Thanks for such a great "Teacher Appreciation" Week!

I hope our classroom is a happy place to be, I really enjoy teaching your children and I sincerely thank you for the kind notes, classroom supplies and flowers. It was such a fun week!
    Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 6, Week 3 (A Birthday Basket for Tia)

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?	Why are family celebrations special?
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:  -ion, -tion, -ture	Syllables:  -ion, -tion, -ture action   caution   feature   fixture   future   mixture   motion   nation   nature   picture   section   station
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
been   believe   caught   finally   tomorrow   whatever	aunt   bank   basket   collects   favorite   present
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.)
angle   brilliant   celebration   create   custom   inspect   snapshot   tradition	Cursive Letters G, S, I Letter Size

Field Trip tho Week!

So, we are hoping we don't get this kind of weather for our Field Trip on Tuesday! Please help your child dress appropriately for whatever we get!

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 6, Week 2 (Red, White, and Blue:  The Story of the American Flag)

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 traditions and celebrations involve our country’s flag?
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.)
Abbreviations	Abbreviations: Aug.  Dec.   Dr.   Feb.   Jan.   Mr.    Mrs.   Ms.   Nov.   Oct.   Rd.   St.
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
answer   company   faraway   parents   picture   school   wash	America   birthday   flag   freedom   nicknames   stars   stripes
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.)
allegiance   frayed   history   independence   indivisible   patriotic   symbol   unfurl	Cursive Letters B, P, R, T, F Letter Smoothness

Earth Week Fun!

 A gold star for us! Our class chalk mural was the 1st runner up at the Chalk-a-thon! We had fun reading about and practicing ways we can take care of our earth. It was a review week and our kiddos did a good job there too. Next week we will have our final oral reading assessment on Thursday. I am confident our students will do a great job!

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 6, Week 1 (Just Like Josh Gibson)

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?	Why are sports traditions important in our country?
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.)
Inflected Endings	Inflected Endings: heavier   heaviest   lighter   lightest   liked   liking   planned   planning   skipped   skipping   tried   trying
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
guess   pretty   science   shoe   village   watch	bases   cheers   field   plate   sailed   threw
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.)
athlete   challenge   champion   dainty   disguise   effort   professional   shortstop	Cursive Letters U, V, W, Y Letter and Word Spacing

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