Dear Families,
We have had another wonderful week of 2nd grade! I hope your child is happy and learning more than I think! 🙂 Make sure to check your child’s backpack each night as we are sending papers home most nights, with Thursday being the main day for papers from the office. Don’t forget our annual Open House will be on Tuesday, September 12, from 6:00 – 7:30! Please attend, if possible to see your child’s room again now that they have lived there for a couple of weeks!
We start spelling words this week. Have fun working with the words at home. Let me know if you need additional support ideas to use at home. There is a website that provides some practice for free and the ability to type in your personal spelling list for subscription. Kids love the activities and it is a great site.
http://www.spellingcity.com
Enjoy your weekend with your sweet kids!
Mrs. P. 🙂
SPECIALS:
- A Day: Music
- B Day: PE
- C Day: Art
MON.~Art
TUES.~Music
WEDS.~PE
THURS.~Art/Media w/Mrs. Bradbury@12:10
FRI.~Music/Second Step w/Mrs. Hay, counselor@11:00
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- 9/12/17 ~ Open House (6-7:30p.m.)
- 9/15/17 ~ Picture Day
- 10/20/17~Early Release @1:00
- 10/22/17~Homecoming Parade @1:30
- 10/25/17 ~ Picture Retakes
- 10/26 & 10/27/17 ~ Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences
- 10/31/17~Halloween Parade/Party (1:30-2:45)
LANGUAGE ARTS (CKLA):
- Learning procedures/routines
- Introduction & Review
- Skills ~ Basic Code Spellings/vowels/consonants/blends
- Listening & Learning ~ Fairy Tales & Tall Tales
SPELLING WORDS:
bandit
shelf
sprang
munch
picnic
think
wish
drift
box
Tricky Word: she
READ ALOUDS: Listening and Learning
Early Asian Civilizations (Non-Fiction & Fiction)
- The Indus River Valley
- Hindus & Hinduism
- “The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal”
- “The Blind Men and the Elephant”
WE ARE REVIEWING FOR OUR TEST ON FAIRY TALES AND TALL TALES. WE WILL THEN START DOMAIN 2 EARLY ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS.
MATH:
- Learning procedures/routines
- Chapter 1 ~ Numbers to 1,000 (Counting, Place Value, Comparing Numbers, and Order & Pattern)
- Basic facts to 20
SCIENCE:
- Learning procedures/routines
- Scientific Method
SOCIAL STUDIES:
- Learning procedures/routines
- Map Skills/7 continents, oceans, cardinal directions
Review of Vowel Spellings
- ‘o’ > /o/ (hop)
- ‘e’ > /e/ (pet)
- ‘a’ > /a/ (hat)
- ‘i’ > /i/ (it)
- ‘u’ > /u/ (but)
Review of Consonant Spellings
- ‘t’ > /t/ (top), ‘tt’ > /t/ (sitting), and ‘ed’ > /t/ (asked)
- ‘d’ > /d/ (dot), ‘dd’ > /d/ (add), and ‘ed’ > /d/ (filled)
- ‘p’ > /p/ (pot) and ‘pp’ > /p/ (napping)
- ‘b’ > /b/ (bat) and ‘bb’ > /b/ (rubbing)
- ‘c’ > /k/ (cat), ‘k’ > /k/ (kid), ‘cc’ > /k/ (hiccup), and ‘ck’ > /k/ (black)
- ‘g’ > /g/ (gift) and ‘gg’ > /g/ (egg)
- ‘ch’ > /ch/ (chin) and ‘tch’ >/ch/ (itch)
- ‘j’ > /g/ (jump), ‘g’ > /g/ (gem), and ‘ge’ >/ ge/ (fringe)
- ‘f’ > /f/ (fit) and ‘ff’ > /f/ (stuff)
- ‘v’ > /v/ (vet) and ‘ve’ > /v/ (twelve)
- ‘s’>/s/(sun),‘ss’>/s/(dress),‘c’>/s/(cent),‘se’>/s/(rinse),and ‘ce’ > /s/ (prince)
- ‘z’ > /z/ (zip), ‘zz’ > /z/ (buzz), and ‘s’ > /z/ (dogs)
- ‘th’ > /th/ (thin) as a spelling for (unvoiced) /th/
- ‘th’ > /th/ (them) as a spelling for (voiced) /th/
- ‘m’ > /m/ (mad) and ‘mm’ > /m/ (swimming)
- ‘n’ > /n/ (nut), ‘nn’ > /n/ (running), and ‘kn’ > /n/ (knock)
- ‘ng’ > /ng/ (sing) and ‘n’ > /ng/ (pink)
- ‘sh’ > /sh/ (shop)
- ‘h’ > /h/ (hot)
- ‘w’ > /w/ (wet) and ‘wh’ > /w/ (when)
- ‘l’ > /l/ (lip) and ‘ll’ > /l/ (bell)
- ‘r’ > /r/ (red), ‘rr’ > /r/ (ferret), and ‘wr’ > /r/ (wrist)
- ‘y’ > /y/ (yes)
- ‘x’ > /x/ (tax) as a spelling for the sound combination /x/ (/k/ + /s/)
- ‘qu’> /qu/ (quit) as a spelling for the sound combination /qu/ (/k/ + /w/)
Students will:
- Demonstrate familiarity with particular fairy tales
Describe the characters, plot, and setting of particular fairy tales - Identify common characteristics of fairy tales such as “once upon a time” beginnings, royal characters, magical characters or events, and happy endings
- Identify the fairy tale elements of particular fairy tales
- Identify fairy tales as a type of fiction
- Identify tall tales as a type of fiction
- Demonstrate familiarity with particular tall tales
- Identify the characters, plot, and setting of particular tall tales
- Identify exaggeration and larger-than-life characters as characteristics of tall tales
- Identify the exaggerations in particular tall tales