Monday, August 11, 2008

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

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