Information for the week of March 30, 2020

Second Grade Packet

Mrs. Leisa’s Class

Week of March 30, 2020

Please work on your packet each day this week. I have included some extra activities that are good practice but not graded.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by phone or text at (334) 695-2403 or email at lbeam@lakesidechiefs.com.

Reading

I have set up a classroom account on getepic.com to provide an assortment of books for home reading.  You will go to www.getepic.com/students and our class code is nii4531. Please let me know if you have trouble logging in and I will try to help you troubleshoot it.

I am sending home the reading workbook for use while we are out of school.  Please do not tear the pages out and please do not work ahead as we will need these when we return to school.

Monday – Read “The Green Grass Grew All Around” in your Open Court textbook and discuss the questions on p. 122 with your parent.  Complete workbook pages 67-68 to sort your spelling words by spelling pattern.  Read for 20 minutes using books you have at home or books on getepic.com. Complete one activity on your ELA choice board and one activity on your word work choice board.

Tuesday – Reread “The Green Grass Grew All Around” and begin to answer the questions on the study guide.  Complete workbook pages 57-58 to review the /oo/ sound.  Read for 20 minutes using books you have at home or books on getepic.com. Complete one activity on your ELA choice board and one activity on your word work choice board.

Wednesday – Complete the study guide that you started on Tuesday.  Read “Strongest in the Forest” on p. 124 in your Open Court textbook. Pay close attention to the vocabulary words in this selection.  Complete workbook pages 61-62 to practice vocabulary. Read for 20 minutes using books you have at home or books on getepic.com. Complete one activity on your ELA choice board and one activity on your word work choice board.

Thursday – Complete workbook pages 59-60 to practice the prefixes pre- and mis- and workbook pages 63-64 to practice cause and effect.  Read for 20 minutes using books you have at home or books on getepic.com. Complete one activity on your ELA choice board and one activity on your word work choice board.

Math

Monday – Saxon math lesson 105: subtraction facts and review of skills.  Complete side A with help from an adult and complete side B on your own.  Pick one activity from your math choice board.

Tuesday - Saxon math lesson 106: telling and showing time to the minute.  Complete side A with help from an adult and complete side B on your own.  Pick one activity from your math choice board.

Wednesday - Saxon math lesson 107: counting quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies (Remember that when the page says to show the amount two ways you should write it once with a dollar sign and once with a cent sign).  Complete side A with help from an adult and complete side B on your own.  Pick one activity from your math choice board.

Thursday - Saxon math lesson 108: identifying parallel lines and line segments.  Complete side A with help from an adult and complete side B on your own.  Pick one activity from your math choice board.

Social Science

Go to the website below -

https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-1-2.html?promo_code=6294&magazineName=classroommagazines

Username – Learning20                  Password – Clifford

Complete one activity each day on the scholastic site above.  You also have a social 

science choice board of activities.  If you are having trouble with internet access or using the website listed above, please let me know.

Spelling words

clue

blew

tube

misread

preheat

student

grew

precut

mislead

June

March 9, 2020

Hello families,

We have some upcoming dates that you will want to add to your calendars.  March 11 is the due date for our field trip money.  The cost is $25 for students and $23 for parents.  Our trip is March 18.  Please remember to send a lunch and a snack.  It will be so much fun! 

Spring pictures have been rescheduled for March 12.  If your student is using this as the yearbook photo he / she needs to wear a uniform for the picture.  If it is not for the yearbook, a uniform is not required.  If you have any questions or concerns please let me know by email, phone, or text.

Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. Leisa

March 2, 2020

On March 2-6^th, we will be celebrating Read Across America Week.  I have planned a lot of fun activities that will go along with the days Mrs. Shoemaker has planned for us!  We will not do a story in our reading book, but I have other books to read aloud this week to emphasize reading and to use a map of the United States of America to show where these stories take place!! So, we will really be “reading across America.”  I will need your help. if you are willing to provide some of the snacks, please let me know.

Monday_”The Lorax” and “Daisy-Head Mayzie” Day -  I have cupcakes ordered for Dr. Seuss’ birthday for snack!

Tuesday “The Cat in the Hat” Day—We will wear or you can make a Cat in the Hat hat. We have a guest reader coming.  If I could get a couple of parents to send vanilla ice cream, red and blue sprinkles, cups/bowls, and spoons………that would be great!

Wednesday “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” Day—Everyone wears red or blue or anything patriotic to celebrate our freedom to read what we choose. Bring a pillow and/or blanket, because we are having a read-a-thon!! If I could get a couple of parents to send some bags of colored goldfish and a capri sun for snack, that would be awesome!! Students do not have to dress in uniforms Wednesday.

Thursday “Green Eggs and Ham” Day—We are stuck on this old classic and each child will need a pair of sunglasses as we plan to make a video of this book with our talented fluent reading class! Can’t wait for this!!

Friday “Fox in Socks” Day---wear your crazy socks or mixed colors of socks!! We will have guest readers and plan to use our remaining time to read, read, read!! I have ordered some Read Across America cookies to help us celebrate today!!

So just to recap, no reading story this week, so no reading test or spelling test.  We will use this week to work on word attack skills such as strategies of what to do when we come to words we don’t know. (apply phonics rules, look at prefixes or suffixes, small words with the word, chunking, etc.) We will also be listening to read alouds of stories from different areas in the United States of America and marking them on a map to show where they happened. Students will need to be in uniforms Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday but can dress up on Wednesday and Friday. We will have a grammar test on Friday on pronouns!! Also, we will have math as usual! 😊 If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to let me know!

**If you can help with the snacks on Tuesday or Wednesday, please let me know!!

Thank you for your support!! It will be such a fun week to learn and enjoy reading!

                                                                                                                                Mrs. Leisa