Making Our Kindness Mark

Hello Families-

We've had a wonderful week here at RMCS. This week, we have completed our Peter Reynold's author study. This week, we read both Rose's Garden and The North Star. These books both have the moral of spreading kindness and your individuality is your strength. We've been using this author to build our community, and to make our school more beautiful. If you take a peek in the RMCS 2nd grade hallway, you'll see some of our own flowers and stars on top of our dots. Take a peek at some of our beauties:

This week in reading, our mantra has been "Second Grade Readers Grow like Beanstalks", as our reading minds have been exploding with reading growth. We've learned a few ways that students can become even stronger readers include setting goals for our reading volume, scooping up words into phrases, and keeping tabs on our comprehension by stopping, thinking and retelling parts of the story. We have also been keeping track of our thinking by jotting our big ideas on sticky notes. Our books are becoming furry with post-its!

Other Things to Ask Your Child About:
- Creating our growth mindset books and privacy folders
- Looking at combinations of ten and twenty
- Solving missing addend problems
- Learning about a.m. and p.m.
- Logging on to our chromebooks

Have a wonderful weekend!
Kelly