Moving Up To 2

1. As you start thinking about next year, we hope the following information and suggestions will be helpful. We look forward to working with you! Mrs. Hester, Mrs. Whitbread and Mrs. Wilson Moving Up To 2 Second grade students are assigned to a homeroom class for Morning Meeting, Computer time, Reading, and Phonics. Students will be flexibly grouped for Math amongst the three teachers. In the afternoons they will travel as a homeroom class to Mrs. Wilson for Writing, Mrs. Whitbread for Social Studies, and Mrs. Hester for Science. Students will have a weekly spelling list and quiz, nightly homework, nightly reading, and weekly typing practice. Students beginning the second grade at Endeavor are expected to read independently for a minimum of twenty minutes. They should be able to work independently and cooperatively. They should be able to write complete sentences with a beginning capital letter and end punctuation. They should know addition and subtraction facts up to twenty. They should be able to make a hypothesis and adjust it for accuracy within the format of the scientific method. Students should also be able to identify nouns in a given sentence.