November 18, 2016

                                                                        Friday, November 18, 2016

Dear Second Grade Families,

            It was nice to meet everyone and speak with you at conferences.  Please keep in mind that if you ever have any questions or concerns about your child’s progress or about anything happening at school or in the classroom, you can contact me through email, phone call, or a note sent in with your child. It has been a great start to the new second grade classroom, and I am enjoying working with each and every student. They are a great group of kids!

            Please check out my blog under “Elementary Teacher Pages” on the school website. You can email me from that page. Anytime you email me, I will always email you back even if it is just to say that I got the email. Occasionally the emails don’t come through. If you don’t hear back from me, I didn’t get the email. Also, please sign up on the right side of the page to “follow my blog by email.” That way you will get an email every time I update the blog.

            Attached you will find information for our new Language Arts unit that we are beginning on Monday. I am planning on sending this type of information home every time we start a new unit. The units generally last between one and two weeks.

            Please let me know if you have any questions!

                                          Mrs. Kathy Green

Second Grade News:  November 18-December 1, 2016

Here is a peek at the upcoming two weeks.

Reading:  Our genre is narrative non-fiction. This type of text is written in story form, but gives true information about a topic. We will be reading a variety of narrative non-fiction texts about animal habitats.

Spelling:  Words with soft c and soft g. Our next spelling test will be on Thursday, December 1.

trace                 place                 badge                cage                  

space                ice                      bulge                 range

barge                 mice                 mule                  huge                 

out                     wash                 saw

High Frequency Words (sight words):  By the end of the unit, your child should be able to read these words quickly and easily. Please post this letter in a handy spot (on the fridge, etc.) and have your child practice reading through these words a couple of times each day.

almost          buy          food              out                     pull

saw                 sky          straight            under       wash 

Vocabulary: We are learning the meaning of these words. Please use these words in conversation with your child and ask him/her to tell you what they mean.

buried          escape          habitat          journey         

nature          peeks           restless          spies

Math: We continue to work on subtraction facts with differences up to 18. This is a great time to get out the flashcards and help your child review at home. We have also learned several subtraction games that could easily be played at home with a regular deck of cards with the face cards removed. Two good ones are Subtraction Top-It and Salute.