The Luck of the Day!

Happy St. Patricks Day to you! We have fun in class learning about folklore and fables, this is one of our favorites. Great job going on IXL to all of you-we have done more than 5,000 problems as a class already. Stickers go out tomorrow to anyone who has logged on and practiced this last week.

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 5, Week 2 (Carl the Complainer)

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 community members?
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.)
Prefixes:  un-, re-, pre-, dis-	Prefixes: disagree   disappear   discolor   preheat   preschool   regroup   rerun   rewind   unlock   unpack   unplug   unsafe
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
become   enough   good-bye   nothing   people   stories   together	annoy   complain   mumbles   P.M.   signature   shrugs
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.)
concern   contribute   fragile   litter   pellets   persuade   pollute   release	Cursive Letters o, w, b, v Letter Spacing