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

Pearson Successnet Help

Please click on the link below for more information on how to access and utilize Pearson successnet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B92rCGCnT56NdTkyMWhUSjlmNGM/edit?usp=sharing

Spelling Words

Unit 1, Week 3 (Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night)

 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 discover by exploring nature?
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 Blends	Consonant Blends ask   brave   breeze   clip   hand   mask   nest   state   stop   strap   stream   twin
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
bear   build   couldn’t   father   love   mother   straight	drooled   lanterns   shivered   snuggled
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.)
detective   fascinating   fledglings   galaxy   secure   slimy   tranquil   wildlife	Ee, Ss

Pearson Success Net

Parents,
Today your child brought home a letter with a specific username for Pearson success net. The password for all students is core@csd. This is the site that is used in school to take reading tests. Logging in will allow you to see your child's weekly test score as well as follow along with our math curriculum. We have just started topic 2 in math. If you have any questions please let me know. It is a great resource, please utilize it!