2nd Grade Newsletter
January 10 - January 14, 2022
Welcome to 2nd Grade
You must call the office, 817-305-4870, by 2:00 p.m. to communicate any change in your child's dismissal.
Please check and initial your child's Great Tiger Folder every evening.
Weekly Learning Objectives
Math- Learners will count a collection of coins up to one dollar.
ELAR-Learners will use nonfiction text features to make meaning and understand keywords.
Social Studies - Learners will identify national symbols.
Science- Learners will demonstrate that things can be done to materials to change their physical properties.
Fundations (spelling)- Learners will understand how suffixes change the meaning of words.
Mark Your Calendar
January 10-28 GT Services/Aspire Academy Referral Window Opens
January 17- School Holiday
January 22- PTA Snow Hill/ Dad's Club Breakfast
Testing for GT Services and/or the ASPIRE Academy
Kindergarten through 5th Grade currently enrolled students may be referred and tested for GT services and/or the ASPIRE Academy during the window below:
Referral Window: January 10-January 28
Testing Window: February 1-February 28
GT decisions mailed on: March 28
ASPIRE decisions mailed on: April 27
Visit the Advanced Academics Website (https://bit.ly/GCISDGTID) to refer your child for testing, and please allow thirty minutes to complete the “Parent Inventory/Permission to Test” online form.
If you are unable to refer your child online, you may pick up a paper copy of the referral form in the front office of your home campus.
For more information regarding the testing process, please view one of the following videos below. All videos can also be found at https://bit.ly/GCISDGTinfo
Book Bags/Nightly Reading
Your child should bring home a leveled "bag of books" each evening for his/her 20 minutes of nightly reading. We kindly ask that the books, with the table of contents card, stay in your child's backpack. *Bookbags are distributed each Monday and are turned in each Friday.
Nightly reading can take many forms. Your child can read aloud to you, you could read aloud to your child, or you can share the reading. After reading discuss the book by asking questions like "Who was your favorite character? Why?" "What was your favorite part of the story? Why?"
Math at Home
For the next few weeks, we will be focusing on counting coins up to one dollar. A great way to practice this at home is to give your child a handful of coins and let them count it up! You could also call out a certain amount of money and have them show you by using different coins. For example, you could ask them to show you 3 ways to make 82 cents.
Learning Commons schedule
Please help your child keep his/her library book in the large plastic bag that is labeled with their name. This bag will help protect the book from "all the things" that live in backpacks.
Students will visit the Learning Commons with their homeroom. Students must turn in their books in order to check out another book. *Please have your child bring their library books to school the day before their scheduled day to visit the Learning Commons. Students will be able to turn in their books to allow for ample time for Mrs. Irwin to check them back in. Thank you!
Wednesdays-Rodenberger
Thursdays- Knudson
Fridays- Dagger and Blanchard (Pettit)
Cleaning/Purging?
Now that the children are back in school have you found the urge to purge? Are you cleaning out book shelves and cabinets?
Your second grade teachers will happily accept used picture books, early chapter books, puzzles, and games.
Books help us build classroom libraries and keep collections interesting and relevant. Old puzzles and games help us with cooperation, problem solving, creativity, and indoor recess.
Let us help you with your donation piles!