What we will do this week -- Sept. 29-Oct. 3

This week we will work on the following skills:

Reading:  Asking and answering questions

Spelling:  Open-syllable words

Math:  Two-dimensional shapes

Language:  Produce, expand and rearrange simple and compound sentences

Spelling Words:  cry, go, she, fly, we, so, baby, robot, tidy

High Frequency Words:  because, done, don't, know, once, together

Homework:

Every night:  Study spelling words and read "The Snake Kite"

Monday:  Math, reading

Tuesday:  Math, get test papers signed and return on Wednesday

Wednesday:  Reading, language

Thursday:  Language, write spelling words four times each

***Be sure and study math facts.  We will have a timed test each week.

Homework for September 22-26

Every night:  Study spelling words, read "The Flat Tire"

Monday:  Math

Tuesday:  Reading, get tests papers signed and return on Wednesday

Wednesday:  Reading, language

Thursday:   Language, write spelling words four times each

***Be sure and study your math facts every night.  We have a timed test each week.  These will  be averaged for one grade for the nine weeks.

What we will be learning -- September 22-26

Reading:  Predicting
Spelling:  r-controlled /ar/ syllable patterns
Math:  Two-step word problems, CGI problems
Language:  Irregular plural nouns

Spelling Words:  blare, hair, bear, flare, pair, wear, repair, cherry, barely

High Frequency Words:  big, important, left, need, off, together, took

Interactive Notebooks

I am excited!! This week we began using interactive notebooks.  I have been reading about them and decided to give them a try.  Students will glue pages related to our skill and write about them. Students were very engaged during the lesson.  I look forward to working in them again next week!

The class really seemed to enjoy working on these.  The notebooks will be a resource for the students when they have questions about these skills.  This lesson was on story structure.  We reviewed that a story has a beginning, middle and end that makes up the plot of the story.  I got this wonderful resource from Reading Notebook for 2nd Grade by Nicole Shelby.  We will be using this resource a lot for our notebooks!

Technical Difficulties

Since I'm still new to blogging it looks like I'm having a few difficulties getting the homework information to post on the Homework tab. This week it looks like it will be on the Home page!  Oh well, I'll keep working on it.

Homework: Sept. 8-12

Every night:  Study spelling words, read "Who Snored?"

Monday:  Spelling word sort (you may have your child write the words in the boxes if you don't have scissors and glue)

Tuesday:  Math, get test papers signed and return on Wednesday

Wednesday:  Math, reading

Thursday:  Math, language

Spelling words:  score, fort, horn, shore, short, thorn, before, forest, hornet

High Frequency Words:  began, don't, here, never, next, second, went

What we will be learning--Sept. 8-12

This week we will be working on the following skills:

Reading: Non-fiction text features (captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menu icons),  Determining the meaning of words and phrases in a text

Spelling:  r-controlled o syllable patterns

Math:  Relating addition and subtraction, missing addends

Language:  Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names

You may click on the homework tab at the top of this page to see spelling words and homework for the week.

What we will be learning this week - Sept. 2-5

This week we will be working on the following skills:

Reading:  Continue learning about story structure (beginning, middle, and end).
Spelling:  r-controlled a syllable patterns
Math:  Subtraction
Language:  Compare formal and informal uses of English

You may click on the homework tab at the top of this page to see the spelling words and homework for the week.

Reminders:  Scholastic book orders are due this Friday, September 5.  You may also send box tops to school.

The First Two Weeks of School

We have been very busy during these first weeks of school. We have learned about my classroom procedures and rules and are practicing these every day.  We want the classroom to run smoothly to maximize our learning time.  In spelling we have reviewed initial and final blends, digraphs and long vowel words with the VCe pattern.  We learned that we are all mathematicians and made a hallway display.

These cute mathematicians came from Let's Get Started...beginning of the year math lessons and activities by Amy Lemons.  We also used numbers to tell about ourselves.  This By the Numbers activity is from Donna Boucher.

We have also been working on addition facts up to 20.  Every day we also count to 200 and skip count by tens and fives to 200. In reading we have been learning about story structure.  This includes setting, characters, and the beginning, middle and end of the story. In language we are reviewing sentences and sentence fragments.  We are also reviewing sentence punctuation and capitalization.  Room 11 has been very busy these first two weeks.