Grade 2 Class Updates

Week of November 13

This week the class is working on a lesson centered around the story "Pepita and the Bully". This tale is a wonderful moral tale about how to stand up to deal with bullies. I am excited to read it with the kids. While reading we will practice the reading skill of identifying the theme (or moral) of a story along with reviewing central idea. also this week will be a lesson on constructing complete sentences and identifying sentence fragments and run on sentences. Monday we practiced our new vocabulary and phonics skills. You can find review materials below.

Week of November 6

My apologies parents. I got busy duringn Halloween and had to put updates here further down the to-do list. We spent the last month finishing up our pen pal letters and getting started with a new unit. Our new unit is a focus on what it takes to work with others. We will explore vocabulary and ideas like compromise, cooperation, and disagreements. This week students are reading a nonfiction selection out of your book called "Working with Others". We are also continuing our learning about nouns with a lesson on possessive nouns. This month students will learn and practice the persuasive writing model. this week we will begin learning this model and practicing for our writing assignment at the end of the month. Below are the resources for this month, Please review and practice with your child.

Week of October 2

This week we are getting back to a lesson in into Reading after spending last week working on our first extension and writign project. The kids were writing paragraphs about their families and making a coat of arms to represent their family. Most of the kids got done, but don't be surprised if your child has to bring the work home this week to finish up.

This week we are reading The Great Fuzz Frenzy and completing lessons around it. This story is about a colony of prarie dogs that find a tennis ball. They then feud over who gets the green fuzz on the ball. A hillarious frenzy ensues. On Monday we learned our new vocabulary and did some seplling practices. See the resoruces below to review. On Wednesday we will do a grammar lesson on nouns. Thursday we wil read and practice the reading skills of connecting the visuals of a book to its text. Finally on Friday we will have a writing lesson about the parts of a letter. This month the kids will be writing letters to children in Africa!

Week of September 18

Sorry for getting this update on here late. Below are the vocabulary and grammar resources for this week. We are reading Picture Day Perfection this week as a class and working our way through that lesson. On Monday we began working with our vocabulary and spelling focus. We'll continue to practice subjects, predicates, and sentences for grammar this week. Our reading skill focus will be on character traits as we read our funny focus text. The end of the week will be working on our writing project for this month: A paragraph or two about our families and a coat of arms to go with it.

Week of September 11

This week we are moving into our second lesson of our first unit this year. Students will be reading a cute little story called Spoon with a theme of how each of us is unique in our own way. We will begin the week with vocabulary practice and writing practice. We'll practice grammar on Wednesday (don't forget library books.) On Thursday we will read and practice the reading skill of identifying author's purpose. Finally on Friday we will begin our first extension project: a family Coar of Arms. Use the vocabulary slideshow and weekly handout below to practice and review this week.

This week we are moving into our second lesson of our first unit this year. Students will be reading a cute little story called Spoon with a theme of how each of us is unique in our own way. We will begin the week with vocabulary practice and writing practice. We'll practice grammar on Wednesday (don't forget library books.) On Thursday we will read and practice the reading skill of identifying author's purpose. Finally on Friday we will begin our first extension project: a family Coar of Arms. Use the vocabulary slideshow and weekly handout below to practice and review this week.

Week of September 4

Here we are in week 2 of the new school year. This week we will be getting into our Into Reading curriculum. We will begin the week with introducing new vocabulary for our upcoming reading selection Clark the Shark. We'll review parts of a sentence on Wednesday, and read the story on Thursday. Our reading focus will be on theme and character traits which we will practice in class. We will then continue to practice main idea and details and how they connect to paragraph construction on Friday. Use the resources below to practice and review this week.

Week of August 28

Hello, and welcome to the new school year. This page is your home for weekly updates about what will be going on in my class. I will try to keep this page updated, but if I fall behind, do not be shy to email me for updates.

This week is all about getting to know each other and some of the routine lessons and activities from my class.