Ms. Angeron's 2nd Grade Class

Ms. Angeron's Overview

February 13^th– February 17^th  2012

February 14^th– Valentine’s DayThe students can exchangeValentines with their classmates. There are 21 students in the classroom. This is optional.

February 16th – Book Report Mobile Due Date– We are almost finishedwith the “at school work,” and will probably start on making the characters. Iwill send it home on Monday for completion at home for Thursday.

February 16^th– Mardi Gras Ball 2^ndGrade – 2:00

February 17^th– Orpheus ParadeNo After School Childcare

February 20^th– 24^thMardiGras Break

February 27^th– Return to School

Homework–Leveled Readers and theStory or Paragraph per week will start this week again. It willbe started on Monday, worked on during the week almost daily, and finished a thome. There will be MINI - HOMEWORK PACKETS this week because a Book Report Mobile is due..

READING

Wewill continue with the same story as last week. I will also try to incorporatemore AR reading this week while working on the skills in this story.

Unit5 – Story 1 Dig, Wait, Listen: A DesertToad’s Tale

Vocabulary:beyond, burrow, distant, lengthy,ranger’s, warning

Thestudents will always be reading books, reading AR books, and taking AR tests.

ORALREADING -Inch and Miles,Animalia(ongoing), Wizard of Oz

WEBSITES-   Reading vocabulary online activityis completed in class. You will see a completed form which indicates they havecompleted this activity.

ENGLISH

TEST– Thursday on story selection

Unit5 – Story 1 Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad’sTale

Grammar Practice–Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Pronouns; Daily Language pages

TheEnglish textbook from last year has fabulous extra practice grammar and writingactivities. The students can take these home, but please make sure they returnthem the very next day as we will use them in class.

WRITING– STORY OF THE WEEK

·      As you know, this isnot a published work piece. It could turn into that if it is chosen. Thepurpose of this is to get the students to write independently.

·      The focus this week willbe on a realistic fiction story. We will continue working on similes andmetaphors as well as vivid verbs and exciting nouns. The students are learningto use a thesaurus looking for synonyms for nouns.

MorningPages – free writing journal (the 3 C's-Calm down, Clear mind and focus, and Complete goals for the day)

WEBSITES– Online activity in Language Arts

TEST-Thursday on skills covered class work evaluations throughout the week on skillscovered.

SPELLING   

Nonew words and no test this week.

MATH– Chapter 7 (cont.)Chapter8 Time, Data, Graphs

Thestudents are continuing to work in the Practice and ILEAP Math workbooks andSpiral Review Test/Prep Activities Other activities: Groundworks- reasoningskills and algebra, Internet websites, Destination Success

TEST– Chapter 7 – Wednesday

Classworkevaluations throughout the week on skills covered

SCIENCEUnitC–Chapter 1- Lessons 1-2

Workbook pages will be completed inclass

SOCIAL STUDIESUnit 3

Workbook pages and study guide will becompleted in class related to this unit.

Test - Wednesday