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 were given a new book to read titled Ox-Cart Man. Notes were 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- Tues. 3/2 Words from Lemonade for Sale
Vocabulary Test- Friday 3/5 same words as last week (words in Vocabulary NB)
Language Arts Test-Friday, 3/5 study pgs.94-120 in Language Handbook
VOCABULARY WORDS: For this week-Test Friday 3/5
- kidnap- (v) to seize or hold a person by force, sometimes to get a ransom.
- legend- (n) a story or group of stories handed down for generations and believed to have some type of historical basis
- mauve- (adj.) any of several shades of pale or light purple
- navy- 1. (n) a nation’s entire sea force; 2. (adj) a very dark, purplish blue color (navy blue).
- pale-(adj) a whitish or colorless complexion
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 Tues.3/2.
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. 94-120) 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.
Abbreviation- 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: Reading- Practice Book- pg. 85 Study for Spelling Test.
TUESDAY: Reading- Phonics Book pgs. 85, 86, 87
WEDNESDAY: Language Arts Handbook pg. 121 in Lang. Arts NB. Write all sentences out and follow the directions. If you finished it in class, then study for the Lang. Arts Test.
THURSDAY: Study for your Vocabulary Test and Language Arts 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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