Welcome to 2nd Grade!

We’re already off to a great start in 2nd grade! I know it’s going to be an AWESOME school year! Please check back here each week for important classroom information.

Homework for 5/15 - 5/19

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. Vocabulary words and Grammar skill 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, May 19th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, May17th. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school Wednesday.

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

Homework for week 5/1 - 5/5

 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 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, May 5th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, May 3rd. Also, please check to make sure your child returns his/her library books to school Wednesday.

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

Homework for weeks 4/3 and 4/11

 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 for lesson 22 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Due to the Easter break, Language Arts tests will be on Friday, April 14th.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, April 5th.

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 

Homework for week 3/27 - 3/31

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 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 31st.

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, March 29th.

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. nothing
2. move
3. across
4. took
5. house
6. voice
7. behind
8. one
9. how
10. out

Homework for week 3/20 - 3/24

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 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, March 24th.

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

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, March 22nd.

Homework for week 3/6 - 3/10

 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 for lesson 19 are in the Journeys textbook, if you’d like to review these with your child. Language Arts tests will be on Friday, March 10th.

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

ReadnQuiz: Please make sure your child reads his/her RQ book and passes the RQ quiz before Wednesday, March 8th