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. If your child is absent from school, he/she is still responsible to complete the HW and get any notes that may have been given. See blog for HW and tests for the week.
6. The children will be given a new book to read in the next week or two. 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.
TESTS:
Spelling Test- Friday, 2/26
Vocabulary Test- Friday 2/19 (words in Vocabulary NB)
VOCABULARY WORDS: For this week-Test Friday 2/19.
- florist- (n) one who grows or sells flowers
- glimpse- (n) a brief, quick look
- hazardous-(adj) risky; dangerous
- imitate-(n) to copy, resemble, or mimic; to reproduce in color, shape, or form
- judge- (n) a public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law; (v) to determine the winner of a contest or settle a controversy or dispute.
READING VOCABULARY WORDS FROM LEMONADE FOR SALE: announced, arrived, glum, members, rebuild
High Frequency Words: the students only need to know how to read these words (they do not need to know how to define them): between, enough, fill, idea, number
SPELLING WORDS: Words with the /ar/ sound as in car
bar, jar, star, farm, harm, charm, dark, remark, sparkle, alarm, fourteen, source, between, enough, idea Test on Friday, 2/26.
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.
Abbreviations- is a short way to write a word. Most abbreviations end with period and begin with a capital letter.
eg. March- Mar.; February- Feb.; Mister- Mr.
HOMEWORK: See purple assignment book for page numbers
MONDAY: No school
TUESDAY: Reading Practice Book pgs. 77,78
WEDNESDAY: Language Handbook- p. 117 on looseleaf. Write each sentence correctly.
THURSDAY: Study for your Vocabulary Test. Language Handbook p. 120 1-12 in Language Arts Notebook
FRIDAY: Read for at least 15 minutes every day or parents read to your children!!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!
Click the links below to reviews this week's Reading and ELA Lesson Plans:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgcvdkk2_129c7h6xbc6
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgcvdkk2_121cc3m4cn
