Back from the holidays!

We are busy getting ready for our Tanner Dance performance on December 6th! It will probably be in the afternoon-I will let you know as soon as I do.  Here is our Reading Street information...Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 2, Week 5 (One Good Turn Deserves Another)

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.)
Working Together:  How can we work together?	How can we work together to solve problems?
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.)
Long a:  a, ai, ay	Long a:  a, ai, ay away   brain   main   paint   play   raise   say   stay   tail   today   tray   wait
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
behind   brought   door   everybody   minute   promise   sorry	armadillo   creature   grateful   groaned   snorted
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.)
coax   conflict   deserve   mope   pursue   ramp   resolve   startle	Qq, Vv Letter Spacing