Homework for Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Post date: May 09, 2018 10:28:55 PM

Reading: Please continue to add to the "May Reading Log."

Spelling Information for the Week of May 7, 2018, to May 11, 2018

Dear Parents,

Red Words: New – father, shoe Review – part, ghost

Red Word Focus

The next two 4^th quarter Red Words will be father and shoe. The students will also continue to review the words ghost and part for a final test on Friday. We will practice all of these words in the classroom throughout the week. Our test will be on Friday, May 11, 2018.

Green Word Focus

RF.2.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words

Our Green Word pattern will be the review of the following Vowel Teams: oa (boat), oe (toe), ea (sea), ee (see), ay (stay), and ai (paid). Please practice the Green Word pattern vowel team review dictation pages as your child brings them home. Weekly spelling words will come from the dictation pages. Students will be expected to apply all classroom information to ten or more Vowel Team Review Patterns in words on their Friday spelling test.

Reading Focus

Our reading focus will be the sport of “baseball” and the legendary baseball player, “Jackie Robinson.” We will be reading the realistic fiction book, “The Hero Two Doors Down.” CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Our writing focus will include the topic of baseball and the application of adjectives and adverbs within their writing activities. (CCSS.ELA.L.2.1.E); CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3 Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.)

Please note that our spelling test for the week will be on Friday, May 11, 2018, and will include the Red words ghost, part, father, and shoe, and the Green Word Pattern, Vowel Team Review Patterns.

Thank you,

Mrs. Arp