I have set-up a sign up genius for parent/teacher conferences.  If you cannot find a time that works for your schedule, I am more than happy to find another time that works for you.  I have scheduled conferences for a half an hour.  If you feel like you need additional time, please either sign up for multiple slots, or let me know, and we will set-up a longer time that works for you.  I am so excited to share the wonderful progress that our second graders are making. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  Thank you.

Yesterday, we started practicing telling time.  The children started with identifying the hands on a clock.  Next, we practiced telling times to the hour.  Today, we started moving on to the half hour.  I had the children do some physical movement to feel their body making a full turn around, a half turn around, and we even attempted the quarter turns.  The children used their arms like the hands on a clock, to demonstrate how they travel around the clock.  This was a pretty difficult task for many.  Any opportunity that you have at home for the children to read a clock, would be really helpful.  If you are looking for a holiday present idea, a clock would be a great idea… 🙂  We will continue to practice telling time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour.  Some children have moved on to practicing time to the minute, and figuring out elapsed time.

This week, in addition to the following, we will be working on contractions.  We will be practicing replacing a vowel with an apostrophe.  The kids have practiced with the word, “is” and “not”, thus far.  We have also moved on to identifying verbs in a sentence.  The children have been pretty solid with identifying and writing nouns.  I have been impressed with how well the children have been able to identify verbs, that don’t show an obvious “action”.  Finally, we will be throwing in some additional practice with plural nouns.  This proved to be a difficult task for many.