We are busy in Second Grade!

We appreciate your help with your students in their baggy books.  There is quite a lot of variety in every level, so we hope that you will give several books a try before you decide they are way too easy. **Thanks to the baggy book volunteers for beginning to help us this week.

Some important Math information:

Your children do a "color sheet" to start each topic with our whole class. This is basically "in class" practice.  We do other activities to reinforce the concept too. Next, we take a "quick check" to see how they are doing with that topic. I keep a record of the quick check and spiral review scores for grading purposes. They are mini-assessments. I do not keep scores of the whole group activities since we help each other. I also keep a record to see if they are completing math homework. You have a new October math packet. Just one page a day will get it done in plenty of time!

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 1, Week 5 (The Strongest One)

Below are the skills and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days.  (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. In an effort to teach the entire grade level core, we will send home the “weekly study skills” on the day that we begin a new 5-day instructional sequence.)  You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Exploration:  What can we learn from exploring new places and things?	How does exploration help us find answers?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Consonant digraphs	Consonant digraphs: bunch   chase   itch   math   patch   shape   that   them   whale   what   when   wish
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
gone   learn   often   pieces   though   together   very	dangerous   gnaws   narrator   relatives
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
delicate   exhibit   genius   inquire   resist   satisfaction   stun   sturdy	Tt, Hh, Kk Word spacing