Amanda Holt

2nd grade teacher

423-623-3811 x301

Courses Taught:

Second grade General Education 

Bio

 

Welcome to my page!

This is my 18th year teaching second grade at Newport Grammar School. I attended Newport Grammar as a child and I'm so proud to teach here!

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Education:

B.S. K-6 education from East Tennessee State University

Master's degree -Curriculum & Instruction from Lincoln Memorial University 

Amazon Wish List:

 

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Weekly Newsletter

 

 

Reading- We will be reading “Rosie Revere, Engineer” by Andrea Beaty.

Vocabulary- engineer, perplexed, thrill, inventions, sputtered, wheezed


Math- We will be learning about graphing- tally charts, bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs.

Weekly math facts 

3/27- Review of -1-5 facts

We have a new AR contest starting today. Students will be required to read three books and take an AR test this nine weeks, too.  



 

Upcoming Events


 

March 20th - Grade Cards

March 27th-1pm Dismissal

March 30th-April 3rd- Spring Break

April 9th- Wonderworks Field trip

April 22nd-Progress Reports

May 6th- Pigeon Forge Snow/Downtown Flavortown Good Behavior trip

May 13th- Wax Museum

May 15th- 1pm Dismissal

May 22nd- 10am Dismissal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Spelling words

 

 

cable, silent, hotel, robot, quiet, paper, broken, tiger, photo, erase, cradle, locate, music, basic, baby

 

 

Summer Reading Expectations

All students must read 10 picture books or 3 chapter books this summer and keep a reading log. Reading log must be in the student's handwriting.

Choose to do one of the following: 

  1. Attend 2 summer library activities (Stokely Memorial Library, NGS Summer Library Program, or other library programs). Write down the activities and the dates attended.

OR

  1. Choose 3 books and write a paragraph of the book summary and draw a picture.

Give the list of activities and reading log to your second grade teacher. Students who complete the summer reading program will receive two 100's in language arts.


 


Homework Hotline 615-298-6636

Students grades can be checked at the following website: 

https://sis-newport.tnk12.gov/aspen/logon.do