The Week of January 30th

Grade 2 L/A

Vocabulary words: millions, choices, drift, simple, weaker, wrapped, disgusting, decide
Spelling words: I'm, don't, isn't, can't, we'll, it's, smaller, strongest, louder, tallest
High Frequency words: because, better, go, me, old, really, right, they, was, you

Students will practice to form and use contractions.. We will read the informational text Jellies and learn  about the different kids of Jellies.. Students learn to form past tense verbs by adding -ed. We will review  kinds of nouns.

Math:
This week we will continue learning the values of different coins, pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Students will learn a counting sequence that remains consistent that counting coins of greatest value to coins of least value. We will practice counting coins in class.

The Week of January 23rd


Grade 2 L/A

Vocabulary words: tunnel, curled, height, direction, toward, healed, brag, tease
Spelling words: baked, hiding, standing, asked, saved, shaking,wanted,shining

Students will practice to add -ed and -ing endings to the base word. We will  revisit the Story How Chipmunk Got His Stripes and discuss the actions of each characters. Students will work on Synonym words. We will review  kinds of nouns.

Math:
This week we will start a new chapter on Time and Money. Students will  learn to find the total value of a group of dimes, nickels, and pennies. Students will learn to add the value of dimes by counting by 10, nickels by skip  counting by 5 and pennies by counting by 1's.

The Week of January 16th


Grade 2 L/A

Vocabulary words: tunnel, curled, height, direction, toward, healed, brag, tease
Spelling words: liked, using, riding, chased, spilled, making, closed, hoping

Students will practice to add -ed and -ing endings to the base word. We will read the Story How Chipmunk Got His Stripes and answer the essential questions  on each page.We will also look at the illustrations how it is helping to understand the characters in the story.
Students will work with words with CV Syllable pattern.

Math:
This week we will continue to practice 2 digit addition word problems. Students will also learn to compute sums of three digit numbers using the standard algorithm.To add the digits , students may choose to start at the top of the column and add straight down.

 

The Week of January  9, 2017
Grade 2 
L/A
Vocabulary words: beware, damage, bend, flash, pounding, prevent, reach, equal
Spelling words: shine, chase, white, match, these, push, while, thin

This week we will continue practice  to spell and write words with digraphs, wh, ph, th, sh, ch.
We will read the lesson Super Storms and discuss the main idea and supporting details in the lesson.
Students will practice blend and decode regularly spelled base words with endings -s, -ed and -ing. We will identify action verbs in sentences.


Math:
This week we will continue working on  2 digit addition with  regrouping. Students will rewrite the horizontal addition problems vertically in the standard algorithm format and also use bar models to solve addition word problems.