Mrs. Stoyanoff's Second Grade!
Every week, the students will bring home a reading comprehension assignment and a spelling assignment. The students will bring the assignments home on Monday and the assignments are due back on or before Friday. The students will also bring home a Math Homelink (see below) everyday Monday thru Thursday of most weeks. These are just a 10-15 minute brief review of the Math lesson that we learned that day. The Math Homelink is always due the following school day.
On Fridays, the students will bring home the newsletter for the following week. On the back of the newsletter will be the Homework Chart. On the Homework Chart are the spelling words and word wall words for that week. All of the words will be on the spelling test. The Spelling test is always on Friday (unless there is no school, then it will be on Thursday). At the bottom of the Homework Chart is the weekly reading log. The students are asked to read 15 minutes, 5 times a week.
Homework
In 2nd Grade students will bring home math assignments called “Home Links” to do as homework throughout the year. Home Links are due the following school day. The assignments will not take very much time to complete, but most of them involve interaction with an adult. The assignments encourage children to take initiative and responsibility for completing them. As you respond with encouragement and assistance, you help your child build independence and self-confidence.
Home Links reinforce newly learned skills and concepts. These assignments help tie mathematics to the real world, which is very important in the Everyday Mathematics program. The Home Link assignments will help parents get a better idea of the mathematics their child is learning in school.
Math Homework
Links
100% E+
99-94% E
93-90% E-
89-83% S+
82-72% S
71-65% S-
64-0% U
A grade of E indicates your child…
~Listens carefully to directions the first time they are given directions and independently
~Completes work without additional explanation or reminders.
~Consistently understands new instructional concepts and produces high-quality work
~Consistently uses understanding of new concepts and consistently demonstrates
problem solving and creative thinking skills
A grade of S indicates your child…
~May need directions to be repeated or additional explanations given.
~Listening skills are satisfactory at this time, but are still developing.
~Usually understands new instructional concepts and usually produces satisfactory work
~Usually uses understanding of new concepts and shows evidence of problem solving and creative thinking skills
A grade of U indicates your child…
~Requires frequent individual help to complete work; has poor listening skills
~Requires significant modifications to the assignment in order to be successful
~Produces work of inconsistent quality and needs frequent retouching and additional practice
~Is not able to apply understanding of new concepts
~Grades are based on modifications in the classroom