Happy April!
Wow! What a great way to start the month of April with our 2nd grade concert the night before! It was such a joy to see all the second graders come out and participate in their concert! They have been really working so hard in music class and I was so thankful that you could be a part of their big night!
We have begun the 4th quarter and it is so hard to believe! I am happy to say that we have reached spring weather as the children love to go outside for break time and recess! I am sure we will have the April showers, but we eagerly await those May flowers! There is a lot going on in the month of April with our second graders and I wanted to inform you!!
In the 4th quarter for math, we are beginning to review money, including coin values, as well as how to add them up and use graphic organizers, such as graphs. We are also using measurement to solve with addition and subtraction! Therefore, at home, feel free to use some coins and practice counting up different values. You can make it a game where you and your child each make a value and then they you each have to count up each other’s values. When you go to the store and pay in cash, you can have the students think about how they would make change. There are a lot of different ways you can help review money values, so feel free to be creative!
In Reading class, we are reviewing how to sequence events and looking at how author’s use text structure to organize our readings. To encourage our readers to keep on reading and to enjoy it, I have included an April monthly reading log with creative ideas that you can choose to do each night! Feel free to use that throughout the month of April!
Our big event that is coming up in April is our field trip to the Santander Center in Reading on April 29th. This field trip is very exciting and something new to second grade! We will be watching a performance of Miss Nelson is Missing. The performance is based on a book that we will spend talking about and using in our classroom in just a few weeks! A permission slip came home recently for it so please sign it and return so that your son and/or daughter can join us for a unique opportunity!
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!
Mrs. Hoffsmith