Saturday, February 8, 2014

More Second Grade Fun!

    We celebrated the 100th day of school last week, so we decided that our students should have 100 year old teachers. (It was harder for Miss Mellor to look old!) We had a great day.
    This week we will celebrate Valentine's Day on Friday as well as doing our usual routine. It will be busy and fun as well. Here is our new reading outline…
Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 4, Week 3 (Soil)

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.)

Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?

What changes occur under the ground?
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.)

Vowel Diphthongs: /ou/ spelled ou and ow; /oi/ spelled oi and oy

Vowel Diphthongs: /ou/ spelled ou and ow; /oi/ spelled oi and oy
around   coil   cow   flower   gown   howl   moist   noise   out   pound   royal   toy
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
bear   build   couldn’t   father   love   mother   straight

grains   materials   particles   seeps   substances   texture

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.)
blizzard   discovery   fine   incredible   landscape   molten   transform   underneath

Cursive Letters k, j, p
Letter Spacing
 

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