Week of October 28th

Important Dates:

October 30th-Spirit Wear

November 1st-8th-Book Fair/Candy Collection

November 5th-No School/Election Day

November 7th-Harvest Lunch for 2nd grade

November 11th-Veterans Day Event

November 11th-15th-Canned Food Drive

Grammar: We will be learning about pronouns. A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun in a sentence. Common pronouns are he, she, you, me, I, we, us, this, them, that.

Phonics: This week we will learn about y as a vowel. At the end of a word y either says i or e. In a one syllable word it says i like my, dry. Y says e at the end of a two syllable word like happy, candy. Red words for the week are: could, would, should, many. Please practice red words at home. Red words do not follow learned patterns or rules. Therefore it is important to memorize how to spell them. We do not sound these words out. We identify them by letter names. Example: was w-a-s not /w/ /u/ /z/. Practice at home writing the words in fun ways, tracing them, or even jumping them out.

*Phonics assessments are on Thursday. New phonics rule introduced Friday.

Reading: We will nonfiction text features. Nonfiction Text Features are the features that help a reader to navigate a Nonfiction Text more easily. Examples of Nonfiction Text Features include…Table of Contents, Headings, Bold Words, Captions, Photographs, Graphs, Charts, Illustrations, Glossary, and Index.

Writing: The students will work on informational writing this 9 weeks. Informational writing is a type of nonfiction writing that conveys information about something, which means it is factual. Many examples of informational writing can be found in newspapers, almanacs, and reference books. ... Informational text is often organized so the reader can easily and quickly find information.

Math: We will focus on 2-digit subtraction. We will learn different strategies to subtract 2-digit numbers. We will be using base ten blocks, partial sums, chunking, and decomposing/expanding form.

*Timed addition and subtraction test are normally given on Wednesdays.

Social Studies: This week will be learning about James Oglethorpe. He was the founder of the colony of Georgia.