Second Grade Weekly Newsletter September 21-24, 2015
Animals Building Homes
Spelling Words-*test on Thursday
1.next
8.stand
2.end
9.long
3.camp
10.stamp
4.sank
11.pond
5.sing
12.bring
6.drink
13.jump
7.hunt
14.left
Vocabulary-*test on Thursday
1. pond- a small body of water
2. winding-not straight, curvy
3. deepest-the most hidden or inside parts
4. beaks-birds’ mouths
5. branches-limbs of trees
6. break- to snap off
7. shaped- in the same form of
8.hang- attach something from up high so it drops down
Story of the Week – “Animals Building Homes” Read every night and daily in class
Reading Skills: Graphic Features- photos or drawings such as maps, or charts that stand for ideas or add to
details in the text
Text Features- parts of the text such as titles, headings, or special type(boldface print)
Title-“The Trumpeter Swan”
Headings-Searching For Food, Making a Nest
Special Type- What does branches mean?
Question-Asking a question about a text feature can help you to understand the selection.
Vocabulary Strategies-Base words-a word to which prefixes can be added.
Ex.- The base word of unwholesome is whole.
Prefix- a word part attached at the beginning of a base word that changes the meaning
. of the word.
Ex. – un is a prefix that means “not” or “undo”- untie means not tie
re is a prefix that means “again”- repaint means to paint again
Final Blends with nd, ng, nk, nt, ft, xt, mp ex: Spelling words
Grammar: More Plural Nouns- Nouns that end with s, x, ch or sh add –es to name more than one.
finch-finches, fox-foxes, glass-glasses, peach-peaches
More Plural Nouns- Nouns that change spelling to name more than one.
Goose-geese, child-children, tooth-teeth, foot-feet
Math: Relate addition and subtraction
You can use addition facts to remember differences. Related facts have the same whole and parts.
6 + 7 = 13
13-7= 6
5+4= 9
9-4= 5
Practice subtraction facts
These are some ways to find the difference.
You can count back by 1, 2, or 3
You can think about a missing addend to subtract.
7-3= 4
9-3= 6
8-5= ? Think: 5+3= 8
So, 8-5= 3
*Test on Thursday
Science: Unit A Life Science
Chapter 2 Animals
Lesson 2: What Are Amphibians?
1. Some examples of amphibians are salamanders, frogs, or toads.
2. Amphibians have moist skins and no scales.
3. Amphibians are vertebrates which mean they have backbones.
4. Most amphibians lay eggs in water.
5. Most adult amphibians begin their life in water.
6. Amphibians are cold-blooded. Their body temperature changes with the air or water temperature around
them.
7. Young amphibians live in water and take in oxygen through gills.
8. Adult amphibians live on land and breathe with lungs.
9. Amphibians usually eat insects.
10. Circle the animal that is an amphibian.
*test on Thursday
Social Studies
Unit 3
Areas of a Region *test on Thursday
1. A community is a place where people work, play, and live.
2. Population is the total number of persons living in a country, city, or any area.
3. Urban areas have large populations.
4. Suburbs have medium sized populations.
5. Rural areas have more land with a smaller population.
6. People in rural areas use the land more for farming and hunting.
7. Urban cities have a lot of tall buildings and is larger or more crowded than a town.
8. The suburb is a community outside of the city where people live in neighborhoods with individual houses or small
apartment houses.
9. A neighborhood is an area in a community where people live near one another.
10. Our largest urban city in South Carolina is Columbia.
11. Columbia is our state capitol.