Homework for Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Post date: Jan 20, 2021 5:59:45 PM
Reading: Fluency sheet for specified students.
All Students - Read for 15 to 20 minutes each evening. Make sure you are writing down in your planner the title of the book and how many pages and/or minutes that you read. There is a special area on the planner page for this information to be recorded.
Spelling: Please practice your Red Words and dictation sheets for your Friday spelling test.
Math: Lesson 7, Module 4
Weekly Focus Information for the Week of January 19, 2021 to January 22, 2021
Dear Parents,
Spelling:
This week we will begin our 2nd Grade, 3rd quarter Red Word list of words. Our first two Red Words are always and brother. Our new “Green Word Pattern” phonics lesson will be “er” as in fern (r-Controlled Vowel or bossy r).
Red Words RF.2.3
“Red Words” are non-phonetic words that do not follow the rules and cannot be sounded out.
Our “Red Word” spelling test this week will be the following 2nd Grade, 3rd quarter Red Words: always and brother.
We will once again study these words throughout the week before we have our weekly spelling test.
The final grade for these words will be on Friday, January 22, 2021.
Green Word Pattern Focus
RF.2.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
Our “Green Word” pattern/focus for the week will be learning about the “r-Controlled Vowels.” They are introduced as the three / /’s or the bossy r. The first of the three will be the spelling er which is the most frequently used. It should be the first choice when making an educated guess about how to spell a word with an / /. Please practice these words as your child brings them home on dictation pages. Weekly spelling words may come from the dictation pages. Students will be expected to apply all classroom information to ten or more “er” words on their Friday spelling test.
Reading
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
We will continue to focus on our standard of RL.2.2 throughout the week as we review the elements of a fable, as well as, compare and contrast two fables. We will also begin our study of “Fairy Tales.” We will learn the elements of a fairy tale and complete a “plot diagram” for each fairy tale. Our first fairy tale reading will be “Little Red Riding Hood” by James Marshall. We will read this selection during Guided Reading groups.
Our writing focus will continue to be informational writing activities within our reading and science studies. (W2.2)
Math
Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.
Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.1
We will complete Module 4, Lessons 6 – 8 this week and take our Lesson 6 – 8 Quiz on Friday. Our focus will be learning strategies to make a ten.
Science/Social Studies –
Our Science focus will continue to be force and motion. We will be conducting experiments in the classroom and completing a new “science journal.”
Thank you,
Mrs. Arp, Mr. Inman, Mrs. Stephenson