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If you homeschool your child, or your child needs some extra help getting caught up and ready for third grade, it can be difficult to know exactly where to start. How do you know what activities and assignments will ensure your child is proficient in any given English Language Arts skill based on those important Common Core State Standards?

THIS CLASS IS LISTED AS WINTER SEMESTER FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSES BUT MAY BE TAKEN AT ANY TIME DURING THE YEAR.

This 8-week winter semester FLEX course for second graders easily takes off all the pressure. You can rest easy knowing that for the winter semester, your child is getting the EXACT lessons, application, reinforcement, and practice they need to thrive in second grade while ensuring they are properly prepared for third grade. The FLEX format allows you to feel in touch with the teacher while having the flexibility to suit your family's needs.

This FLEX class includes:
   ✏️ Fun daily activities and games to keep your child engaged
   ✏️ Step-by-step video and text instructions for all assignments
   ✏️ An attentive & responsive teacher who checks in regularly
   ✏️ A teacher who keeps track of student's grades and progress
   ✏️ Consistent assessments weaved throughout 
   ✏️ Office hours for students/parents to ask questions in real-time
   ✏️ Personalized feedback on every assignment students submit
   ✏️ Opportunities for partner/group projects as available (enrollment contingent)
   ✏️ Reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language CCSS topics
   ✏️ An engaging book club

📗Reading Common Core State Standards covered in the winter semester:
RL.2.1, RL.2.3, RL.2.5, RL.2.6, RL.2.9, RF.2.3.A, RF.2.3.B, RF.2.3.C
📗Writing Common Core State Standards covered in the winter semester:
W.2.3, W.2.5, W.2.6
📗Speaking & Listening Common Core State Standards covered in the winter semester:
SL.2.4, SL.2.1.A, SL.2.1.B, SL.2.1.C, SL.2.2, SL.2.5
📗Language Common Core State Standards covered in the winter semester:
L.2.1.A, L.2.1.F, L.2.2.C, L.2.4.A, L.2.5.A, L.2.5.B

⚠️⚠️⚠️ The combined winter, spring, and fall semester classes include the complete Common Core State Standards for second grade.

🗓️ Week 1 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
✔️Teaching students to advocate for themselves and how to get help:
     ~~~video lessons on how to navigate the classroom and how to get help easily with confidence

✔️Introductions of the teacher and students:
     ~~~Meet the Teacher game

✔️Reading Comprehension: Who, What, When, Where, Why
     ~~~Winter-themed 5W digital reading activity

✔️Book Club: Magic Tree House book #1 Dinosaurs Before Dark
     ~~~Students will read chapters 1-5
     ~~~5Ws activity to reinforce key understanding of the text

✔️Grammar lesson: collective nouns
     ~~~step-by-step video lesson on nouns, singular nouns, plural nouns, then collective nouns
     ~~~PDF worksheets, noun sorting activities, and digital games

🗓️ Week 2 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
✔️Major events & challenges in literature stories
     ~~~Video lesson on plot: Identifying characters and events
     ~~~Story Elements Sorting Game

✔️Character Responses
     ~~~Video Lesson on Character Response: The Little Red Hen
     ~~~Digital Challenge Character Response #1: Coby's Glasses
     ~~~Digital Challenge Character Response #2: The Mud Pit
     ~~~Digital Challenge Character Response #3: Sid's Sandwich

✔️Book Club: Magic Tree House book #1 Dinosaurs Before Dark
     ~~~Students will read chapters 6-10 (finish book)
     ~~~KAHOOT game for book vocabulary & reading comprehension
     ~~~Order of events cut and glue activity & vocabulary PDF worksheet
     ~~~Sort the plot elements of the book

✔️Grammar lesson: use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
     ~~~Lesson on context clues in vocabulary
     ~~~Context clues task cards: Which definition is it?
     ~~~Context Clues Escape Room

✔️Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.
     ~~~Video Lesson: Connection Commenting
     ~~~Response, Comment, Ask digital activity

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✔️ Learning how to ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.
     ~~~Video lesson
     ~~~text message game: asking for details
     ~~~Ask for Clarification PDF worksheet

✔️ Grammar lesson: temporal words (signaling event order and sense of closure)
     ~~~Video lesson
     ~~~PDF: sort the temporal words
     ~~~Fill in the blank: drag & drop the temporal words
     ~~~Assignment: write a simple temporal word story

✔️Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
     ~~~PDF: cut-out and paste the sequences

✔️Point of View (POV)
     ~~~Video lesson: three types of POV
     ~~~Sort the different POVs digital game
     ~~~Change the POV (I see, you see, they see)
     ~~~Video lesson: story POV versus character POV
     ~~~Who is speaking? Identify who is speaking in a text
     ~~~Character perspective: video lessons and PDF worksheets
     ~~~Studying point of views: video stories and PDF worksheets


🗓️ Week 4 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
✔️Book Club: Read chapters 1-5 of Magic Tree House book #2 The Knight at Dawn
     ~~~5Ws activity to reinforce key understanding of the text

✔️Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
     ~~~Video Lesson: What is the main idea?
     ~~~Main Idea Jungle Game: read non-fiction texts and identify the main idea
     ~~~PDF Assignment: What's the scoop? Read and identify the main idea on the ice cream scoop
     ~~~Video Lesson: How to recount a story
     ~~~Story retelling: Watch example video and complete three PDF worksheets
     ~~~Video Lesson: The Character Learns
     ~~~Listen to the read-aloud of the story, "Roses are Red and Your Feet Really Stink" then complete the PDF assignment

✔️Grammar lesson: Identify real-life connections between words and their use
     ~~~Video lesson: adjectives
     ~~~Digital Challenge: ID the adjective, type in the adjective, connecting adjectives to real-life experiences examples, and quiz
     ~~~PDF: identify the real world connections

✔️Story Study: Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks!
     ~~~Listen to the read-aloud of the story
     ~~~PDF assignment: identify the character, setting, problem, and solution
     ~~~PDF assignment: identify how the character changes from the beginning to the end of the story
     ~~~PDF assignment: identify adjectives in the story
     ~~~PDF assignment: identify the realistic versus the make-believe in the story
     ~~~PDF assignment: identify real-world connections in make-believe stories

✔️ Begin narrative story project 
     ~~~Watch/listen to the story, "Snowmen at Night"
     ~~~Brainstorm "what if" thinking and explore story settings
     ~~~Create the setting backdrop of a diorama and start the flipbook
     ~~~Character qualities
     ~~~Gather supplies and create your snowman for the diorama 

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✔️Book Club: finish reading Magic Tree House book #2 The Knight at Dawn
     ~~~KAHOOT games for book vocabulary & reading comprehension
     ~~~Order of events and story elements cut and glue activity

✔️Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
     ~~~Choose a scene from the book and recreate the scene through a chosen medium. Create a second scene from a different character's POV. 

✔️Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
     ~~~Choose a scene to re-enact. Students will choose a scene with more than one character and change the voice for each character based on how they interpret how the character feels.
     ~~~Choose a chapter from the book to re-tell (audio, video, or written submission)

✔️Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
     ~~~Video lesson: What is compare and contrast?
     ~~~Compare and Contrast Digital Game
     ~~~Watch & listen to two stories (The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs)
     ~~~PDF Activity: Cut and paste the stories' events into a Venn diagram to compare and contrast stories
     ~~~Watch & listen to two stories (Goatilocks and Goldi Rocks)
     ~~~PDF Activity: Cut and paste the stories' events into a Venn diagram to compare and contrast stories

✔️ Grammar lesson: distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs and adjectives
     ~~~Video lesson: synonyms
     ~~~Synonyms worksheet
     ~~~Video lesson: shades of meaning
     ~~~Shades of Meaning worksheets

✔️ Continue to work on the narrative story project
     ~~~What is your snowman's superpower?
     ~~~Give your snowman a tool or friend

🗓️ Week 6 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
✔️ Phonics lesson: distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
     ~~~Video lesson on distinguishing long from short vowel words
     ~~~Digital sorting game
     ~~~Worksheet and practice reading passage

✔️ Grammar lesson: use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
     ~~~Video lesson with quiz on apostrophes
     ~~~Video lesson with quiz on contractions
     ~~~Worksheet for contractions
     ~~~Video lesson with quiz on possessives
     ~~~Worksheet for possessives
     ~~~Sort the contractions and possessives

✔️ Work on your narrative story project: Introduction stories
     ~~~Video lesson on introduction sentences with examples
     ~~~Introduction to the story planning worksheets and templates
     ~~~How to grab your reader's attention: writing the story introduction sentence
     ~~~Edit introduction sentence

🗓️ Week 7 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
✔️ Phonics lesson:
     ~~~Video lesson and quiz: ee & ea
     ~~~ Worksheet: sort the ee and ea words
     ~~~Video lesson and quiz: ai & ay
     ~~~ Worksheet: sort the ai and ay words
     ~~~Digital game review

✔️ Grammar lesson: 
    ~~~Video lesson: What is a simple sentence?
    ~~~Digital activity: Match the simple sentence to its picture
    ~~~Video lesson: What are compound sentences?
    ~~~Worksheet: create compound sentences
    ~~~Video practice: sorting simple and compound sentences
    ~~~Worksheet: simple and compound sentence sort 

✔️ Narrative project:
     ~~~Writing what happened first, then next
     ~~~Writing the problem and solution

🗓️ Week 8 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
✔️ Phonics lesson: 
     ~~~Video lesson and quiz: ie & igh
     ~~~Worksheet: sort the ie and igh words
     ~~~Video lesson and quiz: ow & oa
     ~~~Worksheet: sort the ow and oa words
     ~~~Digital game review

✔️ Grammar lesson: 
     ~~~video lessons on editing with quizzes: punctuation, capitalization, & verb tense use
     ~~~digital editing activities
     ~~~editing quiz

✔️ Narrative project: conclusion and sharing

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Additional activities and assignments may be added based on students who need additional help, or if there is something just so fun I need to share!

HOW WILL STUDENTS ENGAGE? 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️
❄️ Google-based digital activities
❄️ Posting audio, video, and image-based activities
❄️ Kahoot, Escape Rooms, and other games
❄️ Printable worksheets

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