Monday, April 15, 2013

Class News April 15-19

What’s New in Grade Two?
April 15-19, 2013

The TCAP test is NEXT WEEK!  We’ve been working hard to get ready and make sure we have some test-taking strategies in our back-pocket!  We know to take our time, read carefully, listen to instructions, stay on the right page, relax, mark out silly or unrealistic answer choices, reread, bubble in circles heavy and complete, and most importantly…believe in ourselves!

Parents, you can help us too!  Serve us healthy meals during the week, make sure we get lots of rest, get us to school on time every morning, and encourage us to do our best each day!

It's TCAP BootCamp Week!:
Monday-“Sock it” to the TCAP!
Wear mismatched socks.
Tuesday-“I’m a JEAN-ius!”
Wear jeans.
Wednesday-“Paint the halls ADVANCED!” Wear blue.
Thursday-“Be all you can be!”
Wear a Kinsgbury shirt.
Friday-“Ready for Action”
Wear camouflage or green.


Important Dates
Apr. 23-26      TCAP Testing
Apr. 29           Culture Assembly 1pm
May 2             Music Program 8:30am
May 10           Field Day!
May 16           Culture Assembly
May 22           Last day of school!

Reading/Language Arts

Story: Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag
Comprehension: Fact and Opinion
Grammar:  Quotation Marks
Fluency:  Accuracy, Pace, Intonation  Current goal = 102-112 wpm
End of year goal = 120 wpm
Spelling/Phonics: Inflected Endings
Vocabulary: Homophones

Spelling words

tried   trying   planned  planning   liked   liking   hiked   hiking   cried   crying   skipped   skipping   danced   dancing   replied   replying    

Dictation Sentences
He liked that we planned to go hiking.
I was skipping and dancing all the way home.

Math

Review for TCAP with a special focus on Telling Time, Fractions, and Measurement

Social Studies

Africa in April:
Understand the diversity of human cultures; Recognize the contributions of people of other ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups;

Science

Habitats of plants and animals
Ways that plants and animals depend on each other
Relationship between animal’s characteristics and it’s environment
How fossils tell about organisms that lived in the past

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