Teacher: Ms. Erika Chaine
Teaching Assistant: Mrs. Teresa Santos

Welcome to Second Grade
Class Schedule

Curriculum

READING

SILENT READING: Children read silently for 20 minutes. They read from both their reading text and their library books.

READING CONTRACTS: Children have 25 minutes to answer questions taken from the text and to do workbook pages. Reading Contracts DO NOT go home. These contracts must be completed by Friday.

LIBRARY BOOKS: Children are given time to read from these books. At least one book report will be done each quarter. Please make sure your child has a book to read

LANGUAGE ARTS

CREATIVE WRITING: Your child will work on a story or poem each week. The children are given 25 minutes each day. The story is to be completed weekly and will be due on Friday.

These stories are done in class and are often corrected for CONTENT ONLY.
Spelling/grammar is sometimes listed as a separate grade.

Note: You are welcome to read your child’s work during the week. Feel free to help them with corrections. I do ask that you do not ACCIDENTALLY write the story for your child.

SKILLS:

SENTENCE TYPES ADJECTIVES

SENTENCE STRUCTURE ADVERBS

SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS PREPOSITIONS

TYPES OF NOUNS TYPES OF VERBS

PRONOUNS REPORT WRITING

LETTER WRITING WRITING STORIES AND DESCRIPTIONS

PHRASES POETIC DEVICES

SPELLING CONTRACT: Children will be given 16-20 words to study each week. A contract will be given out on Monday. Children will be expected to complete the work and return the contract on Friday.

SPELLING QUIZ: This quiz consists of three parts:

A. 16 or 20 words which must be correctly spelled.

B. 3 definitions from which the children must derive the correct spelling word.

C. 3 sentences which must be correct in ALL aspects.

SPELLING GRADE: The final grade in spelling will be based on both the spelling tests and your child’s spelling in daily work.