News & Calendar:
- Log your reading days from last week: RTSUtah.com (or have a PARENT initial the days you’ve read inside your planner on the April calendar if you do not have access to internet.)
- Our end-of-year testing starts this week! Free breakfast for all students from the 20th through the 24th!
- Our school is celebrating Earth Day by collecting recyclable items in coordination with Nelson Laboratories. You can bring used ink cartridges, old crayons, or plastic grocery sacks to school any day this week.
- Thursday is PTA’s “Harmon’s Day.” There will be games and activities from 3-8. If you mention Calvin Smith Elementary when you make a purchase during that time, the school will get a donation!
- We will start our last Literacy Unit this week: “America’s People.”
Main Objectives for this week:
Students will be able to…
… read and comprehend this week’s selection, “April and Her Family,” focusing on the strategy “Clarifying.”
… learn and use these new vocabulary words:
explorer, orchid, chores, discovered, sesame, popular, and wiser.
… review plural words, antonyms, synonyms, compound words, & contractions.
… review common nouns, proper nouns, and action verbs.
… read and retell the decodable story #45: “Chinatown in San Francisco.”
… read and practice this week’s poem: “Goodbye and Hello”
Objectives from our “Imagine It!” Program:
Reading Informational Text:
I can identify the main topic and supporting details in text.
I can use context clues to determine the meaning of grade level words and phrases.
I can comprehend informational text by clarifying, making connections, and visualizing while I read.
Reading Foundational Skills:
I can recognize spelling patterns that make more than one sound and read them in words.
To comprehend, I can identify the purpose of a text and check my understanding as I read.
I can read text with purpose and understanding.
I can use context clues to help me figure out word meaning.
Writing:
I can write a narrative using the writing process.
I can improve my writing by revising and editing content, spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
In a group, I will brainstorm ideas and questions for our unit inquiry and record them in my writer’s notebook.
Speaking and Listening:
I can follow rules for participating in discussions including listening, asking appropriate questions, building upon others comments, and staying on topic.
I can retell key ideas and details from a text read aloud or as a whole group.
I can tell a story or recount an experience with relevant facts and details.
I can paraphrase or retell a speaker’s message in my own words, speaking in complete sentences.
Language:
I can use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
I can spell words using patterns that make more than one sound (food, foot).
I can identify and use context clues to find the meanings of unknown or multiple meaning words.
I can use context, affixes, root words, or compound words to clarify the meaning of unknown words.
I can define the individual words in compound words to determine meaning of the whole word.
I can connect content vocabulary with the theme and selections to deepen my understanding of words.
I can use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, being read to, and responding to texts.
Spelling
- flow
- cube
- tool
- took
- nook
- flower
- cook
- noon
- fume
- loom
- moonbeam
- mountain
- mowing
- eyebrows
- snowplow
Spelling Homework this week:
Monday– “Copy 3x”= copy the words you missed on the pretest 3 times
Tuesday-Wednesday– Choose any two:
“ABC Order”= list the spelling words in ABC order
“Syllables”= sort your words by how many syllables are in the words. For words that have more than one, place a large dot or slash in between each syllable, such as “ba/sic”
“Quiz”= have a partner quiz you on the words
Thursday– Test!
Common Core Standards we are focusing on that match this week’s objectives:
RI 2.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area. (T48-T49)
RI 2.10: By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. (T54-T55, T62-T63)
RF 2.3.e: Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences, ((T26-T27, T44-T45)
RF 2.4.a: Read on-level text withy purpose and understanding. (T47. T77)
RF 2.4.c: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. (T48-T49)
W 2.5: With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing. (T84-T85)
W 2.7: Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations). (T38-T39)
SL 2.1.a: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). (T64)
SL 2.1.b: Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others. (T64)
SL 2.2: Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (T2-T3, T36, T64)
SL 2.2: Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (T87)
SL 2.6: Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (T87)
L 2.2.b: Use commas in greetings and closings of letters. (T40-T41)
L 2.2.d: Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage – badge; boy – boil). (T69)
L 2.4.a: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. (T48-T49)
L 2.4.d: Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark). (T60-T61, T73)
L 2.5.a: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy). (T48-T49)
L 2.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy). (T64, T66-T67)
Mystery Question!
Your student will receive a Skyhawk HERO Ticket if he or she can answer the “Mystery Question” in his or her planner or on a piece of paper sometime before Friday:
This week we start our new (and last!) unit called “America’s People.” Can you name a famous person who has helped America?