Sunday, April 6, 2014

UCET-Wow!

It was a great experience for the second grade teachers to go to the UCET conference last week. On Thursday and Friday we took as many classes as we could to learn how to enhance our teaching with technology. I was so excited-I went home and made a great QR code center on contractions. I can't wait for my students to try it our this week! We also will be starting our pet reports on Monday and I love to hear these!
   Our new week in Reading Street:
Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 5, Week 5 (The Signmaker’s Assistant)

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 when we make a mistake?
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  aw, au, augh, al

Vowels  aw, au, augh, al:

August   auto   because   caught   chalk   draw   fault   launch   talk   taught   thaw   walk
High-Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
behind   brought   door   everybody   minute   promise   sorry

afternoon   blame   idea   important   signmaker   townspeople

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.)
apologize   citizen   hoard   interrupt   judgment   protest   scold   troublemaker

Cursive Letters H, K, N, M
Letter Slant

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