We Love our Tanner Dance time!
     This is going to be another great week-our students are really getting into the swing of things in Second Grade! Thanks to the volunteers who have helped get things going for us in Practice Stations, the students just love that time! You will notice that most of the words tested in Spelling are on the practice worksheets daily, but they are also listed below. I give the students 2 story words to write as well, and they are still up on the wall where we have been using them all week. It is like using our room as a dictionary, but some students forget to look. (We'll keep practicing!)
     Baggy books will go home this Friday. They are chosen by the lexile score your child got on the first reading assessment of the year. If you find that your student is repeatedly finding the books too easy (more than one..) please let me know on the form.
  What a cute group of children-I'm enjoying having them in my class!

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 1, Week 4 (A Walk in the Desert)

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?	What can we learn by exploring the desert?
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.)
Base Words and Endings –s, -ed,    -ing	Base Words and Endings –s, -ed,    -ing dropped   dropping   excited   exciting   hugged   hugging   lifted   lifting   smiled   smiling   talked   talking
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
animals   early   eyes   full   warm   water	cactus   climate   coyote   desert   harsh
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.)
arid   dunes   extinct   forbidding   haven   landform   ledge   precipitation	Ff, Bb, Ll