What a sweet group of kiddos! You have all been doing a great job with those Fry Phrases. We are not looking for perfection (yet) just improvement and I am seeing a lot of that!!! Thank YOU! Keep practicing. Here is our Reading Street update for the week..

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 4, Week 3 (Soil)

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.)
Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?	What changes occur under the ground?
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.)
Vowel Diphthongs: /ou/ spelled ou and ow; /oi/ spelled oi and oy	Vowel Diphthongs: /ou/ spelled ou and ow; /oi/ spelled oi and oy around   coil   cow   flower   gown   howl   moist   noise   out   pound   royal   toy
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
bear   build   couldn’t   father   love   mother   straight	grains   materials   particles   seeps   substances   texture
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.)
blizzard   discovery   fine   incredible   landscape   molten   transform   underneath	Fluency-Fry Phrases

Happy President's Day!

GREAT book reports!! This was the first group to participate...everyone else will get the opportunity to do one as well.

Thanks for all your help with Valentines! We have wonderful parent volunteers!! The children has a marvelous time-and so did I!
   Here is our focus for the new week...

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 4, Week 2 (The Life Cycle of a Pumpkin)

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.)
Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?	How do plants change over time?
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.)
Vowels oo, u	Vowels oo, u book   brook   cook   full   hood   July   pull   push   put   shook   stood   wood
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
everywhere   live /liv/   machines   woman   work   world	bumpy   fruit   harvest   root   smooth   soil   vine
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.)
adapt   ancient   annual   blazing   drought   massive   nutrients   sprout	Cursive Letters t, i, u Letter Slant

Happy Valentines Week!

Yea! It is such a fun time to be seven or eight! Thanks to all of you for your help in Hands-on-Science, our upcoming Valentine's Party, and for your daily help in stations and baggy books. These are such great kiddo's!!!  We will need to do lots of practicing for spelling this week with all the special events!

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 4, Week 1 (A Froggy Fable)

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.)
Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?	How can familiar things help us with changes?
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.)
Syllables:  Consonant + le	Syllables:  Consonant + le able   ankle   apple   bubble   bugle   bundle   cable   giggle   purple   sparkle   tickle   title
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
ago   family   father   mother   warm	clearing   crashed   perfect   pond   spilling   splashing   traveled
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.)
concentration   frown   homeland   patient   preserve   represent   tough   valuable	Cursive Letters l, h, e Letter Formation

Review Week!

Hi Parents!
   We are reviewing Unit 3 this week, so our spelling words contain 3 words from each unit for a total of 15 words. Here they are:
read
deep
party
toad
most
show
bedtime
raindrop
backyard
find
fly
right
hotter
busiest
happier
The test will be on Thursday as Friday is no school (for the students.)