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Mrs. Williams' Wonder Kids |
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 Wonder Kids' WeekReading:
The Power Readers will be reading the story, Dig For the Old, which is about hunting for fossils. We will be visiting the library again this week to choose more "good fit" books to read and report on in our Book Chats. We are also working on rewriting our parent interviews as a biography. Thanks for all your support by helping your child on short vowels at home! Your child will receive a Reading Log form each week. Please record all minutes read during the week (whether you read to your child or they read to you) and turn Reading Logs in each Friday. Reading Logs are graded and are an important part of our reading program.
Spelling: Spelling pattern words for the week will be Vowel Varients: -all (small), -al (talk), -ough thought Sight Words are: Spelling test will be on Friday! We will continuing with our dictionary skills by looking up each word for the week in the dictionary. A letter can be found in the front pocket of the folder explaining the procedure. Each night will be a different activity. On Wednesday night, your child will use the spelling words to write a creative story and special paper for this activity is also found in the folder pocket. You will need an inexpensive, kid-friendly dictionary for Spelling. Please purchase one as soon as possible. If you have any difficulty, please let me know so I can help you. Please note that Wonder Kids need to do spelling homework for four nights (Monday-Thursday). Our formal Spelling program has spelling patterns taken from our Storytown basal reading series. Each week we will focus on a different spelling pattern/s. What's different about our spelling program is that we believe that students who know how to spell "ran" can also spell Dan, fan, can, plan, etc. Each week your child will receive approximately 6 new words (spelling pattern words AND sight words) to learn to spell. Students will copy these words into their homework planners and they will be your target words to study all week. Tests will be every Friday. Tests will consist of 10 words based on the Spelling Pattern Words as well as the Sight Words for the week. A sentence consisting of Spelling Pattern Words, Sight Words, and words your child should already know how to spell will be dictated for students to write and punctuate. See the section on Spelling Words for more details about this week's words. Language Arts: This week's Grammar will be a look at verb forms (have, has, had). We are completing our focus on business letters and will be working on writing and revising Bulldog Books. The Wonder Kids will also be writing poetry. Math: This week in Math the Wonder Kids will be ending Chapter 10 on Numbers to 1,000 with our test on Wednesday. Place value is a major component to this chapter, so please continue to help your child at home with this. Than we'll head into addition and subtraction of 3-digit numbers. Addition and subtraction are the foundation of math in the second grade. Before students progress to third grade, they MUST BE FLUENT in addition and subtraction math facts. The 3rd Grade teachers want students to be able to know any given addition or subtraction fact in 2 SECONDS!!! It is important that we work together between school and home to ensure that all second graders are able to work with addition and subtraction facts easily and quickly. I have been noticing a definite improvement in most of the students' abilities to work + and - problems more quickly and accurately! Thanks for your help and KEEP UP THE GREAT EFFORT!! Social Studies: The Wonder Kids are winding up a week-long visit from Junior Achievement business leader Cheryl Williams from SWEPCO. Mrs. Williams has talked to us about work people do in the community, about unit and assembly line production, and about goods and services. We have been happy to have her knowledge as a community resource. This week our information about the upcoming Economics project and sale will be coming home. Your child will also be conducting an interview of you to gain insight into the type of work you do. Please help him/her by answering the questions on the form as well as those written by your child. |
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