All of the skills reviewed in class will be directly pulled from 2nd grade Common Core State Standard lists for language arts, reading, and math. You can access those lists below, or by going to www.corestandards.org
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/2/ 
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/2/NBT/
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/2/MD/
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/2/OA/

This class is structured as a virtual "circle time", meaning, it would be as if we were sitting in a circle in a classroom, about to begin our day. We'll start with an ice breaker question that I'll encourage each student to answer (but it is optional) and then we'll pull up a calendar and talk about the date. After these intro activites each day, we will jump into our 2nd grade skills for the week. (See syllabus below). Students will be encouraged to contribute, share, ask questions, and there will be ample opportunity throughout the week for surprise "show and tell" moments, and personal story time. I think it is so important for students to have social interaction with peers their age while also making learning fun. I will teach presentation style via screen share. We'll have a few songs and chants that go with what we are learning specific weeks. Occasionally, we will have a read-aloud story from www.storylineonline.net that will be pre-listed on syllabus. *Jump in anytime as skills don't build on previous weeks, it's just a mix of 2nd grade skills!* WILL MEET MON & WED each week unless otherwise noted!

Week of Aug. 1
Sight Words: always, around
Phonics/Reading Focus: reading long and short vowel words
Math Focus: memorizing 1 digit math facts within sums of 20

Week of Aug. 7
Sight Words: because, been
Phonics/Reading Focus: reading vowel team words
Math Focus: math fact memorization

Week of Aug. 14
Sight Words: before, best
Phonics/Reading Focus: reading 2nd grade level passages with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension of text
Math Focus: addition and subtraction word problems within sums of 20

Week of Aug. 21
Sight Words: both, buy
Phonics/Reading Focus: reading 2nd grade level passages with purpose and understanding
Math Focus: skip counting by 2, 5, 10, and 100 up to 1,000

Week of Aug. 28
Sight Words: call, cold
Phonics/Reading Focus: decode regularly spelled 2 syllable words that contain long vowels
Math Focus: math facts and skip counting 

Week of Sept. 4
Sight Words: does, don't
Phonics/Reading Focus: prefix and suffix words
Math Focus: place value and working with 3 digit numbers 

Week of Sept. 11
Sight Words: fast, first, five
Phonics/Reading Focus: (The next few weeks the reading skill will focus on TEXT FEATURES): captions
Math Focus: comparing 3 digit numbers (greater than, less than)

Week of Sept. 18
Sight Words: found, gave
Phonics/Reading Focus: bold print in text and its meaning within a passage
Math Focus: double and triple digit addition and subtraction, without regrouping 

Week of Sept. 25:
Sight Words: goes, green
Phonics/Reading Focus: subheadings as a text feature
Math Focus: add up to 4 2-digit numbers

Week of Oct. 2
Sight Words: its, made, many
Phonics/Reading Focus: review all text features learned by reading and highlighting 2nd grade passages that contain the features
Math Focus: analog and digital clocks and telling time to 5 minutes

Week of Oct. 9
Sight Words: off, or, pull 
Phonics/Reading Focus: compound words and their meanings based on context clues
Math Focus: clocks continued, AM vs PM

Week of Oct. 16
Sight Words: read, right, sing
Phonics/Reading Focus: context clues within a passage to define words
Math Focus: money- coin and dollar values and names

Week of Oct 23
Sight Words: sit, sleep, tell
Phonics/Reading Focus: adjectives and adverbs
Math Focus: money related word problems

Week of Oct 30
Sight Words: their, these, those
Phonics/Reading Focus: comparing and contrasting stories
Math Focus: shapes (triangle, quadrilaterals, pentagon, hexagon, cube)

Week of Nov. 6
Sight Words: upon, us, use
Phonics/Reading Focus: story elements (character, problem, solution, setting, author, illustrator, author's purpose)
Math Focus: halves, thirds, fourths, whole- partitioning circles into equal parts and identifying what the parts are called

Week of Nov. 13
Sight Words: very, was, which 
Phonics/Reading Focus: who, what, when, where, why in a story
Math Focus: math fact review- sums within 20

Week of Nov. 20: We will have class this week, Monday & Wednesday as usual. Optional to attend since your holiday plans might affect your usual schedule. Refunds issued if you can't make it. SKILLS TO BE ANNOUNCED :)

Week of Nov. 27 
Sight Words: why, wish 
Phonics/Reading Focus: 2nd grade passage fluency practice
Math Focus: building numbers using ones cubes, tens rods, hundreds flats (cut outs for manipulatives will be provided) and addition problems using the manipulatives

Week of Dec. 4
Sight Words: work, would 
Phonics/Reading Focus: 2nd grade passage fluency practice
Math Focus: arrays and addition (5 rows and 5 columns)

Week of Dec. 11 (THIS WEEK, CLASS WILL MEET Mon. Dec. 12 and Fri Dec. 16, and no class on Wed. Dec. 14)
Sight Words: write, your
Phonics/Reading Focus: 2nd grade passage fluency practice
Math Focus: learning about expanded form of numbers up to 1,000 and how to write numbers in expanded form

Week of Dec. 18: Skills TO BE ANNOUNCED; we'll meet Monday & Wednesday, and then go on WINTER BREAK until MON. JAN. 9

Week of Dec. 25: WINTER BREAK, NO CLASS, CLASS RESUMES Jan. 9

*Circle time will continue on Monday, January 9, 2023. Have a wonderful Winter Break!* 

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January-May Schedule

Jan. 9 week: 
Sight Words: about, better (doing third grade sight word list)
Phonics/Reading Focus: common and proper nouns, capitalization
Math Focus: math facts 1 digit with sums to 20

Jan. 16 week: (MLK Jr. reading)
Sight Words: bring, carry
Phonics/Reading Focus: prefixes and how they change a word's meaning
Math Focus: facts with differences up to 20

Jan. 23 week:
Sight Words: clean, cut
Phonics/Reading Focus: compound words
Math Focus:  addition and subtraction word problems

Jan. 30 week:
Sight Words: done, draw, drink
Phonics/Reading Focus: reading and comprehension
Math Focus: place value up to 1,000

Feb. 6 week: 
Sight Words: eight, fall
Phonics/Reading Focus: adjectives
Math Focus: comparing 3 digit numbers

Feb. 13 week: (Valentines day math)
Sight Words: far, full
Phonics/Reading Focus: adverbs
Math Focus: clocks and telling time to 5 minutes

Feb. 20 week: (Presidents Day reading)
Sight Words: got, grow
Phonics/Reading Focus: verbs & capitalization rules
Math Focus: time continued

Feb. 27 week:
Sight Words: hold, hot, hurt
Phonics/Reading Focus: writing a friendly letter
Math Focus: money, dollar and coin values

Mar. 6:
Sight Words: if, keep
Phonics/Reading Focus: writing a letter continued
Math Focus: money word problems

Mar 13:
Sight Words: kind, laugh
Phonics/Reading Focus: catching errors in a passage
Math Focus: shapes, 2d and 3d

Mar 20:
Sight Words: light, long
Phonics/Reading Focus: text features: captions
Math Focus: building numbers with base 10 blocks

Mar. 27:
Sight Words: much, myself 
Phonics/Reading Focus: text features: bold print 
Math Focus: double and triple digit addition and subtraction- no regroup

Apr. 3:
Sight Words: never, only
Phonics/Reading Focus: text features: heading and subheading
Math Focus: adding and regrouping

Apr. 10:
Sight Words: own, pick
Phonics/Reading Focus: compare and contrast stories 
Math Focus: adding and regrouping, skip counting

Apr. 17:
Sight Words: seven, shall
Phonics/Reading Focus: fluency passages
Math Focus: word problems and addition regrouping

Apr. 24:
Sight Words: show, six
Phonics/Reading Focus: fluency passages
Math Focus: subtraction and regrouping

May 1:
Sight Words: small, smart
Phonics/Reading Focus: story parts
Math Focus: sub. regrouping continued

May 8:
Sight Words: ten, today
Phonics/Reading Focus: vowel teams
Math Focus: time review

May 15:
Sight Words: together, try
Phonics/Reading Focus: blends
Math Focus: money review

May 22:
Sight Words: warm, about, better
Phonics/Reading Focus: story parts and reading practice
Math Focus: math fact drills

May 29: *LAST WEEK OF CLASS BEFORE SUMMER BREAK*
Sight Words: reviewing all 3rd grade sight words
Phonics/Reading Focus: fluency practice
Math Focus: math mixed review of skills

*breaking for June & July- I am HOPEFUL to return from maternity leave in August. Stay tuned to class listing or message me with questions.*