First Week in Second Grade

We had a great first week in second grade! Here are the literacy skills we will be practicing for this coming week. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to contact me.

 You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Exploration:  What can we learn from exploring new places and things?	What can we learn by exploring space?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Long vowels:  vowel_e   (VCe)	Long vowels:  vowel_e blaze   fine   huge   late   mice   nose   page   race   rice   size   space   vote
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
everywhere   live (/liv/)   machines   move   woman   work   world	astronaut   experiment   gravity   shuttle   telescope
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
ascend   descend   enormous   journey   launch   meteorite   orbit   universe	Gg, Cc