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