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Their New Years Resolutions! Each student wrote out some goals they have for the New Year and this had me thinking, how can I help them? I came up with a few resources (mainly websites) to aid in you helping your child succeed.

www.pearsonsuccessnet.com (This website requires your child’s individual username and password. Please contact me if you do not know what that is and I will be happy to give it to you. This is a great site with personalized language arts lessons depending on what each child needs to improve on).

www.abcya.com (This website is full of educational games. The games are broken down by grade level so feel free to master second grade concepts and then move on! )

www.storyonline.com (This website has actors and actresses reading children’s books out loud. I use this in class sometimes and students love it).

www.mathfactcafe.com  (This website allows you print out customized math worksheets, including math facts, money, telling time and more!).

http://i-canyonsparenttoolkit.canyonsdistrict.org/2nd-grade.html (This is a link to the canyons district website with specifics based on the report card. There are links provided to supplemental activities depending on what your child needs to continue to work on).

Some other activities are of course, reading at home with your child and discussing with them what they read.  Now that we are at the half waypoint of second grade your child should be doing most of the reading. A good rule is the “five finger rule”; if there are five words on a page that your child does not know that book is probably too hard for them.

Another activity is math facts. This can be done with flash cards, math fact café website, out loud while in the car, anywhere you have an extra minute, be creative!

http://butler.canyonsdistrict.org/ Also, be sure to check out our school website for information on school activities and links to any missing flyers that may have not made it home.

I hope this list can be a springboard for ideas on ways to support your child outside of school. I am lucky to work with this great group of students!