September 2025 Newsletter

2nd Grade

Important Dates

• September 1: No school

• September 3: Late Start, school starts at 11:05 am

• September 16: Open House, 5:00-6:30 pm

• September 17: Late Start, school starts at 11:05 am

• September 30: Picture Day

Little Fort Elementary Information

• Address: 1775 Blanchard Rd, Waukegan, IL 60087

• Phone: (224) 303-3700

• Attendance Line: (224) 303-3759

School Reminders

• Please remember to send your child to school with a water bottle and their Chromebook.

• Being at school and being on time is very important.

• The district's attendance goal is 95%, and the school was at 96% for the month of August.

How to Help at Home

Reading

• Have your child read at home daily for about 20 minutes.

• Ask your child to name a character from the story and tell you one thing about them.

Math

• Practice math at home by playing free online math games on websites like www.mathisfun.com.

• Play 'Go Fish' using a deck of cards to find combinations that equal 10.

• Use coins to practice counting by 1s, 5s, and 10s.

• Help your child make a grocery list and figure out how much everything will cost.

Other Activities

• Go over the calendar date each day with your child by saying, "Yesterday was... Today is...".

Learning Objectives

CKLA/ELA/Knowledge

• Students will be learning core vocabulary and about Early Asian Civilizations.

• Students will make connections to other texts and their own experiences.

• Students will use comprehension strategies to answer questions about a text and retell the text by describing the beginning, middle, and end.

CKLA/Phonics/Skills

• Students will recall story details and discuss the structure of the story (beginning, middle, and end).

• Students will review letter sounds, write words as they sound, and practice reading aloud with accuracy and expression.

• Students will be assigned weekly spelling/tricky words for assessments.

Writing

• Students will be writing narratives and will introduce characters, a setting, and what happens in the beginning, middle, and end.

Math

• Students will re-establish math routines.

• Students will use number lines, number grids, and practice skip counting, odd and even numbers, and finding different ways to make 10.

• Students will build fact fluency by finding combinations of 10.

PBIS

• The acronym PBIS stands for Property, Others, Ourselves, Learning.

Teacher Contact Information

• Mrs. Seal: [email protected], Room 202

• Mtra. Pepa: [email protected], Room 205

• Mrs. Bozik: [email protected], Room 204