HOMEWORK

Monday - Spelling, Vocabulary, Math

Tuesday - Language Arts, Math

Wednesday - Math

Thursday - Spelling review, Math

*This may vary according to student needs.

    Occasionally, special projects or activities may be required on any night for any subject.  Review sheets in social studies and science will also be sent home periodically for parents to go over with their child in preparation for chapter or unit tests.
    Accuracy is critical in your child's homework since homework is an opportunity to practice skills covered in the classroom.  Please check over your child’s homework assignments.  Then, initial and date each assignment after corrections have been made.
   Each child is asked to read orally five nights a week to a family member or other adult for at least 15 minutes.  Please note this on your student's Reading Calendar.  The books read during this time may be included on the Texas Readers List and any other reading program in which we are taking part.
   The school-home connection is very important to a child’s academic success.
 
 

Field Trips

In addition to our class field trip,  second-graders go to some other neat places during the school year.  Each teacher walks her class up the street to the neighborhood Mr. Jim's Pizza.  The children tour the store. This trip would not be complete without a sample!  The children are given a quick lesson on how to make a pizza and are then given the opportunity to practice what they have learned.  Everyone leaves with a full stomach and a smile on his/her face.

Another tour that we try to implement annually is our Wetland Walk to Rush Creek.  One of our former Dunn parents, an EPA Wetland Manager, prepares a trail along Rush Creek for the second-graders to travel.  Yellow flags are found along the trail to indicate special points of interest, such as mysterious holes, trees, native plants, and signs of flooding.  This walk really gets the children in touch with Mother Nature!