Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed Christmas and the long break!
Are you interested in visiting our classroom to share some fun and read a book to our class? If so, please let me know as soon as possible so we can set up a date! We’d love to have you!
A Glimpse of the Week Ahead… (Please note that subjects with an * indicate assessment taking place)
English Language Arts
2- Week Reading Focus
Story: Squirrel’s New Year’s Resolution by Pat Miller (Genre: fiction)
•making predictions, sharing our “schema,” exploring characters, plot, problem, and how characters solve a problem as the story evolves, sequencing of events, story mapping, inferencing
*Spelling (Test Friday 1/10) day, week, month, year, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, date, yesterday, today, tomorrow
High Frequency Sight word review
Vocabulary words actions, bank, borders, creek, diner, garden, improve, order, resolution, scampered, stake, trampoline
Grammar
•adjectives
•past/present tense verbs
Phonics
•review of s-blends
Writing
•Writer’s Notebook Journal Writing- January prompts
•What is your new year’s resolution?
•stretching sentences to add details
•Handwriting review of final manuscript letters W w, X x, K k, Z z
•D.E.A.R. Time is drop everything and read time!
Math Module 7 Coins (Test Week of 1/13)
Science/Social Studies
•Chapter 1 Families Today and in the Past: How does life change throughout history?
•Mystery Science
•Scholastic News-nonfiction reading
Religion– Chapel Wednesday
The second grade will be leading chapel on Wednesday, January 15. As always, parents are welcome to attend weekly chapel.
•Epiphany
God bless our new year ahead!
Mrs. Antonia Ryan