Please check your child's assignment notebook for nightly homework
assignments and important reminders, and sign in the comment section.
Students should be reading every night for at least 15 minutes. (It counts
if Mom or Dad reads to them as well, on those nights when they are just too
tired.)
The bringing home, completing and returning to school of all homework is your
child's responsibility, not yours. (Please do not make a second trip back to
school with it)
Homework will usually be given four nights a week with a book report given on
Friday.
Homework is due the next day unless otherwise noted in the assignment
notebook. Book reports are usually due the following Wednesday.
If your child needs help, guidance on your part is certainly recommended,
however, avoid too much involvement and homework battles. No more than a
1/2 hour should be needed for written work.
Encourage your child to proofread and edit written homework for spelling,
punctuation, and capitalization. Try NOT to correct for them. Encourage
them to self-correct or circle any words of which s/he is unsure; best
effort, not perfection is the goal. (Their homework errors actually help us
to know what we need to reteach or reinforce.)
Missed homework will be made up either the next day or the next evening. If
there are a number of nights missed due to illness, your child will have
ample time to make it up.
Practice with telling time, and counting coins in real life situations would
help to reinforce these developmental skills with your second grader. Please
keep practicing those addition and subtraction facts regularly to improve
accuracy, speed and confidence.
Finally...if a homework assignment turns into a nightmarish battle between
you and your child... STOP! Return it to school incomplete and I will deal
with it.
Thanks for all of your help and support!
