Sunday, November 11, 2012

Great to Celebrate!


      It was so enjoyable to see you all and celebrate the many accomplishments of your children! I think we have a darling class.
      In math we are working on money-counting it by adding on and knowing the value of each coin. This is critical information, even though we rarely use cash these days. It still is the foundation for our monetary system!
     Here is the background for our new reading unit...

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 2, Week 4 (The Bremen Town Musicians)

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?


Why is it a good idea to work together?
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.)

Plurals  -s, -es, -ies


Plurals  -s, -es, -ies
babies   baby   lunch   lunches   note   notes   stories   story   switch   switches   tune   tunes
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)

bought   people    pleasant   probably   scared   shall   sign

excitement   mill   monsters   musicians   robbers
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.)
depend   familiar   insist   miserable   partnership   solution  struggle   survival

Ww, Yy
Letter Slant


   

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