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In The Classroom – As your child’s teacher, I promise to…

• Use the latest research to teach students.

• Provide open communication through folders, conferences, phone calls and notes.

• Establish collaboration with all essential partners for student instruction and scheduling/pull-out.

• Provide materials that are interesting and motivating.

• Help parents understand instructional practices, class expectations, and grading policies.

• Plan meaningful lessons that meet individual student needs.

• Provide a safe school environment that promotes learning and encourages a partnership with the school.

• Employ effective classroom management skills.

• Promote a feeling of belonging for all.

At Home – As the child’s parent/guardian, I promise to…

• Read nightly with my child.

• Engage in activities that encourage learning.

• Provide encouragement and positive reinforcement.

• Talk with my child about his/her school day.

• Attend school activities & parent-teacher conferences.

• Show respect with my words and actions for my child, other children, and their families, the teachers, and the school.

• Communicate and work with the school to encourage my child’s learning and positive behavior.

• Use the 7 Habits language with my child

• Ask specific questions to stimulate my child’s conversation/oral language skills.

• Encourage regular & prompt attendance.

• Provide a nightly routine to encourage an earlier bedtime

A sample of what your child will be learning in 2nd grade Language Arts:

• Paying attention in stories to answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions

• Determining the lesson or moral in stories

• Using text features to locate key facts

• Writing an opinion about a book

• Writing stories that include a sequence of events

• Participating in shared research projects

• Retelling key information or ideas from media or books read aloud

• Producing, expanding, and rearranging sentences

• Determining the meaning of a new word  when adding prefixes and suffixes

Some activities you can do to support Language Arts learning at home: 

• Read at home every day and assist your child by reading every other paragraph.  Encourage your child to read to younger siblings, cousins, or other children you know.

• Have your child write a thank you note or letter to family members or friends.

• Ask your Media Center specialist to suggest books about people or places that are important to your child or family that you can read together.  Encourage your child to explain what he or she has just read.

A sample of what your child will be learning in 2nd grade Math:

• Solving addition and subtraction word problems with one or two steps

• Quickly and accurately adding with a sum of 20 or less

• Understanding what the digits mean in three-digit numbers (place value)

• Using understanding of place value to add and subtract three-digit numbers

• Measuring and estimating length in standard units

• Solving addition and subtraction word problems involving length

• Building, drawing, and analyzing 2-D and 3-D shapes to develop foundations for area, volume, and geometry in later grades

Some activities you can do to support Math learning at home: 

Look for “word problems” in real life.  Some second grade examples might include:

• When saving for a purchase, compare the cost of the item to the amount of money you have; then ask your child to determine how much more money he or she needs to buy the item.

• When measuring your child’s height, ask how many inches he or she has grown since the very first measurement.

• Play “draw the shape.” For example, ask your child to draw a hexagon with one side longer than the others, or ask him or her to shade in a quarter of a rectangle.