Report Cards and Some Misc. Items

• Report cards will be sent home on Monday. Please look for an envelope with your child's report card. 
• We will be starting topic 6 in math this week. Please continue to log into Reflex Math to practice math facts!
• As the weather turns colder, just a reminder that students still go outside to recess, so please make sure they have appropriate winter clothing so they aren't too cold outside.

Thank you and have a great weekend!

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
r-controlled ar, or, ore

• 1. part
• 2. hard
• 3. born
• 4. horse
• 5. before
• 6. more
• 7. smart
• 8. farm
• 9. porch
• 10. corn
• 11. chore
• 12. score

Week 2
Contractions

• 1. didn’t
• 2. it’s
• 3. aren’t
• 4. he’s
• 5. I’m
• 6. who’s
• 7. can’t
• 8. isn’t
• 9. she’s
• 10. haven’t
• 11. I’ll
• 12. hadn’t

Week 3
r-controlled er, ir, ur

• 1. person
• 2. nurse
• 3. dirt
• 4. turn
• 5. birth
• 6. serve
• 7. curb
• 8. curl
• 9. skirt
• 10. purse
• 11. turtle
• 12. her

Week 4
Plural –s – es -ies s

• 1. lunch
• 2. lunches
• 3. story
• 4. stories
• 5. tune
• 6. tunes
• 7. switch
• 8. switches
• 9. baby
• 10. babies
• 11. note
• 12. notes

Week 5
Long a a, ai, ay

• 1. main
• 2. wait
• 3. say
• 4. away
• 5. play
• 6. raise
• 7. brain
• 8. paint
• 9. stay
• 10. today
• 11. tray
• 12. tail

Spelling Words

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 2, Week 5 (One Good Turn Deserves Another)

Due to no school for students on Friday, the spelling tests and reading test will be on Thursday. 

 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.)
Working Together:  How can we work together?	How can we work together to solve problems?
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 a:  a, ai, ay	Long a:  a, ai, ay away   brain   main   paint   play   raise   say   stay   tail   today   tray   wait
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
behind   brought   door   everybody   minute   promise   sorry	armadillo   creature   grateful   groaned   snorted
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.)
coax   conflict   deserve   mope   pursue   ramp   resolve   startle	Qq, Vv Letter Spacing

Items Needed

As the weather turns colder we could always use kleenex and clorox/lysol disinfectant wipes. If you are able to donate any to our class we would appreciate it! Thank you!

Spelling Words

Second Grade Weekly Study Skills

Unit 2, Week 4 (The Bremen Town Musicians)

 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.)
Working Together:  How can we work together?	Why is it a good idea to work together?
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.)
Plurals  -s, -es, -ies	Plurals  -s, -es, -ies babies   baby   lunch   lunches   note   notes   stories   story   switch   switches   tune   tunes
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
bought   people    pleasant   probably   scared   shall   sign	excitement   mill   monsters   musicians   robbers
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.)
depend   familiar   insist   miserable   partnership   solution  struggle   survival	Ww, Yy Letter Slant