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BROMWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (214)
2500 East
Fourth Avenue,
80206-4214
(Columbine Street at East Fourth Avenue)

Telephone:
(303) 388-5969
Fax: (720) 424-9355
E-mail: Bromwell@dpsk12.org

Mr. Jonathan Wolfer, Principal

B-5: Ms. Witt's Second Grade Classroom

Welcome to second grade, and to my classroom. Second grade is a very important year. Students become more and more responsible for their own learning. You will read bigger books, write longer stories, and work on more interesting science projects and math puzzles. In each case, whether the word is "bigger," "longer," or "more interesting," what it means is that it will be more fun for you. Second grade is great!

Here are some fun activities to help you get ready for the first day of school:

Go to the public library, join the summer reading program, and read, read, read!

Play games that involve numbers: count money, tell time, practice addition and subtraction facts.

Practice your handwriting. Know how to read and write the upper and lower case letters. If you go on a trip, keep a journal. Then add some pictures, and VOILA, you are an author and illustrator of a travelogue. "Voila," by the way, is a French word that means "There you have it!" and is often used by magicians and waiters at fancy restaurants. A travelogue is a book about traveling, and travelogues are enjoyed by everybody, not just magicians and waiters. I love travelogues, and so do most second graders.

Even after school begins, I recommend you keep up with these activities. Reading, playing math games, and writing in a journal are three ways to help yourself become a strong and successful student.

During this year, we will travel together through the world of education. I am very happy to be traveling with you on this journey. It will be a rewarding year!

What are second-graders really like?

There's lots of review in second grade, so that students truly master all the skills presented by their first grade teachers. Your child will also learn to recognize familiar words more rapidly, read and spell new words, add and subtract faster, compose more complex sentences, and increase his or her reading and speaking vocabularies. Your child will develop both a deeper and a broader understanding of the sciences. He or she will learn to identify and value people from many different cultures. Math becomes something more logical and interconnected, not just a group of various facts. Math is still largely concrete in second grade, but abstract ideas and concepts are beginning to come into view. This is a very rich year, academically, and an important time for your child's development as a thinker and a learner.

Your second-grader is also continuing to learn a lot about being a person. Second graders learn more about being friends to others, about being good group members, and about being well-behaved in school. You can help by discussing the value of respect. Talk about how relationships work among friends and with teachers at school. With a little regular encouragement, most second graders are ready to take on the world!

Additional information about school this year

Challenge
Ms. Kraybill is our Challenge instruction again this year, offering alternative or supplemental instruction to qualifying students – probably about one hour a week in the afternoons. If you have a question about who qualifies and why, please talk to her. She will most often work with Challenge students in our classroom. She may also sometimes take these students to Room A-1b for a separate learning activity.

Special Education/PD Center
As with Ms. Kraybill and the Challenge students, at our school there are teachers and staff members who work with our L.D. studneets (that is, our mild-moderate learning disabled students) or P.D. students (our physically disabled students). They will sometimes work in our classrooms and sometimes in their own rooms (A-0 or A-1a).

Bromwell Eagles Always Care
The B.E.A.C. program, in past years, was our school's character-education initiative. The B.E.A.C. committee was a team of parents and teachers who helped integrate character ed programming into our classroom activities, usually on a weekly basis. Many of the parents who have spear-headed this work in the past, however, have now moved on -- as have the principals and teachers who were involved. We hope the program can make a comeback, and we are particularly interested in finding parent volunteers to help bring it into classrooms this year.

A Note From Our Principal...

- Mr. Wolfer

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