Take A Stand!

An introduction to persuasive writing...

Chicken or steak?
                   Ocean or pool?
                                  Ketchup or mustard?
                                                        Which would you choose? 
Could you give 2 strong reasons for your choice? 

                                           Or possibly 3? 

                         These smart students certainly could! 

   

The students worked with partners to "Take a stand" about a topic. 

This was a great way to warm up for opinion writing. 

 After the warm up, the students were assigned the following prompt -

"Convince your parents to raise your allowance."

And boy, did they enjoy that topic!

Writing Standard- W.2.1

Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.

The Mitten

Who lost his mitten in the snow?

Who found the mitten and snuggled inside?

And, most importantly, who practiced retelling and acting out a super-fun story?

                            Why, the students of 2B, of course!                                 

           

Students enjoyed making the story characters and a large mitten to aid in retelling the story. They practiced with partners and completed other activities connected to the story, including making words from the letters in "mittens" and writing acrostic poems about mittens. 

 We also watched a video of the author Jan Brett, which you can see here!  

Making Fundations FUN!

This is what our daily Fundations practice looks like. 

                

 Sometimes we use Wikki Sticks to drill sounds and spelling. 

                           

On other days we use our Gel Boards and special stylus to spell trick words. We are learning second grade trick words and we also review first grade words. 

                              

Another activity the students enjoy is using the magnetic letter boards. These boards and magnetic tiles allow the students to practice building words.

Students use their Student Notebooks as a resource for spelling sounds.

                 

Additionally, students use white boards to record sounds, words, and sentences that are dictated to them. They use these boards to mark words and show where they are divided into syllables.

                                                    

 At the end of each unit students are given a skill Check-up in their Composition workbook.

Second Grade Standards:

Reading: Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

1. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
2. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
3. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.
4. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
5. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
6. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

What do you do on a snow day?

Snowflakes and Snow Days

                              

                                

Maybe the students of 2B are really outside catching snowflakes today! 

Share what you are doing today.

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Happy snow day!