South Side Sentinel

I hope you all enjoyed family and had some down time over the winter break. It will be a struggle to get students back into routine. Please try to maintain bedtimes and mealtimes as best as you can to help them ease back into their daily schedule.

Looking forward, we have a lot of work ahead of us. Students successfully reviewed from the previous year and dove into grade level standards this fall. It's now time to break out the challenging pieces heading into spring. Second grade focus is moving from learning to read to reading to learn (and enjoy), in math they will move into adding and subtracting with regrouping. Please work with your Second Grader on adding/subtracting within 20 so they are fluent (no finger counting). Third grade will dig into fractions (now is the time to have your kiddo help you cook!) and work on completing the writing process with opinion and informational writing.

Please be sure to check your student's red folder every night it comes home for notes from teachers, spelling lists and work to see what they have been doing.

Please note the following pieces we are working on here at South Side:

Third Quarter Character Traits: Attitude

It's important students learn to focus on positive attitudes. Many of our kiddo's emit the "I can't do this" attitude. They may not know right now, but they can do hard things and will be successful when they try. We celebrate when students try to lift up others and persevere through the hard times.

There is a lot to do every night, teachers understand busy family schedules. Please make sure there is down time for your kids, allow them to quietly read and study their spelling words and get to bed at a reasonable time. They are growing and eating a lot!