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- Thursday, 2/11
Vocabulary Test- Friday 2/12 (words in Vocabulary NB)
Book Test on Anansi the Spider- Thursday, 2/11
VOCABULARY WORDS: For this week-Test Friday 2/12.
- alarm- (n) warning of danger (v) to cause alarm due to a sense of danger
- bough- (n) a usually large or main branch of a tree
- century-(n) a period of a hundred years
- decade-(n) a period of a ten years
- evacuate- (v) to make empty; to remove troops or people from a place of danger.
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 Thursday, 2/11.
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: Spelling- write each spelling word 5x each in the Reading NB
TUESDAY: Write a sentence for words 1-8 on looseleaf. Remember to put you heading on the looseleaf.
WEDNESDAY: Write a sentence for words 9-15 in the Reading NB. Study for the Spelling Test and Book Test. Remember your book and notes.
THURSDAY: Language Arts- Write a paragraph (6 sentences) titled Valentine's Day. Be creative. Due on looseleaf and remember to put your heading on the LL. Study for your Vocabulary Test.
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:
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