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. A new book will be given out this week. Make sure your child reads every day. Notes will be started in the back of the Reading NB. The children should complete the notes by writing the settings, characters, and a summary of important details.
TESTS:
Vocabulary Test- Friday, 4/23 (study words in the vocabulary notebook for this week).
VOCABULARY WORDS:
- scarce- (adj) not plentiful; hard to get
- thrill- (v) to feel or cause emotional excitement
- undertow- (n) a current of water moving underneath the surface water in a different direction.
- value- (n) the estimated worth of something; to think highly of
- wander- (v) to roam aimlessly; stray
READING VOCABULARY WORDS FROM SEED TO PLANT:
beautiful, nutrition, protects, ripens, streams
High Frequency Words: the students only need to know how to read these words (they do not need to know how to define them): different, air, food, light, water
SPELLING WORDS: No spelling words for this week
LANGUAGE ARTS- 2nd Semester Work
This week we will be working on writing descriptive paragraphs, pronouns, and describing words.
Nouns- names a person, place, thing, or animal (pgs. 94-122) 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.
Possessive Noun- is a noun that shows ownership. It tells what someone or something owns or has. When a possessive noun names one person or thing, add an apostrophe (‘) and s to show ownership.
Pronoun-(pgs. 124-126) takes the place of a noun. I, you, he, she, it, and they are pronouns.
Describing Words-(pgs. 127-135) tell about nouns. Describing words tell about color, size, shape, tastes, looks, smells, feels, sounds, and tells how many
HOMEWORK: See purple assignment book for page numbers
MONDAY: Practice Book pgs. 95, 96
TUESDAY: none
WEDNESDAY: Language Arts- pg.137 Sentences 1-10 on looseleaf. Write the correct word in each sentence. Write all sentences out.
THURSDAY: Study for the 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:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgcvdkk2_1794fhqqnhc
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