News & Calendar:
- Go to www.RTSUtah.com to log your reading days at the end of each week ASAP (or by the following Friday at the latest.) If you have no internet, use the October calendar inside your planner; make sure to include your initials, and which book your student read that day.
- This week there is a “Pizza with the Principal Night”/Donation Drive Dinner: Thursday, Oct. 9th from 6-7 p.m.
- Due to popular demand, you get ONE more chance to order school t-shirts and hoodies. Order forms will also be available in the front office or you can download & print a copy from the Calvin Smith Website. ALL PAYMENTS DUE BEFORE Wednesday, Oct. 15th. You can pay with a card at our “Pizza with the Principal Night” this Thursday.
General Objectives for this week:
Students will be able to…
… read and comprehend this week’s selection, “Corduroy,” focusing on the comprehension skill, “Making Inferences.”
… learn and use these new vocabulary words: palace, escalator, dashing, yanked, fastened, grateful
… always capitalize the first letter of a sentence.
… read and practice this week’s poem: “Pumpkin Poem.”
… read and retell the decodable story #16: “Just a Phase for Phil,” and #17: “Be a Wrangler!”
Objectives from our “Imagine It!” Program:
Reading Literature:
I can recount details of a story (e.g. fantasy).
I can describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.
I can identify pairs of rhyming words in a poem.
I can read the dialogue in text using appropriate voices for different characters.
I can understand characters in stories based on the illustrations and words in the text.
I can understand characters, setting and plot in poems based on the illustrations and words in the text.
I can comprehend on-level stories and poems independently.
Reading Foundational Skills:
To comprehend, I can identify the purpose of a text.
I can fluently read on-level text focusing on expression.
I can use context clues to help me figure out word meaning.
Writing:
I can write a narrative that tells about a specific event or short sequence of events, includes, supporting details, temporal words, and a concluding statement.
I can improve my narrative writing by revising and editing.
In a group, we can organize information about a research topic (produce a product).
I can find information from different sources.
Speaking and Listening:
I can ask questions to better understand topics and text.
I can follow rules for participating in discussions including listening, asking appropriate questions, and staying on topic.
I can verbally describe key ideas and details from our selection.
Language:
I can follow spelling rules and patterns for /n/, /r/, and /f/.
I can identify and use context clues to find the meanings of unknown or multiple meaning words.
I can use glossaries and dictionaries to determine or clarify meaning of words or phrases.
Spelling Words for this Week:
- graph
- knit
- knot
- phone
- write
- knife
- wren
- wrap
- wrist
- phase
- photo
- nephew
- known
- wrinkle
- alphabet
Spelling HOMEWORK for this week:
Monday– “Copy 3x”= copy the words you missed on the pretest 3 times
Tuesday– “ABC Order”= list the spelling words in ABC order
Wednesday– “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”
Thursday– “Quiz”= have a partner quiz you on the words
Friday- Test!
Common Core Standards we are focusing on that match this week’s objectives:
RL 2.2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
RL 2.3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
RL 2.4: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
RL 2.6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
RL 2.7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
RL 2.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
RF 2.4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
W 2.3: Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
W 2.5: With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
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).
W 2.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
SL 2.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
SL 2.2: Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
L 2.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L 2.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
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:
Sometimes when you are writing, you need to use a capital letter. How do you know WHEN to capitalize the first letter of a word?