The Week of September 25


Group 1
Spelling words:if, is, him,his, fin, hit.
High frequency words:for, he, what, look, have, too
Student will practice to blend  words with short i and consonants r, h and /z/ s
Student will read and answer the questions for the story Pip Can Help in the Write-in Reader 
Read the informational text The Storm and understand the characters.
Practice words with short /i/ sound.

Group 2
Spelling words:spoke, mile, save, excuse, cone, invite, cube,five, alone,close Bonus:basement,complete
Vocabulary: trial, jury, convince, guilty, pointed, honest, murmur, stand

Review the sounds of long vowels.Students will learn that a word that follows the VCe( vowel consonant e ) pattern, the first vowel has a long vowel sound and the e is silent.Model and practice VCe pattern words.Review the meaning of vocabulary words.
Students will read the story The Trail of John Peter Zenger in Write in Reader and answer the comprehension questions.

The Week of September 18


Group 1
Spelling words: pal,mat,tan,man,pan, fan..
High frequency words:and, you, be, play, help, with
Student will practice to blend sounds in words. Learn to identify the beginning, middle and end sounds. Student will read What is A Pal and discuss the things can pals do together.Learn that nouns can name person, place or things. 
Practice words with short /a/ sound.

Group 2
Spelling words:gift, class, skip, swing,chest, body, ugly, cabin, copy,upset Bonus: igloo,October
Vocabulary: principal, soared, strolled, worried, proud, announced, fine, certainly

Review the sounds of short vowels and their sounds.Identify the subject and predicate in a simple sentence. Practice VCCV pattern.
Read the informational text One room School House and compare how schools in olden days are same and different than now.

The Week of May 8th

Grade 2 L/A

Vocabulary words::Assistant, agreed, polite, failed, tearing, wisdom, cleared, trouble
Spelling words:car, dark, star, arm, park, yard, party,hard, farm, start
High Frequency words:are, baby, didn't, good, i'll, is, please, sound, talk, too
Students will learn that the letters ar together stand for the sound /r/ and can be at the beginning, middle or end of a word.We will discuss about the different types of sign that we see and how they keep us safe. Then Students will take turns to read the humorous fiction The Signmaker's Assistant. We will discuss the characters in the story and how the illustrations help us to understand them. Students will practice using commas in dates and places.
Math
 We will continue learning about measurement units such as inches and feet. We will also learn about the appropriate tools for measuring different lengths and also about line plots.We will take a chapter review test. We will start a new chapter on geometric shapes and their attributes.

The Week of April 24th

Grade 2 L/A

Vocabulary words:practice, hurried, position, roared, extra, curb, cheered, final
Spelling words:night, kind, spy, child, light, find, try, pie, child,why
High Frequency words: any, blue, carry, doing, else, room, studied, sure, teacher, turned
Students will  learn the sounds in words with  long i spelled i, ie, igh, y.Students will
 take turns to read the realistic fiction, Luke Goes To Bat and discuss the essential questions on each page. Identify and understand antonyms using sentence context.
Math
This week we will start a new chapter on Measurement. Students will learn that objects can be measured and will compare line segments drawn on the board using the vocabulary terms shorter and shortest.Students will make their own ruler using color tiles and measure objects like, pencils, markers, crayons in the class.As they use colors to shade each inch, they visualize the length of an inch.

The Week of March 27th

Grade 2 L/A

Vocabulary words: knowledge, curious, motion, silence, illness, imitated, darkness, behavior
Spelling words::cannot, pancake, maybe, baseball, playground, someone, myself, classroom, rainbow, homework
High Frequency words: :after, book, care, ever, live, new, off, over, small, thought
Students will  learn how compound words are formed.Students will take turns to read the Humorous fiction Officer Buckle and Gloria and answer the essential questions on each page. We will look for events that happens in the story and the causes for it.Review past and future tenses.
Math:
This week we will student will learn to subtract three digit numbers. Students will practice using the place value mat for 3 digit subtraction. We will review place value and find to see if we have enough ones and tens to subtract from..We will practice using cubes and work mat and work sheets.

The Week of March 6th

Grade 2 L/A

Vocabulary words: culture, community, languages, transportation, subjects, lessons, special, wear
Spelling words:free , teach, teeth, please, beach, wheel, team, speak, sneeze, sheep
High Frequency words: about, everything, first, her, of, slowly, store, slowly, two, world

Students will practice the sound spelling correspondence for vowel teams ee, and ea.Learn to use Quotation marks in sentences.We will read the informational text Schools Around The World .While we read, we look for photographs and captions that gives information about the topic.

Math:
This week we will continue to practice using the  standard algorithm for 2 digit subtraction. children will practice to look at ones place number fist and think if we have enough ones to take away from?. Students will be taught to borrow 1 ten from the number at the tens place and then subtract the ones column numbers to find the difference. Students will use the subtraction poem to to practice borrowing tens and find the difference.We will practice using cubes and work mat and work sheets.

The Week of February 21st

Grade 2 L/A

Vocabulary words: understand, gathered, impatient, impossible, believe, problem, demand, furious
Spelling words:hens, eggs, ducks, bikes, boxes,wishes, dresses, names, preheat, misheard
High Frequency words: another, far, grow, hard, heard, kind, light, more, some,to

Students will practice to  write words with endings -e and -es. Review forming regular and irregular plural nouns.We will revisit  the Humorous fiction Click ,Clack, Moo: Cows That Type and answer the questions on the student practice page.We will practice writing a persuasive letter.Students will learn to determine the meaning of a new word with prefix pre- and mis-.Students will read the leveled reader Zoo party and draw conclusions about what happens  in the story

Math:
This week we will continue to practice  to tell and write time to the minutes  Students will use the position of the hour and minute hand to tell time on an analog clock.Students will describe time using A.M.which means before noon  and P.M. means after noon. Learn that these are two of each time in a single day. Discuss activities that happens in the A.M. and P.M.