Sunday, May 18, 2014

Last Week of Stations!

This year has gone by so swiftly!! I can't believe it will be our last week for stations this week. It's a good thing we have a very interesting unit on "Cowboys!"
Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 6, Week 4 (Cowboys)

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.)

Traditions:  Are traditions and celebrations important in our lives?

What can we learn about cowboy traditions?
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:  -ness (awareness), -less (careless), -able (agreeable), -ible (horrible)
Suffixes:  -ness, -less

careless   darkness   fearless   fitness   goodness   helpless   kindness   sadness   sickness   thankless   useless   weakness
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   half   many   their   youngest

campfire   cattle   cowboy   galloped    herd   railroad   trails

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.)
buckaroo   climate    drover   lariat   legend   livestock   occupation   rawhide

Cursive Letters Z, Q, X
Letter Slant

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