A Little Bit of Spring!

      It looks like things are warming up!! We had fun this last week learning about what it takes to be a good pet owner, I am looking forward to the reports our students are working on to tell about their ideal pet! We will have 6-7 students present each day, beginning on April 7th.
Here is our new unit of study for this week…

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 5, Week 4 (Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores)

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.)
Responsibility:  What does it mean to be responsible?	How can we be responsible friends and neighbors?
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.)
The sounds of /f/ph, gh, ck, ng	The sounds of /f/ph, gh, ck, ng: backtrack   clang   cough   duckling   enough   graph   laugh   phone   photo   rough   ticket   tough
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	adventure   climbed   clubhouse   exploring   greatest   truest   wondered
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.)
advantage   appreciate   communicate   defiant   demand   ferocious   firmly   respect	None listed

See You at Art-a-palooza!

This week is a fun time for us to celebrate the arts! I hope you can come by and see the lovely Kandinsky-inspired work our students have done. They are awesome! (Thursday)

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 5, Week 3 (Bad Dog, Dodger!)

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.)
Responsibility:  What does it mean to be responsible?	How can we be responsible animal owners?
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.)
Silent Consonants:  kn, wr, gn, mb	Silent Consonants: climb   comb   gnat   knee   knob   knock   lamb   sign   wrap   wren   write   wrong
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
above   enough   toward   whole   word	Chased   chewing   dripping   grabbed    practice    treat   wagged
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.)
behavior   companion   confident   consider   cooperate   obedient   properly   reprimand	Cursive Letters z, s, r, f Letter Smoothness

The Luck of the Day!

Happy St. Patricks Day to you! We have fun in class learning about folklore and fables, this is one of our favorites. Great job going on IXL to all of you-we have done more than 5,000 problems as a class already. Stickers go out tomorrow to anyone who has logged on and practiced this last week.

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 5, Week 2 (Carl the Complainer)

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.)
Responsibility:  What does it mean to be responsible?	How can we be responsible community members?
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.)
Prefixes:  un-, re-, pre-, dis-	Prefixes: disagree   disappear   discolor   preheat   preschool   regroup   rerun   rewind   unlock   unpack   unplug   unsafe
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
become   enough   good-bye   nothing   people   stories   together	annoy   complain   mumbles   P.M.   signature   shrugs
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.)
concern   contribute   fragile   litter   pellets   persuade   pollute   release	Cursive Letters o, w, b, v Letter Spacing

Welcome Daylight Savings (and maybe spring!)

It was so much fun to meet with you all and talk about your darling children! I had such a great time sharing some of our success at SEP's last week. Thanks for coming.
   This week we will finish up geometry and get ready for fractions in math.Our selection in reading street tells about firefighters and reviews suffixes.

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 5, Week 1 (Firefighter!)

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.)
Responsibility:  What does it mean to be responsible?	Why should we be responsible for doing a good job?
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.)
Suffixes:  -ly, -ful, -er, -or, -ish	Suffixes: cheerful   fighter   graceful   hardly   helper   quickly   sailor   slowly   teacher   visitor   weekly   yearly
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
break   family   heard   listen   once   pull	building   burning   masks   quickly   roar   station   tightly
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.)
caretaker   community   instrument   lug   operation   responsible   supplies   teamwork	Cursive Letters g, y, q Letter Smoothness