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 was given out last week (The Runaway Bunny). 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. The Book Test will be on Thursday, May 6.
TESTS:
Vocabulary Test- Friday, 5/7 (study words in the vocabulary notebook for this week).
Spelling Test- Thursday, 5/6 on the words from The Secret Life of Trees
Book Test- on The Runaway Bunny will be Thursday, 5/6
Language Arts Test- Thursday, 5/13 Study pgs 94-144 in Language Handbook or study the work covered under Language Arts below.
VOCABULARY WORDS:
1. deceive- (v) to be dishonest and misleading
2. epidemic- (n) something that spreads or develops rapidly like an epidemic disease.
3. fascinate- (v) to seize or hold the attention of; to attract greatly
4. greedy-(adj) trying to take more than one needs or more than one’s share
5. hospitable-(adj) friendly and generous in entertaining guests
READING VOCABULARY WORDS THE SECRET LIFE OF TREES:
discover, energy, forecast, shed, source
High Frequency Words: the students only need to know how to read these words (they do not need to know how to define them): paper, tall, answer, page, bark
SPELLING WORDS: from the Secret Life of Trees. Words with the /oo/ sound.
smooth, roots, food, scooter, boot, broom, moon, cartoon, roof, spoon, springtime, ostrich, answer, paper, page
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. 94-123) 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. 127-138) tell about nouns. Describing words tell about color, size, shape, tastes, looks, smells, feels, sounds, and tells how many, describing words that compare
Verbs- (pgs.139-144)
An action verb tells what someone or something does.
A verb can tell about an action that is happening now.
Eg. The sun shines in the sky. (shines is the action verb that tells what is happening right now in the present.
Add the letter s to most verbs when the naming part of the sentence tells about one thing or one person.
eg. The baby walks. (The naming part of the sentence tells about one person (the baby), so the verb ends with and s.
Do not add an s to the verb when the naming part of the sentence tells about I, you, or more than one person or thing.
eg. I play tag. (play does not end with s ,even though the naming part is about one person.
You sing well. (sing does not end with s, because of the word you)
The children write their letters. (write does not end with s, because the naming part of the sentence tells about more than one thing)
HOMEWORK: See purple assignment book for page numbers
MONDAY: Spelling- write each spelling word 5x each in the Reading NB
TUESDAY: none
WEDNESDAY: Spelling- write a sentence for any 10 of the spelling words on looseleaf. Remember to put your heading for the looseleaf. Study for the Spelling Test and Book Test tomorrow. Bring your book and notes.
THURSDAY: Study for the Vocabulary Test
FRIDAY: Read for at least 15 minutes every day or parents read to your children!!! Study for the Language Arts Test on Thursday.
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_187fbrhv8gg
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