Sunday, January 31, 2010

February 01-05, 2010


Spelling Words for the Week

Group 1: Words with soft /g/ sound

rage, cage, age, angel, magic, orange, gentle, germ, stage, giant

Group 2: Words with soft/g/ sound

engine, dungeon, gesture, giraffe, genius, general, geology, legend, oxygen, genuine

Group 3: Double letter words

acceptance, dilemma, embarrass, commotion, necessity, recommend, immediate, tyranny, vaccinate, occasion

Reading Selection: One Dark Night
Reading Skills and Strategies: Sequence Events, Predicting Outcomes, Drawing Conclusion, Recalling Details, and Summarizing

Homework: Tuesday: Activity Sheet 64
Wednesday: Activity 65
Thursday: Activity 66

Math: Multi-Digit addition and subtraction with regrouping, Telling Time
Homework: Number and Word problems with multi-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping, Problems on Telling Time

Friday, January 22, 2010

Week of January 25-29, 2010

Spelling Words

Group 1: Vowel Patterns for /U/

blue, flew, grew, juice, suit, stew, chew, drew, clue, recruit

Group 2: Words with - ure and -er

fracture, mixture, texture, stretcher, injure, pasture, teacher, failure, researcher, procedure

Group 3: Diphthongs in Two and Three Syllables

embroider, boycott, turquoise, rejoice, voyage, scoundrel, prowler, employee, grouchy, boundary

Reading: Selection: Continuation of the Helen Keller story and Fire Fighter

Homework: Monday: Activity sheet # 55
Tuesday: Activity sheet # 56
Wednesday: Activity sheet # 57
Thursday: Activity sheet # 58

Skills and Strategies to be learned:

Following Directions, Fact and Opinion, Cause and Effect, Main Idea and details

Math : Multi-Digit Addition with regrouping
Solving word problems with Addition

Homework: Monday: Homework : RW# 40
Tuesday: Homework: RW # 47
Wednesday: Homework: RW # 50
Thursday: Homework: RW # 51

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Week of January 20-22, 2010

ANNOUNCEMENT:

WHAT: STUDENT LED CONFERENCES
WHO: PARENTS/GUARDIANS AND STUDENTS
WHEN: THURSDAY and FRIDAY( January 21-22) 4:00pm-5:30pm (Choose one that works for you)
WHERE: MR. B'S SECOND GRADE CLASS




Spelling:

Because this week is a short week for students, there will be just one set of spelling words for the whole class. And they will not be given a test on it on Friday, however they still need to study and learn each one of them.

speaker, prize, award, preacher, speech, dream, holiday, birthday, federal, liberation


Reading:
This week, we will read the selection Helen Keller and the Big Storm .
Reading Skills and Strategies to be discussed:
Cause and Effect, Drawing Conclusion, Fact and Opinion, Multiple Meanings of words.

Homework: Wednesday: Activity sheet # 43
Thursday: Activity sheet #44

Math:
This week ,we will be discussing how to add multi-digit numbers with regrouping. We will also try to solve word problems with multi-digit addition with regrouping.

Homework: Worksheets with multi-digit addition with regrouping.

Social Studies:
This week, we will finishing up discussing the unit Community and as part of our Social Studies lesson for this week, we will have a discussion about the catastrophe that happened in HAITI, we will talk about how did it impact the people there and how the people around the world responded to it.