Homework

District expectations for second graders are that they spend 30 minutes reading and 15 minutes on math homework each night.

Reading Homework:

On Monday-Thursday our homework is to read for 30 minutes per night. Reading counts in many ways. Here are some suggestions that students can do:

• Read independently
• Read to a friend, family member, pet, or stuffed animal
• Listen to someone read (parent, audio book, Storyline Online)
• Go on iReady (log into Clever through Google)
• Practice High Frequency Words (a ring will be coming soon and a list was handed out on Back to School Night/is also available below)
• Practice spelling words (these words are on our Wilson test)
• Go on the Spelling City website
• Practice activity pages from Wilson Fundations
• Work on assignments from school (Reading Buddy Journal, Student of the Week poster, any language arts activities in the homework planner, etc.)
• Write a story in a journal
• Write a letter to someone

Record the reading homework on the reading log that was sent home (or print another copy from below). Each line equals a half hour of reading (so an hour of reading would need to be recorded on two lines). Keep the log in the back of your child's folder. I check it on Fridays. Anyone who completes their homework receives a sticker for the reading chart in our room.

*Please note that Prodigy does NOT count as reading time. This is a wonderful math site, but is not reading practice.

Spelling:

Any time spent practicing spelling can be counted as reading time. Just write "spelling" on the reading log. Students can spell the words out loud, write them somewhere, or practice them on the Spelling City website.

First Grade Review: look, for, has, his, try, she, to, her, or, day, may, way

Wilson Unit One: you, your, they, was, one, said, do, here, rich, shred, flock, blend

Lesson Focus: spelling of /k/ sound, closed syllables, digraphes, consonant blends

Wilson Unit Two: from, does, shall, full, pull, both, talk, walk, toss, stall, stamp, chunk

Lesson Focus: bonus letters, glued sounds (all, am, an, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk) , r-controlled vowels (ar, ir, ur, er, or)

Wilson Unit Three: are, who, what, where, done, goes, pretty, when, here, of, mind, bolt

Lesson Focus: glued sounds (ild, ind, old, olt, ost), vowel teams (ai, ay, ea, ee, ye, oi, oy)

Wilson Unit Four: again, please, animal, sure, use, used, there, why, thicker, softest, swelled, checked

Lesson Focus: suffixes (s, es, ed, ing, er, est), vowel teams (oo, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue, ew)

Wilson Unit Five: against, knew, know, always, often, once, put, very, disrupt, mimic, handful, kindness

Lesson Focus: two-syllable words, syllable division rules, ic sound at the end of words, suffixes (ful, men, ness, less, able, en, ish), prefixes (mis, un, non, dis, trans)

Wilson Unit Six: only, house, move, right, place, together, two, too, doze, rise, reptile, adjective

Lesson Focus: vowel-consonant-e syllable, s (sounds like /s/ or /z/), suffix ive

Wilson Unit Seven A: eight, large, change, also, some, come, would, could, should, other, shy, predict

Wilson Unit Seven B: city, every, family, say, says, see, between, night, carry, something, cozy, duty

Lesson Focus: y as a vowel, open syllables, suffixes (y, ly, ty)

Wilson Unit Eight: world, answer, different, any, many, how, now, down, safety, bravely, harm, forbid

Lesson Focus: r-controlled syllables, ar and or

Wilson Unit Nine: picture, learn, earth, father, brother, mother, out, our, friend, another, verb, squirm

Lesson Focus: er, ir, ur, dictionary skills

Wilson Unit Ten: none, nothing, great, country, away, America, school, thought, month, people, drain, sway

Lesson Focus: double vowel syllable, long a sounds (ai, ay), homophones

Wilson Unit Eleven: whose, won, son, breakfast, head, ready, Mr., Mrs., little, been, heal, speech

Lesson Focus: long e sounds (ey, ee, ea)

Wilson Unit Twelve: favorite, early, ocean, own, word, work, write, being, want, their, first, new

Lesson Focus: /oi/ sound (oi, oy)

Wilson Unit Thirteen: Monday, Tuesday, cousin, lose, tomorrow, beautiful, because, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, coach, flow

Lesson Focus: long o sounds (oa, oe, ow), suffix endings review

Wilson Unit Fourteen: bought, brought, piece, January, February, December, July, enough, special, noun, tower, compound

Lesson Focus: /ou/ sound (ou, ow)

Wilson Unit Fifteen: no spelling words

Lesson Focus: /u/ sound (oo, ou, ue, ew)

Wilson Unit Sixteen: no spelling words

Lesson Focus: sounds of au and aw

Wilson Unit Seventeen: no spelling words

Lesson Focus: syllable type -le, review of all 6 syllable types

Math:

Every night there will be 3-6 questions from our math journal to complete (usually the odd numbers). Please work for no longer than 15 minutes to complete the problems. The activity will always go with a lesson we did in class that day or learned previously.

When finished, rip out the homework, and place it in your child's folder. I review all assignments and will go over any incorrect answers with students.

Place a large circle around any problems that your child had difficulty with, and we will review them in class the next day. If I am noticing that a student usually struggles with the math homework, I may assign an alternate assignment to complete instead.

Math tests occur three days after the last lesson in the chapter. (For example, chapter 8 has 8 lessons. After the last lesson (8-8, we will spend a day taking a practice test, then a day reviewing, and then test on the third day).

If your child has a different teacher for math, he or she will receive homework directly from that teacher and does not need to complete my assignment.

How Was School Today?

Consider asking your child the following questions as alternatives to the regular "how was school today?":

1. What was the best thing that happened at school today?

2. Tell me something that made you laugh.

3. If you could choose who you would like to sit by in class, who would you pick?

4. Where is the coolest place at the school?

5. Tell me a weird word you heard today?

6. If I called your teacher tonight, what would she tell me about you?

7. How did you help someone today?

8. Tell me one thing that you learned today.

9. How did someone help you today?

10. When were you the happiest today?

11. When were you bored today?

12. If an alien spaceship came to your class and beamed up someone, who would you want them to take?

13. Who would you like to play with at recess that you have never played with before?

14. Tell me something good that happened today.

15. What word did your teacher say most today?

16. What do you think you should do/learn more of at school?

17. What do you think you should do/learn less of at school?

18. Who in your class do you think you could be nicer to?

19. Where do you play the most at recess?

20. Who is the funniest person in your class?

21. What was your favorite part of lunch?

22. If you got to be the teacher tomorrow, what would you do?

23. Who do you think deserves the trophy the most in your class?

24. If you could switch seats with anyone in the class, who would you trade with?

25. Tell me about three different times you used your pencil today at school?