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This Week in Second Grade
Week 4
Short Vowel Sound Review
Short Vowel Sound Review
This week, read rhymes and poetry with your child. This helps strengthen phonemic awareness skills (understanding how the sounds in words work) and will help your child prepare for working with word families at school.
Review the short vowel sounds to help students continue to build the foundational skills they need to be excellent readers and writers!
Find the Short Vowels: A
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Find the Short Vowels: A
Children examine eight pictures to determine which is pronounced with a short A.
kindergarten
Reading & Writing
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Find the Short Vowels: E
Worksheet
Find the Short Vowels: E
Children examine eight pictures to determine which is pronounced with a short E.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Find the Short Vowels: O
Worksheet
Find the Short Vowels: O
Children examine eight pictures to determine which is pronounced with a short O.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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Measurement
Measurement
Do you have any home repairs or decorating projects that need to get done? Designate your child as your assistant and remind them how to use measuring tape or a ruler. Next, have them measure walls, furniture, or anything else!
Use a chant to help students remember the relationship between centimeters and meters. For extra staying power, add gestures to the chant. For example, you could say, "When I say meter, you say 100 centimeters," and open your arms wide to show the length of a meter.
Ruler Reading: Inches
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Ruler Reading: Inches
Here's a math activity with a real-life application: measuring! Help your child get to know rulers and inches with this fun cut and measure worksheet.
2nd grade
Math
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Ruler Reading: Centimeters and Inches
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Ruler Reading: Centimeters and Inches
Does your child know the difference between centimeters and inches? Help him get to know these units of measurement by using a ruler to measure everyday things.
2nd grade
Math
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Ruler Reading: Rounding in Inches
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Ruler Reading: Rounding in Inches
Chances are your child knows how to round, but how about rounding in inches? Help him tackle this concept with an exercise in measuring to the nearest inch.
2nd grade
Math
Worksheet
Active Reading
Stop and Jots: Active Reading
"Stop and Jots" are an excellent tool to use for retelling or summarizing. Your child can practice active reading by marking their thoughts in a reader's workshop journal or on post-its.
"Stop and Jots" are an excellent tool to use for retelling or summarizing. Students should always be actively reading—marking their thoughts in their reader's workshop journal or on post-its. Students should mark when they have connections to a text, a question, a prediction, etc. At the end of the reading period, students can share their post-its with a partner to help them retell what they have read.
Sticky Note Stop and Jot Reflection
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Sticky Note Stop and Jot Reflection
Use this stop and jot reflection activity to assess reading comprehension. Your students will choose their favorite response to their reading and explain their choice.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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Sticky Note Stop and Jot
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Sticky Note Stop and Jot
Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Amelia Earhart Reading Response
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Amelia Earhart Reading Response
Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Brainstorming
Personal Narrative Writing: Brainstorming
Have your child brainstorm ideas for stories about their life. It could be a birthday party, a rainy day, or any moment in time that sticks out in their memory.
Have students create small notebooks to write down their personal narrative ideas. Remind students to think about meaningful experiences they had. For example, a special family gathering, birthday party, day with a parent, or when they got a new pet!
Rain Writing Prompt
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Rain Writing Prompt
What's your favorite thing about the rain? This rain writing prompt gets your child to use his powers of description to write about what happens on rainy days.
1st grade
Reading & Writing
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Draw and Write
Worksheet
Draw and Write
Got a case of writer's block? One great way to get started is to draw a picture!
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
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Make a Webpage
Worksheet
Make a Webpage
People communicate online by personalizing their own websites—now give your little one a try (just for fun). See what your child's homepage would look like!
2nd grade
Social studies
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