Flower Hill Elementary School

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Mrs. Allison Bohan
Ms. Abby Cote
Mrs. Mathy Downing
Mrs. Eileen Rubinstein

Thank you to all of the parents and children who helped to make our Halloween parade and parties successful.  Please check your child’s homework folder for information about parent-teacher conferences.  Most conferences will be held on November 11^th and November 12^th. 

Homework

All second graders will have a homework folder that he/she needs to bring home every day, and then back to school the next day.  Please check it for homework assignments, completed work, and notes from your child’s teacher.  Homework packets will be sent home weekly. In addition, every Wednesday the children bring home their “Wednesday Folders”.  Please look through the folder, take out the papers, sign the parent signature page, and send the empty folder back to school with your child.

Reading & Writing

In reading, the children have been learning comprehension strategies.  They learned about the elements of a story: characters, setting, problem, and solution.  We are paying extra attention to learning how to write our ideas and responses.  Now we are reading to be informed.  The children are learning how to use different text features such as a table of contents, an index, captions, labels, headings, and diagrams.  We are pleased that so many children have been reading for the Book It program.  Keep up the good work!
Our second graders have been writing personal narratives and they have been learning ways to revise and edit their work.   They have been continuing to learn spelling strategies, too.

Math

In our math classes we have finished Unit 1.  The children have learned about place value, patterns, and different ways to collect and display data.   They learned how to interpret data from tally charts, bar graphs, and pictographs.  They have also made bar graphs to display data. 

Social Studies and Science

In science the children have been learning, and exploring, the concepts of balance and weighing.  In social studies, the children have been learning about citizenship and government.  We have been using our knowledge of text features to help us read for information in social studies.