It's Still Winter!! But We Are Warm Inside..

Yes, it continues to snow, but we are really keeping busy in Second Grade! We are working so hard to understand double-digit subtraction with regrouping. Seriously, a challenge for everyone. Here is a little rhyme we use to help us...
    "More on the floor? Go next door and get ten more!" If the number on the bottom is larger than the top-you need to get a 10 from the number next to it...silly, but effective. Thanks for all you do!

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 3, Week 5 (A Weed Is a Flower)

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.)
Creative Ideas:  What does it mean to be creative?	Where do creative ideas come from?
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.)
Comparative Endings	Comparative Endings busier   busiest   fatter   fattest   happier   happiest   hotter   hottest   smaller   smallest   sooner   soonest
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
clothes   hours   money   neighbor   only   question   taught	agriculture   college   greenhouse   laboratory
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.)
accomplish   excel   opportunity   original   process   research   scientist   unusual	Letters o, w, b, v, z, s, r, and f Letter Formation

MLK Week-Let's Hope for Warmer Temperatures!

    We have felt like we were all packed in together a lot these last few weeks, but the kiddos have been good-natured and endured the cold days of inside recess well. They are a great bunch!
    I want to heap lots of praise and gratitude upon all of you for insisting that your second-grader does his/her math homework. These last 2 weeks have been a time for more district testing and I am bursting with pride over out little class! Almost every child (23/24) passed both the computation and story problem math tests for the district!!! The bar was raised and the minimum score is significantly higher than it was 2 years ago and we still did very well. Yahoo!!!! We are showing improvement in oral fluency (reading) too. Please keep doing the great job you are already doing in supporting your child's education.
    Here is the information for next week's Reading Street..

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 3, Week 4 (Rosa and Blanca)

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.)
Creative Ideas:  What does it mean to be creative?	When does a creative idea lead to a surprise?
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 i:  i, ie, igh, y	Long i:  i, ie, igh, y blind   bright   child   cry   find   flight   fly   myself   right   sky   spider   wild
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
alone   buy   daughters   half   many    their   youngest	chiles   luckiest   tortillas
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.)
abundant   assist   beam   dismay   efficient   forever   generous   situation	Manuscript to Cursive Letters a, d, c, n, m, and x/ Letter Formation

Compound Words..

WE have been studying compound words, narrative poems and AAAH..verb tenses this week. They are actually doing quite well!

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 3, Week 3 (Anansi Goes Fishing)

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.)
Creative Ideas:  What does it mean to be creative?	How can creative thinking solve a problem?
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.)
Compound Words	Compound Words: backyard   basketball   bathtub   bedtime   birthday   driveway   mailbox   raindrop   riverbank   someone   something   weekend
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
been   believe   caught   finally   today    tomorrow   whatever	delicious   justice   lazy   weave
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.)
boast   consume   contentment   cure   gloat   incident   prey   shrewd   snicker	Manuscript to Cursive Letter Formation

Welcome 2013!!

We're frozen-but we are back!!

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 3, Week 2 (Dear Juno)

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.)
Creative Ideas:  What does it mean to be creative?	In what creative ways do we communicate?
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 o:  o, oa, ow	Long o:  o, oa, ow ago   bowl   float   goat   hold   most   open   show   slow   toad   toast   told
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
answer   company   faraway   parents   picture   school   wash	envelope   persimmons   photograph   smudged
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.)
correspond   cove   deaf   footprint   imitate   postage   transport   sign language	Numbers 1 – 10 Number Formation