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
short vowel
sounds

• 1. rock
• 2. list
• 3. desk
• 4. job
• 5. sad
• 6. chop
• 7. sack
• 8. tag
• 9. rib
• 10. mess
• 11. dust
• 12. drum

Week 2
Long vowels
VCe

• 1. page
• 2. nose
• 3. space
• 4. size
• 5. fine
• 6. mice
• 7. late
• 8. huge
• 9. blaze
• 10. race
• 11. rice
• 12. vote

Week 3
Consonant
blends

• 1. stop
• 2. strap
• 3. nest
• 4. hand
• 5. brave
• 6. ask
• 7. clip
• 8. stream
• 9. mask
• 10. twin
• 11. breeze
• 12. state

Week 4
Suffixes
-ed, -ing, -s

• 1. hugged
• 2. dropping
• 3. lifted
• 4. talked
• 5. hugging
• 6. lifting
• 7. talking
• 8. smiling
• 9. excited
• 10. dropped
• 11. exciting
• 12. smiled

Week 5
blends sh,
th, tch, wh,

• 1. shape
• 2. that
• 3. whale
• 4. chase
• 5. bunch
• 6. when
• 7. wish
• 8. them
• 9. math
• 10. itch
• 11. patch
• 12. what

Reflex Math

Parents,
Today your child will be bringing a letter home regarding a program called reflex math. It is a fantastic math fact fluency program that the school district has given us access to. Please read through the letter and sign in using the provided login information. I would recommend spending 10-15 minutes a day on this program. You will be amazed at how quickly your child will become comfortable with math facts. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for your support.

Spelling Words

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 1, Week 5 (The Strongest One)

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?	How does exploration help us find answers?
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.)
Consonant digraphs	Consonant digraphs: bunch   chase   itch   math   patch   shape   that   them   whale   what   when   wish
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
gone   learn   often   pieces   though   together   very	dangerous   gnaws   narrator   relatives
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.)
delicate   exhibit   genius   inquire   resist   satisfaction   stun   sturdy	Tt, Hh, Kk Word spacing

Spelling Test Sentences

As spelling tests start to go home I’d just like to provide some clarification on how I grade the three sentences on the bottom. These sentences are dictated orally and contain words students either already know how to spell or have learned the spelling/phonics patterns and should be able to decode them.

The students can earn one point for each of the following:

• ·      Starting the sentence with a capital letter
• ·      Ending with the correct punctuation
• ·      All the words spelled correctly
• ·      Proper spacing between words
• ·      Handwriting

This allows for a total of 5 points per sentence.

Odds and Ends

Parents,

Just a few reminders and updates for you. First, please make sure your child’s red folder is coming back to school each day. It will go home every day so please check it for notes and papers. It helps them stay organized at school with somewhere to keep their papers.

Second, please remember there is no school for students this Friday.

Third, Thursday, September 25 is picture day.

Finally, tomorrow we have the Living Planet Aquarium coming to visit with second grade! It should be a great experience. Please be sure to ask your child what they learned.

Thank you for your support and please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Spelling Words

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 1, Week 4 (A Walk in the Desert)

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 the desert?
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.)
Base Words and Endings –s, -ed,    -ing	Base Words and Endings –s, -ed,    -ing dropped   dropping   excited   exciting   hugged   hugging   lifted   lifting   smiled   smiling   talked   talking
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
animals   early   eyes   full   warm   water	cactus   climate   coyote   desert   harsh
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.)
arid   dunes   extinct   forbidding   haven   landform   ledge   precipitation	Ff, Bb, Ll