2nd Grade

9/19-Progress Reports

Week of 10/1-Grammar Common Assessment (nouns and sentence types)

Week of 10/8-Sight Word Assessment 2

**These dates are subject to change, please look for further communication from your child's teacher**

Homework goes home on a weekly rotation.

Monday: Math

Tuesday: Reading

Wednesday: Word Study

Thursday: Writing/ Social Studies/ Science

Friday: Read a good book

Behavior is communicated in planner. Please check daily!

-Glow Notes

-Grow Notes

Ms. Todd, Mrs. Archer, Mrs. Ramos, Ms. Doehring, Ms. Smith

We have been working with several decoding strategies of how to tackle unknown words. Some of the strategies are pictured below in our class anchor charts and posters.

Conversation Challenge: Ask your student to tell you two things they can do to tackle a tricky word in their reading!

We are working on sight words for grading period one. Below are all the sight words for the first grading period.

Katy ISD Sight Word Assessment 2 will be the week of October 8th

In writing we have been studying closely and combing through mentor texts to find examples of authors using craft moves. In class we have been comparing these craft moves to popular dance moves.

Some of the craft moves we are noticing are:

Illustrations, Imagery, Onomatopoeia, Similes, Metaphors, Ellipses, Small moments, Repetition, Word Choice, Print Types (italics, bold, capitalization) and Show don't tell.

Noticing these craft moves by authors will then lead into your child trying out a few on their own.

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This unit will conclude on September 28th. We will then move on to our Nonfiction writing unit.

We are currently studying th/ch/sh/ck words

Phonics Rule: (-th)

The letters –th make one sound.

Phonics Rule (-ch)

The letters –ch make one sound.

**-th, -ch and –sh can occur in the initial, medial and final positions of words**

Phonics Rule (-sh)

The letters –sh make one sound.

**-th, -ch and –sh can occur in the initial, medial and final positions of words**

Phonics Rule (-ck)

The letters –ck make one sound.

Use “-ck_ for /k/ at the end of a one-syllable word after one short vowel (e.g. back, deck, sick, cluck)

**-th ,–ch, -sh and -ck are called digraphs.

Our Word Study Assessment will be the week of September 28th

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The next pattern we will study is the common i pattern (long I)

We have been studying nouns in second grade.

Singluar noun- only one person, place or thing

Plural noun- more than one person, more than one place, or more than one thing

Common noun- a unspecified person, place or thing (has no name)

Proper noun- a specific person, place, or thing (has a name)

Grammar Cumulative Common Assessment will be the week of October 1st.

In math we are practicing composing and decomposing numbers to 199. We use standard, word, and expanded form to represent numbers. We have been using place value to help us determine numbers that are 10 more and 10 less.

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The week of September 17th we will be comparing numbers up to 199 and locating numbers on number lines.

We will be practicing using mental strategies for addition and subtraction.

We are wrapping up our unit study on Body Systems. We have learned about the circulatory system, nervous system, and respiratory system.

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We are going to be classifying matter and comparing changes in materials caused by heating and cooling.

In social studies we have been studying the three types of communities: urban, suburban, and rural. We have created fordable diving deep into the housing, transportation, and pets in each community. Students have identified the characteristics of each community and how they affect communities and settlement patterns.

The video below is a great resource to review the three communities with your student.

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We will move on to discussing timeline of events and maps