Evaluation of Second Grade, Set Three

• Bible -- We are doing well completing the work. I just need to remember to keep Bible about a relationship with God and not something to be completed.
• Math -- K. is grasping the concepts well. She does very well with her addition and subtraction math family facts. Learning by playing games and doing activities is a lot of fun, but sometimes challenging to come up with ideas.
• Reading -- K. does very well sounding out words. She was reading a coloring book about the Statue of Liberty this morning and sounding out 'enshrined' and ' successive' and 'centennial' and 'exposition'. Her comprehension is at a good level, but I'm glad we have the book Reading Corner to help develop this area.
• Grammar -- I was very pleased with K.'s listening skills. She is doing well with sentence structure and punctuation. She is getting better (or maybe it is my approach) about assigned writing -- like the shape poem and senses chart. Her dictionary skills are only hampered by her desire to stop and look at the pictures on every page.
• Writing -- I'm so glad I found Writing Hangups. The projects are fun, but make her think, and work a bit. K.'s interest in cursive writing comes and goes, so I'm glad I am only planning on doing the activities this year, keeping the actual learning to write cursive until third grade.
• Spelling -- after some "encouragement", K. has started writing her spelling test very neatly.
• Fine Arts -- I really, really like My Art Book. We did another project this last week. It is a collage and we had lots of fun with it.
• Science -- what a fun time we had learning about air. There were so many experiments and books to read that was hard to pick.
• History -- it is good to be able to find plenty of books that are K.'s level to read to her.