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 will be given a new book to read this 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.
7. Please check the blog for the Midterm Review Sheet for the Reading Midterm Exam. You can find the material that your child should review for both exams. The schedule of exams is also on the school blog.
TESTS:
Reading Midterm Exam- Thursday, 1/21
Spelling Test Friday, 1/29
VOCABULARY WORDS: No new words this week
READING VOCABULARY WORDS FROM All words from Sept. – Jan. (The Mixed-Up Chameleon- Helping Out). See Reading NB for definitions or Reading Practice Book.1-58.
SPELLING WORDS: Abbreviations (Test- Friday, 1/29)
Mr., Mrs., Dr., Jan., Aug., Dec., Tues., Wed., Sun., St., rehearse, search, before, blue, room
LANGUAGE ARTS- Second Semester Work
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: no school
TUESDAY: Review for Science Midterm Exam
WEDNESDAY: Review for Reading Midterm Exam
THURSDAY: Language Handbook p. 104 1-10 in Language Arts NB (write each name correctly.
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_100ctwm9kcz
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgcvdkk2_101gfb5pff8
