Spelling

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.)
Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?	How do plants change over time?
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.)
Vowels oo, u	Vowels oo, u book   brook   cook   full   hood   July   pull   push   put   shook   stood   wood
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   woman   work   world	bumpy   fruit   harvest   root   smooth   soil   vine
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.)
adapt   ancient   annual   blazing   drought   massive   nutrients   sprout	Cursive Letters t, i, u Letter Slant

Please Review

Parents,
You will be seeing more writing coming home starting this week. Some pages will just be checked off for completion while other writing pieces will have more specific feedback on it. Please be sure to check your child's work as it comes home and take a few minutes to review it with them.

We have also started regrouping in math. We have been covering addition for the past two weeks and will begin to move into subtraction with regrouping. While some students have a firm grasp on this concept other students are still struggling quite a bit. Please take some time to review math pages that come home and reinforce this concept at home. Thank you for your support!

Spelling Words

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.)
Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?	How can familiar things help us with changes?
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.)
Syllables:  Consonant + le	Syllables:  Consonant + le able   ankle   apple   bubble   bugle   bundle   cable   giggle   purple   sparkle   tickle   title
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
ago   family   father   mother   warm	clearing   crashed   perfect   pond   spilling   splashing   traveled
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.)
concentration   frown   homeland   patient   preserve   represent   tough   valuable	Letter Formation

Review Week

This week’s spelling test will be a review of the previous 5 weeks of spelling. If your student has mastered these spelling patterns, they shouldn’t have any problems at all with the words. Please review these spelling words with your child. The test will be any 15 words from this list.

Week 1
Long e sound e, ee, ea, y

• 1. read
• 2. feet
• 3. easy
• 4. deep
• 5. seat
• 6. party
• 7. wheel
• 8. leave
• 9. windy
• 10. sleep
• 11. teeth
• 12. team

Week 2
Long o sound o, oa, ow

• 1. goat
• 2. hold
• 3. show
• 4. most
• 5. bowl
• 6. float
• 7. toast
• 8. ago
• 9. open
• 10. told
• 11. toad
• 12. slow

Week 3
Compound Words

• 1. basketball
• 2. someone
• 3. weekend
• 4. something
• 5. birthday
• 6. riverbank
• 7. bathtub
• 8. backyard
• 9. driveway
• 10. bedtime
• 11. raindrop
• 12. mailbox

Week 4
Long i sound i, ie, y, igh

• 1. find
• 2. child
• 3. sky
• 4. bright
• 5. wild
• 6. fly
• 7. right
• 8. flight
• 9. spider
• 10. cry
• 11. blind
• 12. myself

Week 5
Comparing using er, est

• 1. sooner
• 2. soonest
• 3. hotter
• 4. hottest
• 5. busier
• 6. busiest
• 7. happier
• 8. happiest
• 9. smaller
• 10. smallest
• 11. fatter
• 12. fattest

Ask your child about...

        

Their New Years Resolutions! Each student wrote out some goals they have for the New Year and this had me thinking, how can I help them? I came up with a few resources (mainly websites) to aid in you helping your child succeed.

www.pearsonsuccessnet.com (This website requires your child’s individual username and password. Please contact me if you do not know what that is and I will be happy to give it to you. This is a great site with personalized language arts lessons depending on what each child needs to improve on).

www.abcya.com (This website is full of educational games. The games are broken down by grade level so feel free to master second grade concepts and then move on! )

www.storyonline.com (This website has actors and actresses reading children’s books out loud. I use this in class sometimes and students love it).

www.mathfactcafe.com  (This website allows you print out customized math worksheets, including math facts, money, telling time and more!).

http://i-canyonsparenttoolkit.canyonsdistrict.org/2nd-grade.html (This is a link to the canyons district website with specifics based on the report card. There are links provided to supplemental activities depending on what your child needs to continue to work on).

Some other activities are of course, reading at home with your child and discussing with them what they read.  Now that we are at the half waypoint of second grade your child should be doing most of the reading. A good rule is the “five finger rule”; if there are five words on a page that your child does not know that book is probably too hard for them.

Another activity is math facts. This can be done with flash cards, math fact café website, out loud while in the car, anywhere you have an extra minute, be creative!

http://butler.canyonsdistrict.org/ Also, be sure to check out our school website for information on school activities and links to any missing flyers that may have not made it home.

I hope this list can be a springboard for ideas on ways to support your child outside of school. I am lucky to work with this great group of students! 

Spelling

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.)
Creative Ideas:  What does it mean to be creative?	Where do creative ideas come from?
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.)
Comparative Endings	Comparative Endings busier   busiest   fatter   fattest   happier   happiest   hotter   hottest   smaller   smallest   sooner   soonest
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
clothes   hours   money   neighbor   only   question   taught	agriculture   college   greenhouse   laboratory
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.)
accomplish   excel   opportunity   original   process   research   scientist   unusual	Letters o, w, b, v, z, s, r, and f Letter Formation