March 16-20

Welcome to a new week!  Here is what we will be working on in English this week:
  • Response to Literature: Maps - pulling information from text, then using that information to write a paragraph
  • Writing assessment: What is your favorite animal?  Why?
  • Phonics: action verbs
  • Phonics: linking verbs
  • Phonics: subject/verb agreement
  • Phonics: helping verbs
  • Math: coin recognition - pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters (this is not part of our core, but working with coins is, and we have found from past experience that most students still cannot recognize the coins and their values at this point in second grade - so we need to cover it so they can successfully work with coins.  It would help tremendously if you could also go over pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters at home!)
  • Daily 5/Power Hour: continued practice in reading, spelling, and comprehension
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March 9-13

Welcome to a new week!  Friday is a short day; school will be dismissed at 12:00.  Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:
  • continue working on categorical narrative about places to eat in Logan - we still need to add details and write sentences
  • begin  response to literature activity on maps
  • phonics: suffixes
  • phonics: three sound of /ed/
  • phonics: verbs - action, linking, subject verb agreement, present, past, future, irregular
  • phonics assessment for chapter 1
  • Daily 5/Power Hour: continue practice in reading, spelling, and comprehension
  • continued practice with three-digit subtraction with/without regrouping
Here are some helpful sites to get worksheets to help your child with multi-digit addition and subtraction: 
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March 2 - 6

CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE HOMEWORK IN ENGLISH
Welcome to March!  Here is what we will be working on this week in English class:
  • finish-up response to literature: Thurgood Marshall - finish up sentences
  • begin categorical narrative: places to eat in Logan - circle map, flow map, opening/closing sentences
  • phonics: nouns - singular/plural, common/proper, possessive, personal, indefinite, collective, irregular, and reflexive
  • phonics: suffixes
  • Daily 5/Power Hour: continued practice with reading, spelling, and comprehension of text
  • continue practice with double- and triple-digit subtraction with regrouping
  • March 5th - 7 Habits assembly @ 1:45
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February 23 - 27

It seems like winter has finally arrived this morning!  Here is what we will be working on in English this week:
  • response to literature: Thurgood Marshall (we will be working on pulling information from text and using that information to write an informative essay)
  • phonics: guardian consonants - when a vowel is followed by a guardian consonant and nothing else, the vowel sound is short.
  • phonics: guardian consonants - when a vowel is followed by two guardian consonants, the vowel sound is short.
  • phonics: nouns (words that mean person, place, or thing)
  • phonics: spelling with -ck
  • phonics: common words (my, than, first, water, been, call, who, oil, now, find
  • continued practice with double- and triple-digit addition and subtraction with/without regrouping
  • daily 5/power hour: continued practice to become better readers, spellers, and comprehenders
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February 17 - 20

Happy President's Day!  Thank you for your attendance at parent teacher conferences.  We had 92% attendance, and that makes us happy!  Here is what we will be working on in English class this week:
  • finishing up our categorical narrative about things to do in Logan - we still need to add details and write
  • using information from a flow map to write a sentence
  • phonics - digraphs
  • phonics - common word list #8: two, more, write, go, see, number, no, way, could, people
  • phonics - contractions
  • phonics - short and long vowel sounds
  • power hour/daily 5: continuing to become better readers, spellers, and comprehenders
  • practice two- and three-digit subtraction with regrouping
  • contraction surgery
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Conference Schedule

The scheduler is closed.  There were still several unscheduled conferences, so I plugged them in where there were spaces.  If you can't come to the conference I scheduled, please call or e-mail and we will try to figure something out.


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February 9 - 13

We will be celebrating Valentine's Day on Thursday the 12th since we are not in school on the 14th.  We will exchange Valentines on that day at 10:30.

We will have conferences on Wednesday and Thursday.  If you haven't already, please sign up for a conference as soon as possible (instructions are in the last post).  We have a full day of school on Wednesday, but we will have substitutes in the afternoon to allow us time for conferences.  We will also have substitutes on Thursday (a half-day of school).  Please, please, please talk with your child about how they should behave when we have a substitute, and what your expectations are for their behavior.  We have been having huge problems with substitute behavior, particularly on the Spanish side.  There is no school on Friday.

Here is what we will be working on in English this week:
  • Categorical narrative (writing that is sequenced by events, rather than time): our topic is 'things to do in Logan.'
  • phonics: special vowel combinations (didn't get to this last week - oops!)
  • phonics: compound words (again, didn't get to it - oops!)
  • phonics: voiced and unvoiced /th/
  • phonics: digraphs
  • subtraction with regrouping - more on top? or more on the floor?
  • power hour/daily 5: continued practice to become better readers, comprehenders, and spellers
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