Discipline Plan Addition

Our discipline plan is working. Students are pulling fewer and fewer rule strips each day. Students are getting used to the routine, rules, and expected behavior. When students pull one rule strip that is a warning. To make the students more accountable for their behavior, students will be writing letters home to parents at the end of each day if a rule strip was pulled during the day. I ask that parents or guardians read the letter, sign, and return it to school the following day.

Information from Second Grade Success

Spelling Words for this week:
Bone, robe, use, these, rope, note, cute, close, hope, those, one, goes, drove, mule

Weekly Spelling Homework:
Monday Practice Reading Words
Tuesday Write each word 3 times
Wednesday Write words in a sentence
Thursday Study for test
Friday Test will be given using ten words and two bonus words


Phonics:
Short Vowels a, i, o, u, e, VCCV, CVCe, Long Vowels a, I (Cumulative Review)
Comprehension:
Predict/Infer, Fantasy/Realism, Predicting Outcomes (Review)
Vocabulary:
High Frequency Words: Multiple meaning words, Homophones, Synonyms
(Review)
Fluency:
Reading Decodable Text, Leveled Readers

Kentucky Author Catherine Clark Payne will be coming to our school on Tuesday, September 2, 2008.

Reading- We will be reviewing this week.
Writing- We have been working on “All About Me” Posters. The posters will be used to write a book about each person in our class. The books will be on display in our classroom library. Writing the books will help us develop our ability to write complete sentences with correct punctuation.

Reminders
No School Monday, September 1

Remember to wear tennis shoes on gym days Monday/Wednesday and also Friday for Mrs. Campbell’s class.

Math Whizz

On Friday, we were able to get every one's Math Whizz assessment completed. We will be going to the computer lab twice a week to work on this program. The advantage to Math Whizz is that your child will also be able to work on this program at home. Your child will have his/her username and password written on the newsletter today. The web site to login and play Math Whizz is http://www.whizz.com/. Your child will then need to click on the red login icon at the top of the screen. If you have any questions, please email or call.

Second Grade Success

Targetted Skills for this week.
Phonics:
Long Vowels CVCe : A, I
Comprehension:
Predicting Outcomes
Vocabulary:
High Frequency Words: Multiple meaning words
Fluency:
Reading Decodable Text, Leveled Readers

Math- We will be finishing up graphs this week. We will also be taking a computer assessment from a program called Math Whizz. Please encourage your children to look around them and find graphs in the real world.
Reading- We will be reading the story Mrs. Brown Went to Town this week.
Writing- We have been working on “All About Me” Posters. The posters will be used to write a book about each person in our class. The books will be on display in our classroom library. Writing the books will help us develop our ability to write complete sentences with correct punctuation.

Spelling Words for this week:
Bite, fine, late, same, size, hide, made, line, side, give, ate, have, gate, bike, shake, write

Weekly Spelling Homework:
Monday Practice Reading Words
Tuesday Write each word 3 times
Wednesday Write words in a sentence
Thursday Study for test
Friday Test will be given using ten words and two bonus words

Reminders
Please remember to turn in fundraiser packets. Money is due on Thursday.

Remember to wear tennis shoes on gym days Monday/Wednesday

Second Grade Success

This information comes from the weekly newsletter.

Skills that we will be working on this week include:

Phonics
Short Vowels o, u, e; VCCV Pattern
Comprehension
Fantasy and Realism
Vocabulary
High Frequency Words: Synonyms
Fluency
Reading Decodable Text, Leveled Readers

Math- We are still covering graphs. We have discussed the vocabulary words pictograph, bar graph, tally, rows, columns, more, fewer, equal, addition, subtraction, Venn diagram, data, chart, table, symbol, and key. This week we will be taking the GMADE. When we get the data back from this test, we will know how to direct instruction better.

Reading- Last week we read, Dragon Gets BY: Shopping. This week we will be reading Julius.

Writing- We have been working on “All About Me” Posters. The posters will be used to write a book about each person in our class. The books will be on display in our classroom library. Writing the books will help us develop our ability to write complete sentences with correct punctuation.

Reminders
Please sign and return weekly behavior reports on Monday.

Please don’t forget about the fundraiser!!!


All student fee money $17 needs to be turned in ASAP.

Remember to wear tennis shoes on gym days: Monday and Wednesday

These are the vocabulary and high frequency words that we have covered.

Shopping
Bought
Balanced
Roll
Dairy
Until
Diet
Front
Shopper
Floor
Vegetables
Hungry
Noise
Kitchen
Spread
Surprise
Slurped
Special
Crumbs
Brought
Imitation

Spelling Words for the Week of August 11, 2008

Spelling Words for this week:
Fox, went, wet, mop, nut, hug, job, from, leg, any, fun, of, red, up, block, every

Weekly Spelling Homework:
Monday Practice Reading Words
Tuesday Write each word 3 times
Wednesday Write words in a sentence
Thursday Study for test
Friday Test will be given using ten words and two bonus words

Weekly Info

On Fridays, I will be sending home a weekly behavior report. Please sign and return to school on the following Monday.

Students will bring home completed work daily as it is finished and looked over.

The reading skills focus this week is as follows:
Phonics: Short vowels a, i
Comprehension: Story Structure (beginning, middle, end)
Vocabulary: High Frequency Words: Homophones
Fluency: Reading Decodable Text, Leveled Readers

Spelling Words for Week of August 4/ Spelling Homework

bag
ran
win
if
is
dig
am
sat
his
was
has
I
big
an
scratch
picnic

Spelling Homework

Monday Practice Reading Words
Tuesday Write each word 3 times
Wednesday Write words in a sentence
Thursday Study for test
Friday Test will be given using ten words and two bonus words

Reading Vocabulary Words Week of August 4

shopping- going to a store to buy things
balanced- even; not too much of one thing
dairy- foods made from milk or cream
diet-the usual food or drink of a person
shopper-a person who buys things
vegetables- roots, stems, leaves, or flowers of plants used as food
hungry- needing food
kitchen- a room in a house to prepare food
roll- to twist to turn
front-first; opposite of back
bought- paid for something
until- to wait; time has to pass