Grade Two’s forecasted work for this upcoming spring week of April 22, 2024
Reading Language Arts
Unit 4 Story: “Dear Primo: A Letter to my Cousin” and “Games Around the World” (Assessment scheduled for Friday, 4/26 on * components)
Literature Genre: Realistic Fiction
*Spelling clerk, her, herd, skirt, stir, girl, turn, churn, hurt, burst, work, worse, found, from, birthday
High Frequency Sight Words animal, away, building, found, from, Saturday, thought, today, toward, watch
Poetry in my Pocket Wednesdays
*Vocabulary common, costume, customs, favorite, parade, surrounded, travels, wonder
•Inflectional Endings -s, es, ed, ing
Writing
•April writing prompts in our Poetry/Writing Journals
•Sight word/spelling sentences
Phonics Focus R-Controlled Vowels er, ir, or, ur
*Grammar Goals Helping Verbs
Handwriting Keeping the “Keys to Legibility” in mind as we review manuscript letter formation and get closer to learning cursive!
Math-Module 9 Test date Tuesday 4/23
Module 10 begins-practicing counting strategies using hundred charts and number lines
*Please practice math addition and subtraction facts at home!
Science/Social Studies
Earth Day April 22
Matter Experiments-STEAM Lab
Mystery Science
Scholastic News
Different Kinds of Families (Vocabulary: extended family, generation, guardian, immigrant, citizen, tradition, practice)
Timelines
Religion- Wednesday Chapel -Parents are always welcome to join us for chapel on Wednesdays. Please join us in the church at 8:30.
•In class, we will continue to read the stories of the New Testament that lead to Easter
Important Notes:
There is a Field Trip planned! The second grade will be seeing the musical performance of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Author Mo Willems. If you have not yet sent in a signed permission slip and $15 cash, please do so by this Monday, April 22nd to guarantee our seats for the May 30th performance!
Tests: Please sign and return test slips when sent home. It is strongly encouraged that you review the tests. Test errors will always be reviewed with your child in school; in most cases, the children are able to make their corrections independently.
Homework: If your child has difficulty completing homework on any given night, please let me know with a quick note or email. This will help me focus my attention on particular concepts that need further review well before it is time for assessment. If homework cannot be completed on any given night due to other reasons, please let me know. Incomplete/missing homework is expected to be made up. Thank you!
The second graders are still looking for Mystery Readers for the last few months ahead of school! Won’t you please visit our classroom and read a book to us? We’d love to have you come and visit! Please consider and email me so we can arrange a day and time.
God bless our week ahead!
Antonia Ryan