REMINDERS:
1. Remember to read the purple assignment book and check the HW folder each night to know your child's homework for each day.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The second grade is reading Ira Sleeps Over. Make sure your child reads every day. Notes were 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. The Book Test will be Thurs. 6/3.
5. The outline for studying for Final Exams can be found below. There will be no written homework given this week in order to study for Final Exams.
TESTS:
Vocabulary Test- Weds., June 2 on all the words from the 4th Quarter (six weeks). See Vocabulary NB from the weeks 4/12, 4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17. There are 90 words to study for the Cumulative Vocabulary Test on 6/2.
Book Test- Thursday, 6/3 (Ira Sleeps Over)
Spelling Test- Thursday, 6/3 (words from Pumpkin Fiesta)
VOCABULARY WORDS: review 4th quarter words. See Vocabulary NBs.
READING VOCABULARY WORDS Pumpkin Fiesta:
boasted, crept, crown, village, vines
High Frequency Words: the students only need to know how to read these words (they do not need to know how to define them): drink, hat, hid, hill, road
SPELLING WORDS: from Pumpkin Fiesta: Inflections- -s, -es, -ies
beauties, babies, cities, duties, bodies, skies, copies, cries, pennies, hobbies, sign, unknown, drink, hill, road
REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAMS:
REVIEW FOR READING EXAM: 2ND GRADE
1. Vocabulary Words: know the meaning of the vocabulary words from the following stories:
The definition of each word can be found in your child's Reading Notebook listed under the name of each story. If your child was absent for any of the words, you can check the Reading Text Book for the words and the definitions are in the glossary. Review pages 42- 124 in the Reading Practice Book.
2. Spelling: The children should know the Spelling Words for the stories above. The spelling words can be found in the notebook and in the Reading Practice Book.
Other skills that should be reviewed and are reviewed in the Reading Notebook are:
A. Synonyms- words that mean nearly the same eg. big, large
B. Antonyms- words that are opposites eg. hot, cold
C. Homophones- words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings eg. I, eye
D. Syllabication- the number of vowel sounds that you hear in a word eg. rainbow has 2 syllables because the long a sound is heard in the first syllable and the long o sound is heard in the second syllable.
E. Compound Words- two complete words that are put together to make a new word eg. rain + bow = rainbow .
F. Contractions- two words are combined by using an apostrophe to make a word shorter eg. I will – I’ll, I am- I’m.
G. Alphabetical Order- putting words in order according to their order in the alphabet starting with the first letter.
REVIEW FOR LANGUAGE ARTS EXAM
1. SENTENCES - review pp. 82-93 in the Language Handbook
A. Statements
B. Questions
C. Commands
D. Exclamations
E. Naming Parts of Sentences
F. Telling Parts of Sentences
2. NOUNS – review pp. 94-117
3. ABBREVIATIONS- pp. 118-120
4. PRONOUNS- pp. 124-126
5. DESCRIBING WORDS- pp. 127-138
6. VERBS- pp. 139-165
7. SPELLING- The children should know the Spelling Words for the stories above. The spelling words can be found in the notebook and in the Reading Practice Book.
HOMEWORK: See purple assignment book for page numbers
MONDAY: NO SCHOOL- MEMORIAL DAY
TUESDAY: study for Vocabulary Exam tomorrow (words in Vocabulary NB)
WEDNESDAY: study for Book Test and Spelling Test (Pumpkin Fiesta)
THURSDAY: review the material on the Reading and Language Arts outline above for Final Exams which start next week‼‼
FRIDAY: NO SCHOOL
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
Click the links below to reviews this week's Reading and ELA Lesson Plans:
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