March

March is reading month at McBain.  Our theme is Camp Read S'more!  We will be doing a lot of exciting activities related to camping and reading!

Spelling Words (words with long e):

we                  bee
need               queen
mean              leaf
thief               chief
pony               keys
grow              toe
after               every
special

High-Frequency words (the students should recognize and read these words quickly):
after             before               every
few              first                   hear
hurt              old                    special
would

Second Grade News

February 19-29

Sight Words:  By the end of the week your child should be able read these quickly and easily.  Please post this letter in a handy spot (on the fridge, etc.) and have your child practice reading through these words a couple of times each day.

        

         better

         group     

         long

         more

         only

         our

         started

         three

         who

         won’t

Spelling Words:  The spelling test will be on Monday, February 29 (Mrs. V's class: test on March 1).

         told

         most

         float

         coat

         toast

         grow

         mow

         show

         Joe

         toe

         light

         mind

        only

        our

         who

Vocabulary:  Please use these words in conversation with your child as we are learning their meaning.

         across

         borrow

         countryside

         idea

         insists

         lonely

         solution

         villages

Spelling words for unit 3, week 2 (skill:  long i spellings)

1.  light                  8.  dry
2.  sight                  9.  try
3.  mind                10.  lie
4.  cry                   11.  hay
5.  tie                    12.  steak
6.  high                 13.  begin
7.  wild                 14.  those
                             15.  apart


High-frequency words:
(your child should be able to read these words quickly and easily- not sound them out)

also,  apart,  begin,  either,  hundred,  over
places,  those,  which, without

Vocabulary words:
Please use the following words in meaningful conversation with your child:

adventure                        delighted
dreamed                          enjoyed
grumbled                        moonlight
neighbor                         nighttime

Spelling Words -Test on Friday, January 22

1.  nail
2. train
3. main
4. hay
5. stay
6. day
7. tray
8. chain
9. they
10. eight
11. good
12. scrape
13. often
14. two
15. strange

Second Grade News

January 13-22

Reading: Our reading genre is expository (informational) text.  We will be learning about how the Earth’s forces of magnetism and gravity affect us.

 Sight Words:  By the end of the week your child should be able read these quickly and easily.  Please post this letter in a handy spot (on the fridge, etc.) and have your child practice reading through these words a couple of times each day.

around

about

two

world

second

part

often

idea

great

good

Spelling Words:  The spelling test will be on Friday, January 22

nail

train

main

hay

stay

day

tray

chain

eight

they

scrape

strange

good

often

two

Vocabulary:  Please use these words in conversation with your child as we are learning their meaning.

trace

force

objects

proved

weight

amazing

measure

speed

Reminder:  School dismisses at 11:55 on January 21 and 22.  Lunch will not be served on these days.  Please send a healthy snack or small lunch for your child as we will take a few minutes to eat before we dismiss on those days.

Second Grade News

January 4-12

I hope you and your family had a blessed holiday season.  It is good to be back to school with the second graders. 

Reading: This week our reading genre is poetry, and we will be reading rhyming poems about animals.  We will learn that a rhyming poem has rhyming words, and the lines in a rhyming poem have a rhythm and beats.  Poems also express the thoughts and feelings of the poet.  As we read poems, we will look for details to explain what each poet loves about the animal in the poem.

 Sight Words:  By the end of the week your child should be able read these quickly and easily.  Please post this letter in a handy spot (on the fridge, etc.) and have your child practice reading through these words a couple of times each day.

bird

far

field

flower

grow

leaves

light

orange

ready

until

Spelling Words:  The spelling test will be on Tuesday, January 12

scratch

scrape

spring

throne

stripe

strange

shred

shrub

splash

split

catch

sting

far

flower

until

Vocabulary:  Please use these words in conversation with your child as we are learning their meaning.

behave

flapping

express

feather

poem

rhyme

rhythm

word choice

Math:  We will be learning how to use rulers to measure in feet, inches, and centimeters.  You may want to get out a ruler and have fun measuring objects around your home.  We will also review telling time on an analog clock.  So, please get out a clock and help your child practice.

Social Studies:  We are beginning a unit on communities.  These are some of the key concepts we will be studying:

*A community is a place where people, live, work, and play together.

*Communities have buildings, businesses, transportation, natural characteristics, and places to have fun.

*Communities have ways to keep people safe-police officers, fire fighters, and ambulances.

*There are three types of communities-urban, suburban, and rural.

Reminders:

*We have a new January reading calendar in our book pockets.  Please read with your child for a few minutes every day.  It makes a huge difference, and I am seeing big reading gains in the students who do this daily. 

*Please make sure your child is dressed for outdoor play at recess-snow pants, boots, hat, mittens, etc.

*Please have your child keep an extra pair of socks and mittens in his/her backpack.  This way your child can change into a dry pair of socks or mittens if one pair gets wet.

*Shoes, shoes, shoes!  Now that we are wearing boots, it is necessary that your child has shoes to wear in class.  Please make sure they are packed in the backpack, or your child may keep an extra pair of shoes in his/her locker.

December News:

Spelling words for December 9 are:

trace      place     badge
cage      space     ice
bulge     range     barge
mice     mule     huge
out        wash     saw

Our phonic skill is soft c and g.

The sight words for this week are:

straight     sky     out     buy

under     saw     pull     wash

food     almost

Math:  The students will be working on telling time to the half-hour and nearest 5-minutes.