Classroom Jobs

Various classroom duties will be rotated among the students throughout the school year.  Some of these "helping duties" require advance preparation at home and some duties require no preparation at all.  The three classroom helper jobs that require advance preparation are as follows:

Reporter:  When your child is the class reporter, he or she is to bring one news item to school on Monday , one news item to school on Wednesday, and one news item to school on Friday.  These items can come from a newspaper, magazine, television, radio or computer report.  At the beginning of the year you will want to help your child select a news item and discover the main idea of that news item.  If possible, I ask that your child bring the actual newspaper or magazine article to school to be displayed after we have discussed it.  The reporter should not read the actual item to the class but just summarize or tell us what it is about.  I also ask that you guide your child in choosing news stories appropriate for second grade students. 

Weather Reporter:  When your child is the weather reporter, he or she is to bring in the weather including high and low temperatures and anything else notable about that day's or the previous day's weather.  Weather reports occur each school day of the week.

Lexicographer: The classroom lexicographer should bring a unique vocabulary word that he or she thinks most of the class has probably never heard before to school on Monday.  Please help your child select a word that we could actually try to use in our every day "conversational language."  The lexicographer will tell the class the word and definition on Monday mornings and we will try to use the word the rest of the week.  This is a fun way to expand our vocabulary.