Be Vocabulary Wise With Wordly Wise Grade Two Part One

The students will greatly improve their vocabulary base by learning the vocabulary words from Wordly Wise Book two- Grade two. There are ten words in each of the fifteen lessons in the book.  This class will last twenty weeks. We will cover the first ten lessons in book in this 20-week course. The words will be explained by Mrs. Wolf, using colorful and interesting slides with an example sentence. Each word has a colorful slide to help students understand the meaning of the word.  A discussion of each word will be given, including for the different parts of speech. A sample sentence will be studied for each part of speech.  Practice will be provided by using five approaches: finding the meaning using whatever part of speech, using context clues to find just the right word in the sentence, applying the meaning of the word, using the correct form of the word, then reading a narrative using the ten words in the lesson.  Each lesson includes a nonfiction narrative of high interest.  My learning style is informal with lots of student interaction. My goal is to have each child loving this class because he or she is learning and having fun! 

Multi-day course: Weekly class routine: one day per week

Day One of each lesson:
* Discuss each of the 10 vocabulary words using the colorful accompanying slide.  
* Practice saying the word together.  The teacher will show a picture of the word and discuss its part of speech and usage. 
* Modeling the word in several sentences so students can hear the word using in context.  The sentences that use each definition are on a slide. 
* Complete exercises A, and B  in the workbook together in class
* Outside of class before day two of the week, students will 
    1.  Complete exercise C and the crossword puzzle for this lesson.
    2.  Read the weekly story aloud to an adult and be prepared to complete the comprehension questions together on day two of the week.  

Second meeting of the lesson:
* The correct answers for exercise C will be given, along with a discussion of the correct answers.
* The reading passage for the week will be read.  The topic for the weekly stories is listed below. Students are invited to read aloud or the teacher will read the passage. My goal is to have the learners comfortable as to not be embarrassed to read aloud in class. 
* The comprehension questions will be completed as a group activity each week.

Each week will follow the same schedule.  
There are 15 lessons in the book.  This multi-day course will cover the first ten lessons in the book and last for 20 weeks.
The reading passages include the following subject matter for the twenty weeks:
Weeks one and two  Bailey the Cat
Weeks three and four:  Bats and Mosquitoes 
Weeks five and six:  Spirit the Robot
Weeks seven and eight:  Sa-so the Hunter
Weeks nine and ten:  How Plans Grow
Weeks eleven and twelve:  Fossils 
Weeks thirteen and fourteen:  American Flag
Weeks fifteen and sixteen:  Mother Nature
Weeks seventeen and eighteen: The Ferris Wheel
Weeks nineteen and twenty:  The Planets