Homework:
All 2nd graders should be reading at LEAST 15 minutes every night. Please encourage your child to read at least part of this time in Spanish. As the children become more comfortable reading in English, they tend to neglect the Spanish reading. In the past, the kids who read in Spanish and English at home on a regular basis, are the children who read better at the end of the year. If you want to become good at anything, you need to practice to make it easy and fun. If you would like appropriate leveled Spanish books to be sent home, please let me know. They are not the most interesting, but they are great practice.
Not all students strengths are the same, so why should their homework be the same? Homework this year will be assigned based on meaning. Homework will not be assigned for the sole reason of keeping your child busy, but rather will be assigned when the homework is meaningful and beneficial to your child. Homework will be determined based on classroom work. If after a particular lesson your child appears to need a bit more practice, I will assign homework that allows for this additional practice. Because the assignment of homework will be done on more of an individual basis, this could mean that not all students are receiving the same assignments, or that some students might have an assignment while others might not.
It is your child's responsibility to keep track of his/her homework folder and ALL of its contents. Based on past experiences and practices, I strongly urge the children to find a special place they can call "theirs" to help them realize that anything placed in this space is school related and needs to be completed and brought back to school. This will also assist them in locating their backpack every morning and allow them to keep track of their studies.
All 2nd graders should be reading at LEAST 15 minutes every night. Please encourage your child to read at least part of this time in Spanish. As the children become more comfortable reading in English, they tend to neglect the Spanish reading. In the past, the kids who read in Spanish and English at home on a regular basis, are the children who read better at the end of the year. If you want to become good at anything, you need to practice to make it easy and fun. If you would like appropriate leveled Spanish books to be sent home, please let me know. They are not the most interesting, but they are great practice.
Not all students strengths are the same, so why should their homework be the same? Homework this year will be assigned based on meaning. Homework will not be assigned for the sole reason of keeping your child busy, but rather will be assigned when the homework is meaningful and beneficial to your child. Homework will be determined based on classroom work. If after a particular lesson your child appears to need a bit more practice, I will assign homework that allows for this additional practice. Because the assignment of homework will be done on more of an individual basis, this could mean that not all students are receiving the same assignments, or that some students might have an assignment while others might not.
It is your child's responsibility to keep track of his/her homework folder and ALL of its contents. Based on past experiences and practices, I strongly urge the children to find a special place they can call "theirs" to help them realize that anything placed in this space is school related and needs to be completed and brought back to school. This will also assist them in locating their backpack every morning and allow them to keep track of their studies.