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 (The 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. The book test will be Thurs. 3/18.
7. Please sign all tests handed out by Mr. Woods on Tuesday and return by Thursday, 3/11. This tests need to be kept on file in your child’s folder.
TESTS:
Spelling Test- Friday, 3/19
Vocabulary Test- Friday 3/12 review of words from (words in Vocabulary NB)
Book Test- Thurs. 3/18
VOCABULARY WORDS: Review words from 1/25-2/22 (see vocabulary notebook). There are five weeks of words to study.
READING VOCABULARY WORDS FROM JOHNNY APPLESEED:
frontier, nearby, orchards, survive, tame, wild
High Frequency Words: the students only need to know how to read these words (they do not need to know how to define them): bag, call, country, rain, sleep
SPELLING WORDS: Words with the /ir/ sound as in words with the eer and ear (deer, year)
pioneers, cheers, clearing, hear, nearby, year, beard, reindeer, steer, peer, remark, alarm, sleep, country, rain Test on Tues.3/19.
LANGUAGE ARTS- Third Quarter 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.
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- takes the place of a noun. I, you, he, she, it, and they are pronouns.
HOMEWORK: See purple assignment book for page numbers
MONDAY: Reading- Practice Book- pgs.
TUESDAY: Writing Assignment: It is believed that leprechauns and their pots of gold can be found at the end of the rainbow. So write a paragraph starting with the sentence: If I found a pot of gold, I would…… Please write this on the paper that was given out in class and color the paper.
*Sign tests handed out by Mr. Woods
WEDNESDAY: Language Arts Handbook pg. 124 (1-10) write on looseleaf
*Sign tests handed out by Mr. Woods
THURSDAY: Study for your Vocabulary Test tomorrow
FRIDAY: Read for at least 15 minutes every day or parents read to your children!!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!
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