Launching the Daily 5

At Parkway, we use the Daily 5 during Readers' Workshop as a structure to make sure all students are engaged and actively learning. We are busy in second grade learning strategies for Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary as we read, and we are spending time building stamina to be able to read independently for a length of time! This part of the Daily 5 is called "Read to Self", and we are making great progress at this independent skill. Here are some photos of "Read to Self" in action!

Newsletter

You can view this week's newsletter here on Google docs!

Updates!

As we approach the end of our first full week of school, we have some updates to the blog! Check out updates on almost every tab, including Important Dates and Take a Peek at Our Week. We also have a new schedule posted that reflects a modification to our lunch schedule. If you would like to eat lunch with your child, our new lunch time is from 12:30-1:00.

Also, look for the newsletter to come home this Friday! The newsletter will be posted here and on my district web page sometime this weekend. We are off to a fantastic start to the 2012-2013 school year!

The First Day of School

We had a great first day in 2nd grade! I am so excited to see all those seats filled up with eager learners. Today we talked about our three classroom and community rules, "be safe", "be respectful", and "be responsible". Ask your child what those expectations look like in our classroom! We read a funny book, The Teacher from the Black Lagoon, and talked about how to check for understanding as we read. We have so much to learn this year in 2nd grade, and we are off to a fantastic start!

Thank you to all the parents who already returned the signature pages you took home on Back to School Night. If you still have those at home, please return them as soon as possible.

It's going to be a wonderful year at Parkway Elementary, where we are all "wild about learning"!

Sharing Resources

Have you ever had one of those moments when you KNOW you just saw that piece of paper, but you just can't find it when you need it? Well, I want to help you out this year, so anything important that I send home for you to reference throughout the year, I will try to also post on here as a Google doc. Misplace our Classroom Guide you will get at back-to-school night? No problem, you can find it on right here on our blog via Google docs. Check back a little bit later for book report forms, newsletters, and other important documents as they come up!

Click on the following links to go to the attached documents: Ms. Auxier's 2nd Grade Classroom Guide
Welcome letter

See you at Back to School Night!