Here is our plan for this new week ahead!
Reading Language Arts- Test 2/ 3 (Comprehension/Vocabulary)
Unit 2 Text Set 2 (2 Week Outlook)
The Wonders Stories: We continue to read two fables in which animals teach us lessons: The Boy Who Cried Wolf and Wolf! Wolf!
High Frequency Words (Can you read these fluently?) – baby, seven, eight, start, these, isn’t, try, early, learn, walk
Vocabulary words (and their meanings) include believe, delicious, feast, fond, lessons, remarkable, snatch, stories
Spelling Test Fri. 2/3 Our weekly words include those with digraphs and trigraphs: chop, catch, shape, trash, phone, that, sting, thin, bring, while, this, that’s, seven, isn’t, early
Grammar -kinds of nouns (common, proper, collective)
Handwriting
Review of basic strokes and keys to legibility
Math-Module 6- Test 2/1
Counting within 1,000 Review
Module 7 Begins- Money and Time
Social Studies / Science
Martin Luther King Jr. Read Aloud
Black History Month- we will bring to light the accomplishments and achievements of Black American artists, inventors, explorers, activists, and scientists throughout our American history who made the world a better place. We will then ask ourselves, “How will I make the world a better place?”
Groundhog Day- February 2
Social Studies Lesson: Use Maps to Locate Places vocabulary- relative location, absolute location, town, legend, city, compass rose, symbol
Classroom maps
Animal Biodiversity and Classification- We will explore animal classification/traits that define each group
Mystery Science
Scholastic News
Religion-Chapel is Wednesday
Season of Epiphany
Prayers added to our prayer book as well as handwritten prayers added to our classroom prayer box
We will be preparing to lead chapel on February 15. Our in-school projects will begin this week. The children are very excited! We’ve watched (https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/elizabeth-and-the-greatest-gift/) to explain and introduce Samaritan’s Purse and Operation (Christmas) Shoebox. We will be watching other videos so stay tuned! The inspiration for our project comes from the book,
Please see the note sent home Fri. 1/20 for details! More information to follow.
Important Information and News:
♥This week was Trinity Lutheran’s Spirit Week! I hope everyone had fun participating!
♥Please send in your shoeboxes if you have not done so already. If you do not have one around, no worries, extras will be found! Thank you!
♥Please keep in mind that all schoolwide chapel offerings collected for the month of February will be allocated towards our project in second grade!
♥The Scholastic Book order deadline has been extended to this Friday, Feb. 3.
♥Calling all readers! Please sign up to be a Mystery Reader! Second grade would ♥love♥ to have you! Kindly email me at [email protected] for information and scheduling.
Mrs. Antonia Ryan