REMINDERS:
1. Please remember to cover all soft-covered books. Some children still have none of their Reading or Language Arts books covered.
2. Remember to read the purple assignment book and check the HW folder each night to know your child's homework for each day.
3. Your child needs to remember to bring all of their school supplies every day. Many children are coming to class with no pencils or looseleaf.
4. Please check the school blog every day for HW updates and information. It is impossible for the children to copy down everything so please make it a priority to check the blog. Please remember to click under Mrs.Larios, the week and 2nd Grade.
5. Remember that Homework counts as a grade and many children are not completing it. Check your child’s Reading and Language Arts NB every day to see if I have written you a note.
6. The children were given Anansi the Spider read last week. Notes will be started in the back of the Reading NB. The children should finish the notes by writing the settings of the story, characters, and plot. They will be allowed to use their notes on the test so it is very important that they make notes. They will have a test on the book on Thurs. Feb. 11.
TESTS:
Spelling Test- Friday, 2/12
Vocabulary Test- Friday 2/5 (words in Vocabulary NB)
VOCABULARY WORDS: For this week-Test Friday 2/5.
- after- behind; later
- blade- the cutting part of a tool, knife
- congratulate- to wish joy on another’s good fortune
- discomfort- the lack of comfort; uneasiness; pain
- escalator- a moving stairway on an endless belt
READING VOCABULARY WORDS FROM HEDGEHOG BAKES a CAKE: batter, buttery, perfect, recipe, smeared, yellow cake
High Frequency Words: the students only need to know how to read these words (they do not need to know how to define them): bit, cake, open, smell, thank
SPELLING WORDS: Words with the our that sounds like /or/ as in pour
four, your, poured, course, court, fourteen, mourn, source, forth, resource, Dr., St., smell, thank, open Test on Friday 2/12.
LANGUAGE ARTS- Second Semester Work
This week we will be working on writing descriptive paragraphs and proper nouns.
Nouns- names a person, place, thing, or animal (pgs. 94-102 Language Handbook).
Singular noun: names one person, place, or thing.
Plural noun: names more than one person, place, or thing.
Add –s or –es to make most nouns plural. For nouns that end in a consonant and y, change y to I and add –es. Add –es to nouns that end in s, ss, x, ch, or sh.
eg. boy-boys, girl-girls, box-boxes, glass-glasses, lunch-lunches, dish-dishes, bus-buses, party-parties, candy-candies, holiday-holidays
Irregular plural noun- some nouns change their spelling to name more than one.
eg. woman-women, foot-feet, goose-geese, child-children, tooth-teeth, mouse-mice, man-men, leaf-leaves
Proper Nouns- Names of people, animals, places, days of the week, months of the year, holidays, names of streets, towns, cities, states, countries, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Proper nouns begin with capital letters.
eg. Mr. Woods, Dr. Sanchez, Rex, Orlando, Florida, America, Tuesday, January, Christmas, Arden Street, New York, Bronx, Hudson River, Lake George, Atlantic Ocean.
HOMEWORK: See purple assignment book for page numbers
MONDAY: Phonics bk. pgs. 75,76
TUESDAY: Write a paragraph describing your favorite food (six sentences). Use the graphic organizer in your Lang. Arts NB to plan your paragraph before writing it. Do this on looseleaf.
WEDNESDAY: Language Arts Handbook p. 111 1-10 on looseleaf (write each over correctly). Remember to write your heading and pg. number on your looseleaf.
THURSDAY: Study for your Vocabulary Test and read your book.
FRIDAY: Read for at least 15 minutes every day or parents read to your children!!! Make notes for Anansi the Spider.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!
Click the links below to reviews this week's Reading and ELA Lesson Plans:
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