We are very busy for most of the morning on Fridays doing testing and then teaching a math lesson. To reward our students and reinforce what we have been learning about we try to do something "fun" at the end of the day. These are our students singing around a "campfire" last Friday before we went back to class and made "S'mores" in a microwave. (The recipe was the informational text for our unit.) I have to admit, seeing them sing the "Beaver" song above was fun for me!
Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 1, Week 4 (A Walk in the Desert)
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.)
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Question
of the Week
(This is the theme/question
for this week’s instruction in class.)
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Exploration: What can we learn from exploring new places
and things?
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What can we learn by
exploring the desert?
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Phonics
Skills
(These are the letters and
sounds we are learning in class.)
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Spelling
Patterns and associated Words
(These patterns connect to
our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
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Base
Words and Endings –s, -ed, -ing
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Base
Words and Endings –s, -ed, -ing
dropped dropping
excited exciting hugged
hugging lifted lifting
smiled smiling talked
talking
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High
Frequency Words
(These reading words should
be practiced and memorized.)
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Story
Words
(These reading words are
words from this week’s main selection.)
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animals early
eyes full warm
water
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cactus climate
coyote desert harsh
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Oral
Vocabulary
(Try using these words in
your conversations at home.)
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Handwriting
Practice
(Students can practice the
writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
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arid dunes
extinct forbidding haven
landform ledge precipitation
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Ff, Bb, Ll
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