What's Happening in Mrs. CK's class
Reminders
No new books or spelling words since we only have 2 days of school next week. There's a letter in the Friday folder about activities for next week. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!
Look at what we're learning!
Reading
- main idea drawing conclusions
- details paraphrasing
- predicting alliteration
- cause/effect onomatopoeia
- compare/contrast figurative language
- steps in a process
- plot
- theme
- setting
**Please read 15-20 minutes every day and sign your child's reading log and fluency log.This will greatly improve your child's fluency and comprehension skills. Read Bremen Town Musicians Monday evening. Read G.R. book Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. No homework over the weekend.
Writing
- topic
- details
- paragraphs
- simple sentences
- punctuation (capital at the beginning of the sentence and an ending punctuation mark).
- organization
- editing, editing, editing!!!!!!! This is a BIG second grade standard we have to master!
Grammar
- nouns/plural nouns
- verbs/past tense verbs
- capitalizing place names
- periods
- compound words
- contractions
- adjectives
- homophones
- pronouns
- synonyms
- antonyms
- quotation marks
Spelling
about, found, house, outside, how, wanted, kicked, every, are, and, there, those, off, jump, gym, best, float, don't, bug, their, eating, green, here, people, really, beautiful, rain, mail, played, skate, favorite, or, more, right, school, before, joke, phone, use, made, city, were, went, knew, have, crash, children, line, make, name, nice, ride, slow, snap, small, sports, stop, shook, trip, than, thank, they, write, writing
New words will be added using the "chunks" of words; for example: crash - smash, trash, mash, etc.
Math
We'll be working on estimation, double digit addition and subtraction with and without regrouping.
Social Studies
We'll be focusing on the first Americans.
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