::A Good Home School Connection is essential to academic success::
Here is a list of skills to practice with your child to ensure that 2nd grade is a successful year:
* Basic addition and subtraction facts (0-18)
* telling time
* counting money
* letter and journal writing
* Read to your child
* Ask your child to read to you
*Ask questions about the story you or your child reads such as:
** "What is the setting?
**Who are the characters?
**What is the problem they have?
** How was the problem solved?
* During reading with your child discuss connections, inferences, predictions, questions, and visualizations
* Encourage your child to use academic games and websites (see "links & resources" in the sidebar) to practice and reinforce skills