Happy New Year

Happy New Year Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break with your families and friends. We had a wonderful first week back at school. Next Tuesday, in your child’s Tuesday Folders you will find a new reading goal sheet. On the sheet you will be able to see what your child’s reading level was at the beginning of the year (in green), their mid-year reading goal (in blue), their new reading level (in green), and their new reading goal for the end of the school year.

Your children have been working so hard and I am so proud of the work that they have accomplished. On the top of the sheet I have included their new reading level, accuracy rate, fluency rate (words per minute), and their comprehension (scale of 1-5 questions answered correctly).

To be reading at an independent level in 2^nd grade at this point in the school year your child needs to be able to do the following:

Accuracy at 95% or higher

Fluency at least adequate (50-100 WPM)

Comprehension on DRA at 4/5 or higher

Upcoming Events:
Tuesday, 1/14  Report Cards go home
Monday, 1/20  No School, MLK Holiday

Learning Objectives:

Language Arts- Using verbs in the context of reading, writing, and speaking; verbs: am, is, are, was, and were

Reading- Sequence, fact and opinion

Math- Adding three or more numbers in any order, describe and solve number stories, talk about strategy to solve number stories, use data to create a graph, solve multi-digit addition and subtraction problems, count dots in an array, create equal size groups

Science- How to lead a healthy lifestyle, how nutrition affects the body, food plate

Social Studies- Middle of the year goal setting, healthy living, introduction into biographies

Have a wonderful weekend!