Monday, February 9th, 2015

Today in the second grade, we:

• learned more about cheerfulness during assembly
• took our weekly spelling quiz and took turns sharing news during language and spelling class
• started our new unit on geometry and located a variety of 3D shapes around the classroom in math class
• separated base words from their plural forms in reading and phonics class
• reviewed for our unit 3 quiz in social studies class 

Tonight's homework:

Complete the green worksheet on decoding (looking for the meaning of words.)

Our next spelling quiz will be on Tuesday, February 24th. The words selected will be all of the words that the students have had so far in quarter three:

1. hurricane
2. damage
3. bend
4. flash
5. pounding
6. prevent
7. reach
8. equal
9. storm
10. violent
11. thunder
12. heavy
13. destroy
14. beware
15. reproduce
16. life cycle
17. metamorphosis
18. larva
19. pupa
20. tadpole
21. dinosaur
22. fossil
23. extinct
24. butterfly
25. mighty
26. kitten
27. monarch
28. Earth
29. tens
30. value
31. ones
32. digit
33. place
34. greater than
35. less than
36. equal to
37. patterns
38. odd numbers
39. even numbers
40. hundred chart
41. geography
42. American
43. homebodies
44. different
45. fairyland
46. castle
47. serene
48. breath
49. freedom
50. bark
51. ocean
52. desert
53. blooming
54. shovels
55. scent
56. tough
57. vegetables
58. wrinkled
59. plain
60. muscles
61. nodded
62. neighbors

The students will not be required to write each word five times for their homework, but rather to write me a short story (10-15 sentences) using at least 15 of the spelling words above.

*Special Notes:

• There will be a social studies quiz this Wednesday (unit 3.)

• We have earned 10 "Good Day Monsters," so we will have a party tomorrow! The students are welcome to bring treats and/or games to play with. I will order pizza for lunch. I am proud of how hard the grade two students work everyday to become their best selves.