Saturday, April 20, 2024

Homework for week 4/22 - 4/26/2024

 Our Journeys story of the week is “The Mysterious Tadpole.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (contractions) for lesson 26 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, April 26th.

The test over chapter 7 (place value to 1000) in Sadlier Math will be on Friday, April 26th. Chapter review will come home Thursday afternoon, if you’d like to review with your child before the test.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, April 22nd. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school 4/22.

Spelling Words

  1. root
  2. crew
  3. spoon
  4. few
  5. bloom
  6. grew
  7. room
  8. you
  9. stew
  10. boost
  11. scoop
  12. flew
  13. zoo
  14. noon
  15. shampoo
  16. balloon

High Frequency Words 

  1. again
  2. ago
  3. alone
  4. don’t
  5. every
  6. follow
  7. goes
  8. head
  9. now
  10. won’t

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Homework for week 4/8 - 4/12/2024

Our Journeys story of the week is “From Seed to Plant.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill for lesson 25 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, April 12th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, April 8th. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school 4/8.

Spelling Words

  1. tall
  2. saw
  3. dog
  4. draw
  5. call
  6. fall
  7. soft
  8. paw
  9. ball
  10. yawn
  11. log
  12. small
  13. all
  14. walk
  15. awful
  16. wallpaper

High Frequency Words 

  1. ball
  2. done
  3. hear
  4. learn
  5. leaves
  6. only
  7. our
  8. through
  9. we’re
  10. young

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Homework for weeks 3/25 - 3/27 and 4/2 - 4/5

Our Journeys story of the week is “Half-Chicken.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Our spelling words are base words plus suffixes un- and re-. We also have 2 review words. The additional phonics skill for this lesson is silent consonants in words. 

Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (irregular action verbs) for lesson 24 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, April 5th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, March 25th. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school 3/25. Because of Easter break, the next RQ testing deadline will be Monday, April 8th.

Spelling Words

  1. unhappy
  2. retell
  3. untangle
  4. unkind
  5. repaint
  6. refill
  7. unlike
  8. remake
  9. unpack
  10. reread
  11. unlock
  12. replay
  13. read
  14. happy
  15. rewrite
  16. overheard

High Frequency Words 

  1. away
  2. brothers
  3. brown
  4. there
  5. surprised
  6. earth
  7. without
  8. here
  9. learning
  10. began

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Homework for week 3/18 - 3/22/2024

Our Journeys story of the week is “The Goat in the Rug.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Our spelling words are base words plus endings -y, -ly, and -ful. We also have 2 review words with endings -ed and -ing. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (irregular verbs) for lesson 23 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 22nd.

ReadnQuiz: Because of the Book Fair, students were unable to check out library books the week before Spring break, so there is no RQ requirement for March 18th. There are several students with overdue library books, so please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school Monday, 3/18, to avoid overdue/replacement fees.

Spelling Words

  1. helpful
  2. sadly
  3. hopeful
  4. thankful
  5. slowly
  6. wishful
  7. kindly
  8. useful
  9. safely
  10. painful
  11. mouthful
  12. weakly
  13. jumped
  14. saying
  15. quickly
  16. wonderful

High Frequency Words 

  1. coming
  2. down
  3. four
  4. give
  5. great
  6. idea
  7. knew
  8. large
  9. though
  10. write

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Homework for week 3/4 - 3/8/2024

 Our Journeys story of the week is “Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Our spelling words are homophones, and correct spelling may be challenging. Please remind your child to pay attention to context clues when figuring out the correct spelling (we’ve been working on this skill in class). Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (more about adjectives) for lesson 22 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 8th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Monday, March 4th. All library books need to be returned by 3/4.

Spelling Words

  1. meet
  2. meat
  3. week
  4. weak
  5. mane
  6. main
  7. tail
  8. tale
  9. be
  10. bee
  11. too
  12. two
  13. sea
  14. see
  15. threw
  16. through

High Frequency Words 

  1. boy
  2. does
  3. everyone
  4. field
  5. floor
  6. found
  7. into
  8. their
  9. toward
  10. what’s 

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Homework for week 2/26 - 3/1/2024

Our Journeys story of the week is “Penguin Chick.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (adjectives) for lesson 21 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 1st.

We’ll be starting Money and Time in Sadlier Math. We’re also taking Cogat tests this week.

ReadnQuiz: There was some confusion over RQ since we didn’t have Library last Monday. Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ test before Monday, February 26th, if he/she didn’t take a test on the RQ book he/she has. All library books need to be returned by 2/26.

Spelling Words

  1. father
  2. over
  3. under
  4. herd
  5. water
  6. verb
  7. paper
  8. cracker
  9. offer
  10. cover
  11. germ
  12. master
  13. fern 
  14. ever
  15. remember
  16. feather
High Frequency Words 
  1. across
  2. behind
  3. house
  4. how
  5. move
  6. nothing
  7. one
  8. out
  9. took
  10. voice

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Homework for week 2/20 - 2/23

Our Journeys story of the week is “Dex: The Heart of a Hero.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (commas in a series) for lesson 20 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, February 23rd.

We’re finishing chapter 6 in Sadlier Math and will have the chapter test on Friday, February 23rd.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ test before Tuesday, February 20th. Since we don’t have Library this week, there is no RQ requirement for the upcoming week.

Spelling Words

  1. horn
  2. story
  3. fork
  4. score
  5. store
  6. corn
  7. morning
  8. shore
  9. short
  10. born
  11. tore
  12. forget
  13. for
  14. more
  15. report
  16. force

High Frequency Words 

  1. begins
  2. being
  3. flower
  4. ground
  5. I’ve
  6. laugh
  7. ready
  8. stood
  9. tall
  10. very

2nd Grade Fun!

 2nd Grade had so much fun celebrating Valentine’s Day with delicious cupcakes, decorating sugar cookies, and fun games. A big thank you to Brooklyn’s mom, Sophie’s mom, and Jacob’s mom for helping us celebrate. 

We also had fun learning about the Super Bowl and graphing who we think would win. Spoiler alert: the majority of 2nd graders guessed correctly (especially those who voted for Taylor Swift’s team!🤣)
















Sunday, February 11, 2024

Homework for week 2/12 - 2/15/2024

 Our Journeys story of the week is “The Signmaker’s Assistant.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (shades of meaning) for lesson 19 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Thursday, February 15th.

Read quiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ test before Monday, February 12th. All library books need to be returned by 2/12.

Spelling Words

  1. car
  2. dark
  3. arm
  4. star
  5. park
  6. yard
  7. party
  8. hard
  9. farm
  10. start
  11. part
  12. spark
  13. art
  14. jar
  15. carpet
  16. apartment

High Frequency Words 

  1. are
  2. baby
  3. didn’t 
  4. good
  5. I’ll 
  6. is
  7. please
  8. sound
  9. talk
  10. too


Sunday, February 4, 2024

Homework for week 2/5 - 2/9

Our Journeys story of the week is “My Name is Gabriela.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (forms of verb “be”) for lesson 18 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, February 9th.

We’ll continue learning about measurement in Sadlier Math.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ test before Monday, February 5th. All library books need to be returned by 2/5.

Spelling Words

  1. happy
  2. pretty
  3. baby
  4. very
  5. puppy
  6. funny
  7. carry
  8. lucky
  9. only
  10. sunny
  11. penny
  12. city
  13. tiny
  14. many
  15. sorry
  16. noisy

High Frequency Words 

  1. always
  2. anything
  3. been
  4. draw
  5. friends
  6. mother
  7. soon
  8. under
  9. watch
  10. words

 

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Homework for 1/29 - 2/2/20

Our Journeys story of the week is “Luke Goes to Bat.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (antonyms) for lesson 17 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, February 2nd.

We’ll continue learning about measurement in Sadlier Math.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ test before Monday, January 29th. All library books need to be returned by 1/29.

Spelling Words

  1. night
  2. kind
  3. spy
  4. child
  5. light
  6. find
  7. right
  8. high
  9. wild
  10. July
  11. fry
  12. sigh
  13. by
  14. why
  15. behind
  16. lightning

High Frequency Words 

  1. any
  2. blue
  3. carry
  4. doing
  5. else
  6. room
  7. studied
  8. sure
  9. teacher
  10. turned


Sunday, January 14, 2024

Homework for weeks 1/16 - 1/19 and 1/22 - 1/26

Our Journeys story of the week is “Mr. Tanen’s Tie Trouble.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (pronouns) for lesson 16 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these and the story with your child. Due to the shortened school week, we’ll be spending this week and next week on lesson 16. Language arts tests will be on Friday, January 26th.

We’ll be learning about measurement in Sadlier Math, chapter 6.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ test before Monday, January 22nd. All library books need to be returned by Monday, 1/22.

Spelling Words

  1. running
  2. clapped
  3. stopped
  4. hopping
  5. batting
  6. selling
  7. pinned
  8. cutting
  9. sitting
  10. rubbed
  11. missed
  12. grabbed
  13. mixed
  14. going
  15. wrapped
  16. swelling

High Frequency Words 

  1. also
  2. fly
  3. gone
  4. have
  5. horse
  6. look
  7. river
  8. said
  9. saw
  10. something

Monday, January 1, 2024

Christmas Party 2023


Thank you to Brooklyn’s mom and Sophie’s mom for making our Christmas party so fun! Thank you also to all who sent in treats for our celebration. We had a blast!

 

Homework for weeks 1/3 - 1/5 and 1/8- 1/12

 Our Journeys story of the week is “Officer Buckle and Gloria.” There are 14 spelling words and 2 challenge (bonus) words. There are also 10 high frequency words. Please have your child practice reading, writing, and spelling both lists of words. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill (abbreviations) for lesson 15 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these and the story with your child. Due to the shortened school week, we’ll be spending this week and next week on lesson 15. Language arts tests will be on Friday, January 12th.

We’ll be reviewing 2-digit subtraction with and without regrouping, and will have the chapter 5 test Tuesday, January 9th.

ReadnQuiz: Because of the break, we won’t visit the Library until next Monday, so there is no RQ requirement for this week.

Spelling Words

  1. cannot
  2. pancake
  3. maybe
  4. baseball
  5. playground
  6. someone
  7. myself
  8. classroom
  9. sunshine
  10. outside
  11. upon
  12. nothing
  13. into
  14. inside
  15. nobody
  16. everywhere

High Frequency Words 

  1. after
  2. book
  3. care
  4. ever
  5. live
  6. new
  7. off
  8. over
  9. small
  10. thought