Main idea and supporting details

One of the hardest skills for second graders is to pick out the main idea from what they are reading. They also use main idea and supporting details in their writing. When they use this effectively in writing, their writing stays on the topic. For the next several weeks the children will be bringing home main idea and supporting idea worksheets to help them with this skill.

Water Project

Our Walk-a-Thon is on Wednesday. Remember to send in your pledges. We read A Cool Drink of Water. It is about all different ways people need to get water.

Subtraction Strategies

We have started working on subtraction. Today we worked on counting back and counting up.