Students should be writing while following the five finger outline.  The first finger is the opening which tells when, where, what and who. The second, third and fourth fingers tell step by step with details make up the middle of the story. The fifth finger is the ending and may repeat the beginning topic and how the student feels about the topic. Always have an illustration.  Remember that written expression goes hand in hand with reading usually.  Written expression is a process and is also developmental.  Your child may be in one of many different stages of writing when they enter first grade.  Please monitor and support your child's writing at home with homework and any form of writing when ever possible.  
Please encourage your child to have a beginning, middle and end to all stories. All spelling and high frequency words should be spelled correctly in the students writing (stories and sentence answers).  Students should be using mastery of mechanics of writing.  Examples of what they should do with ease would be capitalization, punctuation and commas when needed.
Students should be writing using parapgraphs.  Go by the five finger stories and make each finger become a paragraph. 

Below are child friendly sites that you may want to visit with your child at home:
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/testing/eog/sampleitems/reading
www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/testing/eog/sampleitems
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar5.htm#
http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/tangrams/index.html
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/games/test.shtml
 www.ncwiseowl.com
 www.coolmath.com
 www.eduplace.com/math/
 www.bookpals.net/
 www.eduplace.com/kids
http://storynory.com/2006/11/19/aladdins-lamp/
www.scholastic.com/learningarcade/play.htm
 www.pbskids.org
 www.funbrain.com
 www.Discoveryschool.com
 www.storylineonline.net
 www.scholastic.com
 www.mountullaelementary.com
 


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