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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-6: Ms. Keys' & Ms. Kraybill's Second Grade Classroom

Welcome to our class! We have a great year of learning and fun waiting for you in Room B-6. As it says in the picture above, "B-6 is the best!"

We hope that you come to our class after having a great summer. Perhaps you bicyled and swam at the pool. Perhaps you spent lots of time playing with friends or traveling. No matter what you have done, we will want to hear all about it on the first day of school.

Our classroom is special, because there are two teachers. Ms. Kraybill teaches literacy in the morning and Ms. Keys teaches math, science and social studies in the afternoon. It's a fun arrangement!

We can't wait to meet you on the first day of school. For your parents, there is more information on this page about how our classroom works.

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 2nd Grade

Challenge
When Ms. Keys takes over in the afternoon, Ms. Kraybill doesn't take the rest of the day off! Instead, she becomes our school's Challenge teacher. She offers 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.

From the Principal

- Mr. Wolfer

KEEP IN TOUCH!

You can contact either of us by calling the school's Front Office
at 303/388-5969 and then asking them to put a message in our mailboxes.
Or you can e-mail us!
Ms. Keys e-mail is faith_keys@dpsk12.org
Ms. Kraybill's e-mail is cynthia_kraybill@dpsk12.org

SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Say, are you wondering about classroom supplies?
Look at the Grade 2 Supply List