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Welcome to 2nd Grade!

We have an exciting year full of new experiences and challenges ahead of us. One important aspect of 2nd grade is to develop each child’s sense of self and raise or maintain their confidence in their abilities.

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Characteristics of this age group

Emotional Characteristics and Needs:

• Still quite vulnerable
• Is capable of exhibiting greater control over their emotions
• Still tends to respond on either a totally positive or totally negative basis
• Remains quite dependent on their parents
• Need for tangible expressions of acceptance and warmth
• Have a strong need for a sense of belonging

Social Characteristics and Needs:

• Beginning to move away from totally dependent relationship with their family.
• Begins to experience and identify with other adults
• Relationships with own peer group are "touch and go" because they are still not able to relate consistently with others in the group.

Moral Characteristics and Needs:

• Likes to have structure
• If structure does not come from the home they will "create" their own guidelines and structure to fulfill their need for structure

Intellectual Characteristics and Needs:

• Intellectual development is not ready for real interpersonal dialogue
• Perceptions tend to be dominated by their own point of view
• Is not easily able to accept another’s point of view if it conflicts with their own point of view
• Still have a rather short attention span

Faith Characteristics and Needs:

• Nearing a stage where they can stand back, reflect, and absorb new thoughts
• Spiritual needs center around a sense of wonder and rudimentary contemplation
• Secure and trusting relationships with parents and other adults continue to build important foundations for Christian faith.
  *Used with permission of The Department of Education, Green Bay Diocese, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Parent – Teacher Partnerships

A parent – teacher partnership is vital to the success of the 2nd grader. The partnership takes various forms throughout the year. The base and most important form is the support that the parents and teacher lend each other. The review of corrected work at home, ensuring homework is completed and studying for tests takes place, communications between parents and teacher about family issues, concerns, improvements seen, all lead to the student’s needs being met more successfully at home and school.

There are also weekly opportunities for parents, who are able, to volunteer around the school and in the classroom. This gives parents an ability to observe and take a greater role in the daily learning environment of their child and his/her classmates.

Home School Communications

You will be receive from your child’s teacher lots of communications throughout the year. It will come in various forms. Each month you will receive a class newsletter highlighting some of the topics and activities that are occurring in class. You will receive at the end of each week two folders of corrected work. One is a Math folder which contains selected pieces of class math work, quizzes, and tests. The other folder is a Friday folder which contains selected work from other subject assignments, quizzes, and tests. Each folder contains comments about the work and a space for comments by you. There are two scheduled conference times during the year – one in the fall and one in spring. Additional conferences can be arranged as needed.

The best ways to reach the Teacher: Email, voicemail, write a note in the assignment notebook or drop by after school Tuesday thru Friday.

Special Events To Look Forward to in 2nd Grade:

     First Reconciliation – January

     First Eucharist – April

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