Second grade is a wonderful time for your child to continue to develop his/her love of learning. During Second grade, your child will continue to build his/her reading muscles but the focus on comprehension will increase.Your child will begin to take AR quizzes during the school day to check your child's ability to comprehend what he/she is reading. We will be discussing the setting, characters, problems and solutions to a text. Your child will be making predictions, asking questions while they read and find the main idea of a text.  Your child will continue to be exposed to fiction and nonfiction texts. Please stop and ask your child questions as they read because if he/she does not understand the story then he/she is not really reading. Reading is about comprehension and not just reading the words. 

 

In math, your child will continue to build his/her fact fluency with both addition and subtraction facts. Please practice identifying and counting coins. Telling time on an analog clock will also be taught this year.

 

In writing, your child will be learning to be more of a descriptive writer and expanding on his/her written ideas.