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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, we review all work that comes home considering my 2nd graders teacher has marked correct work incorrectly. Cant wait for this year to be OVERRRRRR.

I keep an eye on anything that is repeat errors. I know he rushes and he is very literal. So for example, on a spelling test he is supposed to write out the sentence that is read by the teacher orally. The instructions say: don't forget capitalization and periods. My son always puts a period and then gets dinged when it (supposedly) needs a question mark or exclamation. We have repeatedly told him that while it says periods, it should really remind them to use Capitalization and appropriate punctuation. This means instead of getting 100% he gets a 94%.

I have noticed a huge focus on math in the past two years without a reciprocal focus on reading full books or texts and learning how to transfer your thoughts to sentences and then logical order. So, I am bringing back summer reading lists with book reports this summer.

We have also started playing cribbage to work on pattern recognition, strategy, simple probability, and holding smaller numbers and simple calculations in your head. 
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Did you do all this in 1st grade too?[/quote]

We had a wonderful experience with K and 1st. I reviewed all of his papers that came home but there wasnt a whole lot to add except we did more baking math and continued to read 20-30 min every night. This year really moved the needle for him, unfortunately. He was given way too much chromebook time and was even encouraged to " " finish up quickly and you can get extra game time on your chromebook and in some areas he is way ahead of his classmates and the teacher just lets him play computer games because he already completed the component that the other kids are working on for 20-40min per day.

I didnt know that latter part until about 2 weeks ago. He was reading 3-5 books a week until around winter break. Thats what he was doing during that time and then he slow faded into games because he wasnt allowed to go the library to check out more books, he was tired of his backpack being too heavy (he walks), and he already read through the entire class library. He was not very forthcoming because what kid wouldnt love playing "math" games for 30 minutes plus every day. I literally watched my kid go from being excited to go to school from K/1st to gradually just being blase about it through this spring. I thought he was just bored (and he is) but its also that the teacher is boring and the chromebook rots their brains.  
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