Stay Warm!

Did I post these? I can't even remember the last part of December any more! Well here is a bit from the sing-a-long as well as pajama day (just in case!) 

We are beginning Unit 4 already-Wow, time is going by quickly!

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

Unit 3 Review Week

This is a little photo of a "Meet the Masters" project that Mrs. Fisher was kind enough to do with our class. We certainly love art!
   We will not have a new unit in Reading Street this week, I will post the list of review spelling words tomorrow (I left them on my desk at school!)  But we will do a new math unit with double digit subtraction…hint-it's not borrowing anymore.

Jolly January

It's fun in Second Grade (despite the cold!)

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

Welcome Back!

                           

We are going to have a wonderful new year with lots of interesting things to learn! We will be jumping right in to double digit math and a new unit in Reading Street on the first day. I can't wait to see you all! (Bring your December Math homework in for your stickers, you will get a new one for January on Monday!)

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