Field Trip!

A note is coming home today about the second grade end of year field trip. Please look for this note and send it back to school by tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest (we have to get the lunch count in). Thank you!

Spelling Words

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 6, Week 2 (Red, White, and Blue:  The Story of the American Flag)

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.)
Traditions:  Are traditions and celebrations important in our lives?	What traditions and celebrations involve our country’s flag?
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.)
Abbreviations	Abbreviations: Aug.  Dec.   Dr.   Feb.   Jan.   Mr.    Mrs.   Ms.   Nov.   Oct.   Rd.   St.
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
answer   company   faraway   parents   picture   school   wash	America   birthday   flag   freedom   nicknames   stars   stripes
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.)
allegiance   frayed   history   independence   indivisible   patriotic   symbol   unfurl	Letter Smoothness

Spelling Words

Unit 6, Week 1 (Just Like Josh Gibson)

   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.)
Traditions:  Are traditions and celebrations important in our lives?	Why are sports traditions important in our country?
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.)
Inflected Endings	Inflected Endings: heavier   heaviest   lighter   lightest   liked   liking   planned   planning   skipped   skipping   tried   trying
High-Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
guess   pretty   science   shoe   village   watch	bases   cheers   field   plate   sailed   threw
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.)
athlete   challenge   champion   dainty   disguise   effort   professional   shortstop	Cursive Letters U, V, W, Y Letter and Word Spacing

Spelling Review

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 Friday and can be any 15 words from this list.

Week 1
Suffixes -ful, -ly, -er, -or

• 1. cheerful
• 2. visitor
• 3. slowly
• 4. weekly
• 5. teacher
• 6. helper
• 7. hardly
• 8. graceful
• 9. yearly
• 10. quickly
• 11. fighter
• 12. sailor

Week 2
Prefixes un, pre, re, dis

• 1. unsafe
• 2. preheat
• 3. rerun
• 4. disappear
• 5. unlock
• 6. discolor
• 7. rewind
• 8. unpack
• 9. unplug
• 10. regroup
• 11. preschool
• 12. disagree

Week 3
Consonant Sounds kn, gn, wr, mb

• 1. knock
• 2. sign
• 3. knee
• 4. wrong
• 5. write
• 6. climb
• 7. wrap
• 8. wren
• 9. gnat
• 10. lamb
• 11. comb
• 12. knob

Week 4
Consonant Sounds ph, gh, ck

• 1. phone
• 2. enough
• 3. backtrack
• 4. laugh
• 5. ticket
• 6. duckling
• 7. graph
• 8. tough
• 9. photo
• 10. rough
• 11. cough
• 12. clang

Week 5
au, augh, aw, al

• 1. talk
• 2. because
• 3. August
• 4. caught
• 5. draw
• 6. walk
• 7. chalk
• 8. auto
• 9. taught
• 10. thaw
• 11. fault
• 12. launch

Volunteers Needed!

Parents:
Hopefully by now you have heard of the math-a-thon. We are asking students to collect pledges for the number of math problems they get correct on a 100 question math review that will take place April 9th. I am asking for 3-5 volunteers that day to help correct tests from approximately 9:30-10:30 am on April 9th. The tests will be multiple choice and as you correct you would be calling students back to correct the problems they got wrong. For some students, this will move quickly, others might take some more time and help. Once they are correct, 2nd graders will be able to go outside for some recess and a treat from 10:10-10:30am. If you would like to stay and help with playground supervision that would be appreciated but if you can only stay for test corrections that is also appreciated. There are links to two online sign-ups below. The first one is for my class only to help correct tests. The second is one from the PTA to help with playground supervision. Feel free to sign up for one or both. Thank you for all your help and support! Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

 http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4FA8AD2DA4FA7-mathathon

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4DA5A62FAA8-mathathon