Second Grade's Objectives
for the week
February 6 - February 10th
Spelling:
Spelling test on Friday over these words:
Spelling Words: flower, water, under, over, better, sister, brother, mother, father, after Challenge words; other, center
Sentences: 1) Can I smell the flower? 2) Our car went over a bump. 3) I will call my mother.
Reading: We will be doing the story Brothers and Sisters this week.
Skills:
Phonemes, blends
Summarizing/infer/evaluate/monitor
Predicting/Drawing Conclusions
Identify details, main idea, supporting details
Decoding strategies - prefixes, and suffixes
Setting of the story
Cause and Effect
Compare and contrast
ou, ow sounds
Affixes: er, est, ing, ed, ly, ful
Generalizations
Language Skills: Identifying the four types of sentences:
Telling, Asking, Excitement, Commands
Identify and write verbs in a sentence
Introduce pronouns/ special nouns
Review contractions
Verbs in sentences
Identify and combine sentences
Science:
Resources and their uses
Start Unit on soil identify simple tools and their uses- thermometer, magnifying glass, ruler, etc.
How worms change soil.
Weather: seasons, types of weather- thunderstorms, tornados, hurricanes
Math: Chapter 16 Charts and Graphs
Bar graphs, points on a grid, mode, range, median
Fluency with basic numbers to 20 - subtraction
Use mental math for addition and subtraction
Social Studies: Unit 3 Introduce Unit 3
Vocabulary - goods, barter, services, trade, produce, producer, producing, consumer, consuming
Discuss spending and saving
Upcoming events:
Feb 23, 2012 PTO meeting 5:30
Valentine's Party Feb. 14th - 2:00 -3:00.
Parent/Teacher Conferences Feb. 16th from 3:00 to 6:00.
Our second grade Prince is William Akins and our princess is Madison Johnson. We need items to put in our basket to auction of during Gree Acres Day May 5th.
We will have two baskets - one an office/school supply basket and the other a toy basket.
Our Second grade field trip to Onondaga Cave is May 11th for those students who do not have 3 or more pink slips(majors).
Daily homework is spelling words 10 minutes, reading 10 minutes- read newspaper, a book, etc. and 10 minutes on addition and subtraction facts.
We are still collecting money and items for Joplin. Thank you!
PTO Meetings have changed to Thursday nights at 5:30 for March 22 and April 5th.
Miss Todd