February 1-5

Don't forget to sign up for a conference time (instructions are in the last post).
Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:

• phonics: decoding skill #2
• phonics: the schwa sound
• phonics: the last job of y (when y is at the end of a word it makes either a long e sound or a long i sound)
• phonics: review and assessment (sounds of y, decoding skills #1 & #2, and schwa)
• writing: begin learning how to write a personal experience narrative
• comprehension: begin reading I Wanna Iguana (objective - ask and answer questions, recount/describe key ideas and details from a text, understand characters, setting, and plot, and describe how characters respond to major events and challenges)

Conferences and other miscellaneous information!

Conferences are coming up on February 10th & 11th.  The scheduler will be open from January 30th to February 8th.  Please schedule as soon as possible to get an appointment that works for you.

To schedule, go to bridgerelementary.weebly.com and select the Online Scheduler link at the bottom of the page.  On the scheduler page: 

1. Choose 'Bridger' from the drop down list and click "go."
2. Enter the school password (bears).
3. Enter your student's ID (it is their lunch number).
4. Verify your student's birth date.
5. A list of teachers will be displayed - check the box next to the name of each teacher you would like to meet with.  Ms. Navarro and I will be conducting conferences together, so you only need to schedule one conference to meet with both of us.
6. Select the conference time that works best for your schedule.  Once you have finished, confirm your appointment details and print your schedule.
7. WRITE DOWN YOUR CONFIRMATION NUMBER - YOU WILL NEED IT IF YOU NEED TO CANCEL YOUR APPOINTMENT.      

Here is a flyer from the district that you may be interested in: 

We are also on Instagram now!!  Our username is 2ndgradedli.  Message me if you would like to follow us.  Our account is private, so I must approve all followers.  I won't accept you if I don't recognize who you are.  If I don't approve you, just e-mail me and let me know that it's you.

January 25-28

We are trading classes on Monday.  You don't need to do anything.  This just means that the blue class will now have Spanish in the morning, English in the afternoon, and the red class with have English in the morning, and Spanish in the afternoon.
We will be going on a field trip to the Ellen Eccles Theater on Thursday, January 28th to see the Repertory Dance Theatre.  We will be gone from 9 AM to 11:30 AM.
There is no school on Friday, January 29th.  Teachers have training on that day. Here is what we will be working on this week in English:

• phonics - the many jobs of Y
• phonics - decoding skill #1 (if there is just one guardian consonant following a vowel in a multi-syllabic word, the consonant will move on to be with the vowel in the next syllable - "one must run")
• writing - finish up the final write of the writing assessment we started last week
• reading - continue reading Money Matters! (Objective - identify text features and their purposes, ask and answer questions to understand the text, identify main topics, and describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text)

AR Goals

Eight students have made their AR goal!!  

Keep working hard - it would be great if our whole class could go bowling.  The deadline for 2nd trimester AR goals is February 26th.  

District Flyers

District flyers that you may be interested in:

December 18-22

Happy Martin Luther King day!  Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:

• phonics: adding a suffix to phonetic skill #5 words - to add a suffix to a word that has adjacent vowels, just add the suffix
• phonics: review spelling with /k/, digraph blends, and adding suffixes to phonetic skill #5 words - then test
• phonics: words with /gh/
• phonics: the many jobs of Y
• writing: final write of the personal narrative we started last week
• writing: begin new narrative - this one will be an assessment (meaning they will need to do it on their own - without my help).  Prompt is "write a short narrative about a character who makes a decision about money."
• STAR (reading & reading comprehension) testing this week
• reading: continue reading Money Matters! - (objective: identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text, ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, use various text features to locate key facts or information in the text efficiently, explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text, describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in the text)

District Flyers

Here are some flyers from the district that you may be interested in:

January 11-15

I'm sorry I didn't get the blog done for last week.  Here is what we will be working on this week in English class:

• phonics - review final spelling of /k/ (short vowels words end with -ck, long vowel words end with -ke, and words with vowel digraphs end with -k)
• phonics - digraph blends (a digraph followed or preceded by a consonant: thr, nch, shr, etc.)
• phonics - sentence structure: complete, simple, compound, declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative 
• phonics - adding a suffix to a phonetic skill 5 word (a word that has a vowel digraph)
• writing - begin working on a narrative paragraph (prompt: children will write a short narrative about a character who makes a decision about what to eat for an after-school snack)
• reading - begin reading Money Matters! (objective 1: identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author want to answer, explain, or describe.  Objective 2: ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.)