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September 2016 Rolling Ridge’s 2 nd Grade Newsletter Our reading program at Rolling Ridge is called Pathways. This program is used in K-5. This month in reading we will… Complete Development Reading Assessment (DRA) to determine guided reading groups Complete Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) Complete word study assessment to determine spelling groups Start meeting with guided reading groups This month in writing we will be… Journaling Handwriting – Reviewing printing uppercase and lowercase Launching Writing Workshop Language Arts News! Math News Our Guided Math approach to teaching and assessing math, allows students to work in small groups with their peers and explore math concepts at their level with the appropriate amount of teacher support. This month in math we will … Identify days, months, years, future and past dates Identify place value - ones and tens Recognize and write ordinal numbers - 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd ,…20 th “Anyone that has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” -- Albert Einstein Tip of the Month: Encourage your child to read anything—not just books! Cereal boxes, road signs, comics, and websites can be read as well. Teach students that computers aren’t just for games and that reading is a natural part of daily life. Page 2 of 2 Rolling Ridge 2 nd grade Rolling Ridge Elementary Volunteers and Contact Information Upcoming Events Sept. 5 Labor Day No SCHOOL Sept. 16 Read-a-thon Fundraiser Oct. 10 Columbus Day NO SCHOOL Rolling Ridge Elementary School 500 East Frederick Drive Sterling, VA 20164 Phone: (571) 434-4540 Fax: (703) 444-7442 E-mails: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] School Hours 7:50 a.m. - 2:35 p.m. Office hours 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Volunteers Do you want to volunteer? There are a number of ways to volunteer: Cut out laminations at home Read with students Help with math centers Fill Thursday folders Volunteer to help Vocabulary Corner Welcome back! Math Vocabulary addition subtraction days of the week months of the year calendar Social Science Vocabulary respect trustworthy law self- discipline responsible
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September
Rolling Ridge’s 2nd Grade Newsletter
Our reading program at Rolling Ridge is called Pathways. This program is used in K-5. This month in reading we will…
Complete Development Reading Assessment (DRA) to determine guided reading groups
Complete Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) Complete word study assessment to determine spelling
groups Start meeting with guided reading groups
This month in writing we will be… Journaling Handwriting – Reviewing printing uppercase and lowercase Launching Writing Workshop Parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives Learning the parts of a sentence
Language Arts News!
Math NewsOur Guided Math approach to teaching and assessing math, allows students to work in small groups with their peers and explore math concepts at their level with the appropriate amount of teacher support.This month in math we will …
Identify days, months, years, future and past dates Identify place value - ones and tens Recognize and write ordinal numbers - 1st, 2nd, 3rd,…
20th
This month in Social Science, students will learn about being a good citizen and look at examples of good citizenship in U.S. history. Some of the topics covered will be:
What is responsibility?What is respect?What is a law?What does it mean to vote?How can you contribute to your community?
We will learn about Martin Luther King, Jr., Helen Keller, George Washington, Susan B. Anthony,
Social Science
Reminders
“Anyone that has never made
a mistake has never tried
anything new.”
-- Albert Einstein
Tip of the Month:Encourage your child to read anything—not just books! Cereal boxes, road signs, comics, and websites can be read as well. Teach students that computers aren’t just for games and that reading is a natural part of daily life.
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Rol l ing Ridge Elementary
Volunteers and Contact InformationUpcoming
Events
Sept. 5 Labor Day No SCHOOL
Sept. 16Read-a-thon
Fundraiser
Oct. 10Columbus Day NO SCHOOL
Students can bring a sweatshirt or sweater to school as the room temperature can vary.
Students must bring their agendas/homework folders back to school each day
Thursday folders will go home every week and
should be signed and come back to school on Friday!
IMPORTANT: Please send back forms from the “Back to School” folders with your child as soon as possible!
Rolling Ridge Elementary School500 East Frederick DriveSterling, VA 20164Phone:(571) 434-4540Fax:(703) 444-7442E-mails:[email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected]
School Hours 7:50 a.m. - 2:35 p.m.Office hours 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
VolunteersDo you want to volunteer? There are a number of ways to volunteer:
Cut out laminations at home
Read with students Help with math
centers Fill Thursday folders Volunteer to help at
classroom celebrations
Please call or e-mail us to let us know how you want to help!
Welcome back!
VocabularyCorner
Math Vocabularyaddition
subtractiondays of the week
months of the yearcalendar
Social Science Vocabulary
respect trustworthy law self-discipline responsible honesty
community citizen
vote
and Abraham Lincoln.
