Welcome to Second Grade

Room 218

 

Work hard, do your best! Achieve your dreams  at QES!

 

Our Schedule Is As Follows:

 

 

Vocabulary for Unit 1:

Ann's First Day:

carrots, homework, lucky, crawls, hurry, shy

 

Henry and Mudge:

different, parents, weighed, searched, worry, hundred

Luka's Quilt:

grandmother, answered, garden, remember, serious, idea

Roundup At Rio Ranch:

gently, safety, broken, carefully, cattle, fence

Welcome to the New Museum:

artist, body, famous, hour, life, visit

 

Phonics:

-short vowels: a, e, i, o, u

-long vowels: a, e, i, o, u

 

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Comprehension:

-making predictions

-story elements: setting, characters, plot, problem, solution

Study Skills:

-graphic aids: parts of a book

                       table of contents

-reading a glossary

-using an index

-using the Internet

Vocabulary:

-context clues

-inflectional endings: e, es, ed, ing

                                                

 

Vocabulary for Unit 2:

Lemonade for Sale: 

announced, melted, squeezed,empty, poured, wrong

A Letter for Amy:

candles, glanced, special, corner, repeated, wild

Best Friends Club:

allowed, president, rules, leaned, promise, whispered

Jamaica Tag-Along:

building, edge, giant, busy, form, repair

Sharks:

afraid, danger, trouble, chew, lesson, understand

Phonics:

-oo, ue, ew, vowel sounds

-ou, oi, ou, ow sounds

-ar, are, er, ear,ir, or, ore, ur : r-controlled vowel sounds

 

Vocabulary:

-prefixes

-context clues

-compound words

 

Comprehension:

-problem and solution

-making inferences

-main idea

Study Skills:

-graphic aids:  reading and using a graph

                       using a diagram

                       reading and identifying parts of a diagram

 

                                                     

 

Spelling Units:

Unit 1: words with short a

Unit 2:  words with short e

Unit 3:  words with short i

Unit 4:  words with short o

Unit 5:  words with short u

Unit 6:  review units 1-5

Unit 7:  words with th and wh

Unit 8:  words with ch and sh

Unit 9:  words with wh, kn, wr

Unit 10: words with consonant "l" blends

Unit 11: words with consonant "r" blends

Unit 12: review units 7-11

 

Math Concepts:

Chapter 1:  Numbers and Graphing

Count and compare numbers

Use more, fewer, least, most, equal

Count by 2s, 5s,10s increasing sequences, counting backwards

Reading charts

Problem Solving: look for pattern

Bar graphs

Histograms

Create and analyze pictographs

Tally marks

Collect and solve data

 

Chapter 2:  Addition and Subtraction

Explore addition stories

Join groups to add

Count on and add zero

Turnaround facts: 2+4=6  4+2=6

Ways to make numbers

Problem Solving: writing number sentences

Separate groups to subtract

Count back to zero

Explore and find how many more

Relate addition and subtraction

Compare and contrast

Choose an operation

Explore doubles

Use doubles plus one

Explore middle doubles

Explore with magic 9

Make a list

Use doubles to subtract

Use addition facts to subtract

 

Chapter 3: Addition  and Subtraction

Subtraction strategies

Graphic aids:  bar graphs

Problem solving:  group decision making