2
Grade Home School
nd
Connection
Libby Elementary
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Week 1 of 2nd Six Weeks
October 5-9
Important Dates:
October 5 – Student Holiday – Staff Development
October 6 – OPEN HOUSE
October 8 – Cookie Dough Pick Up
October 9 – Report Cards
READING:
SPELLING/PHONICS::
2.3B We will ask relevant questions, seek clarification, and locate facts and
details about stories and other texts and support answers with evidence from
text.
2.3C We will establish purpose for reading selected texts and monitor
comprehension, making corrections and adjustments when that understanding
breaks down (e.g., identifying clues, using background knowledge, generating
questions, re-reading a portion aloud).
2.4 Students will read grade-level text with fluency and comprehension.
Students are expected to read aloud grade-level appropriate text with fluency
(rate, accuracy, expression, appropriate phrasing) and comprehension.
2.5A We will use prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of words
(e.g., allow/disallow).
2.5B We will use context to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar
words or multiple-meaning words;
2.2C We will decode words by
applying knowledge of
common spelling patterns
(e.g., -ight, -ant).
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GRAMMAR:
2.21A.ii We will understand and use the following parts of speech in the
context of reading, writing, and speaking: nouns (singular/plural,
common/proper).
MATH:
2.4B We will add up to four two-digit numbers and subtract twodigit numbers using mental strategies and algorithms based on
knowledge of place value and properties of operations.
FACT FLUENCY: Addition +2, flash cards provided.
2.2D We will read words with
common prefixes (e.g., un-,
dis-) and suffixes (e.g., -ly, less, -ful).
2.2F We will identify and read
contractions (e.g., haven't, it's).
2.23Bi spell words with
common orthographic patterns
and rules: complex consonants
(e.g., hard and soft c and g, ck).
Spelling List
FACT FLUENCY: + 2
2+6=8
doze2+0=2
tune
next
stamp
end
pond
camp
bring
sank
hand
2+1=3
nose2+2=4
use 2+3=5
2+4=6
rose2+5=7
sing
*cut
pole
drink
*fire
close
hunt
*may
cute
stand
*much
long
*birthday
Our list includes spelling patterns, focus
words, and High-Frequency words.
The SPELLING TEST is five *HighFrequency words, and five additional
words from this list.
WORDLY WISE
Extra Vocabulary Practice
accident
gap
acrobat
scoop
alarm
support
bounce
tangle
enormous
weigh
The more words you know, the
better! Vocabulary development
improves reading comprehension.
These words are assessed at the end
of the grading period.
2+7=9
home
2+8=10
2+9=11
joke
2+10=12
wrote
flash
cards provided
Informally assessed weekly. Formal
*what
assessment
end of six weeks.
*will
High *start
Frequency Words
You must instantly recognize these words by sight to improve
woke
*best
reading fluency.
mule
*them
animals
second
cut
bear
she
fire
know
sleep
may
most
three
much
myself
work
birthday
Target Vocabulary
pond – a small body of water
winding – not straight, curvy
deepest – the most hidden or inside parts
beaks – birds’ mouths
branches – limbs of trees
break – to snap off
shaped – in the same form of
hang – attach something from up high so it drops
down