Welcome to my 2nd grade blog!

Welcome parents!

Thank you for your patience as I get my blog started.  We have had a great first full week of school.  Reading and math assessments are finished, our schedule is FINALLY set, and I am looking forward to another week of learning with your children!  Please see the new schedule at the bottom of this page.  Also, please note that I will not begin small reading groups and centers until September 4th.  Words Their Way Spelling homework will not begin until September 10th. 

Volunteers Needed!
I will need two volunteers to come into my classroom next week, September 4th and 5th, Tuesday and Wednesday from 1:00 - 2:00 during our first days of centers and small reading groups.

 

HOMEWORK

Students are expected to complete homework daily.  Written homework will be given every day except Friday.

Homework will include the following:

SPELLING: Words Their Way spelling sorts

MATH:  A math worksheet will be sent home almost every night.  This will review what we covered in class

READING LOG: Students are expected to read for 15 – 20 minutes every night.  This may be done silently or your child may read aloud to you.  In 2^nd grade this year, we will be focusing on fluent oral reading.  Please record and initial your child’s reading log which can be found in his/her homework folder.     

COMMUNICATION FOLDERS

Your child will bring home a blue communication/homework folder every day. This folder will include:

• Behavior Log/Classroom Calendar
• Reading Log
• Homework sheets to be completed
• Spelling

This blue folder will be sent home daily and MUST come back to school each day with completed homework and behavior log signed.  You may send notes to me in this folder or you may email me at blord@neusecharterschool.org.

 

CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR

Student’s conduct will be graded daily (Green, Yellow, Purple, Red) and marked in your child’s daily homework and behavior blue folder.  Each color represents the following behavior:

GREEN:                Great day!

YELLOW:              Warning

PURPLE:               Note home to parents & student must complete a reflection sheet     

RED:                     Note and phone call to parents, conference (if needed)                       

*Students exhibiting severe behavior will be sent to the office.

Each day a Behavior Log will be marked according to the student’s behavior.  This Log must be initialed indicating that the parent has been informed of the child’s daily behavior.

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENTS

Classroom incentive charts:  each student will be given a classroom incentive chart, they will be given a star on their chart for good behavior, ten stars will allow them to go to the treasure box. 

 

Classroom cones:  each day I will give out two “way to go” cones to students I see following directions and making wise choices.  These students will receive a small piece of candy at the end of the day. 

TESTS

• Spelling tests will be given every Friday morning.  Spelling words will be sent home in your child’s daily homework folder each Monday.
• Reading comprehension tests will be given on MOST Fridays. 
• Weekly sentence correction tests will be given every Friday.  These sentences come from our daily language review folders.  Each morning students have two sentences to correct for punctuation, grammer, and capitalization errors.  We go over these as a class, I choose 3 - 5 for the test on Friday.     
• Math, science, and social studies tests will be given at different times during the year.

PARENT CONFERENCES

I am looking forward to conferencing with each of you during the 2^ndquarter of school. Please let me know if you would like to meet before that time please email me or send a note in the daily homework folder.

 

DONATIONS

 

Treasure box goodies

Wrapped candy

Sheet protectors

Construction paper

Paper towels

 

	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
	Morning Work	Morning Work	Morning Work	Morning Work	Morning Work
	8:00 – 8:45	8:00 – 8:45	8:00 – 8:45	8:00 – 8:45	8:00 – 8:45
	Math	Math	Math	Math	Math
	8:45 - 9:45	8:45 - 9:45	8:45 - 9:45	8:45 - 9:45	8:45 - 9:45
	Bathroom/Snack	Bathroom/Snack	Bathroom/Snack	Bathroom/Snack	Bathroom/Snack
	9:45 - 10:00	9:45 - 10:00	9:45 - 10:00	9:45 - 10:00	9:45 - 10:00
	TECHNOLOGY	LIBRARY	ART	LIBRARY	CHINESE
	10:05 - 10:50	10:05 - 10:50	10:05 - 10:50	10:05 - 10:50	10:05 - 10:50
	SPANISH	SPANISH	CHINESE	PE	MUSIC
	10:50 – 11:35	10:50 – 11:35	10:50 – 11:35	10:50 – 11:35	10:50 – 11:35
	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH	LUNCH
	11:45 - 12:15	11:45 - 12:15	11:45 - 12:15	11:45 - 12:15	11:45 - 12:15
	Bathroom	Bathroom	Bathroom	Bathroom	Bathroom
	12:15 - 12:30	12:15 - 12:30	12:15 - 12:30	12:15 - 12:30	12:15 - 12:30
	Reading/Centers	Reading/Centers	Reading/Centers	Writing	Reading/Spelling Tests
	12:30- 2:00	12:30- 2:00	12:30- 2:00	12:30- 1:15	12:30- 1:30
	Bathroom	Bathroom	Bathroom	S.S./Science	S.S./Science
	2:00 - 2:10	2:00 - 2:10	2:00 - 2:10	1:15 - 2:00	1:30 - 2:00
	Recess	Recess	Recess	Bathroom	Bathroom
	2:10 - 2:40	2:10 - 2:40	2:10 - 2:40	2:00 - 2:10	2:00 - 2:10
	Pack Up/Conduct	Pack Up/Conduct	Pack Up/Conduct	Recess	Recess
	2:45 – 3:00	2:45 – 3:00	2:45 – 3:00	2:10 - 2:40	2:10 - 2:40
	Read Aloud	Read Aloud	Read Aloud	Pack Up/Conduct	Pack Up/Conduct
	3:00 -3:30	3:00 -3:30	3:00 -3:30	2:45 – 3:00	2:45 – 3:00
				Read Aloud	Read Aloud
				3:00 -3:30	3:00 -3:30