Eraser
Small crayon/pencil box
#2 Pencils
Crayons
2 glue sticks
2-family sized boxes of tissues

No pens, felt tip pens or markers, trapper keepers, mechanical pencils, or colored pencils.

• Flashcards will be sent home
• Please practice these with your child
• Sign and date the chart (keep at home for Tuesday)

• Flashcards
• Practice, sign, date, and return on Wednesday

• Math Fact Sheet will be sent home
• Please time your child (should be able to be completed in one and a half minutes)
• Please check over the facts with your child
• May be returned the next day

• Library day is on Monday
• Please listen to your child read their library books
• Discuss the story, ask your child questions about the story
• If it is a chapter book you may want to take turns reading
• Return the books when finished so new books can be brought home

• sent home at the beginning of each month
• the goal is to read 20 minutes a night for at least 20 days out of the month
• calendars are to be returned at the end of the month

• A new spelling list will be sent home

• Final test over the new words
• A sentence will also be part of the test grade. It will include review words from the previous two weeks.

• Read to your child every day. Children's novels and short chapter books make great read alouds. Second graders love to hear picture books too.

• Listen to your child read every day. They can read their library books, familiar books that you have at home, children's magazines, etc.
• Make it a fun time to be together

• Practice reading the sight words and the word families (found on the parent resources page)

• Give your child change to sort and count

• Have your child figure out what time it will be in 5 minutes, 15 minutes, half an hour, an hour, etc.

• Play board games that involve math such as Monoply, Yahtzee, etc.
• Play board games that involve reading or spelling such as Scrabble Jr., Boggle Jr., etc.