In this ongoing second-grade class, students will join the teacher five days a week (Monday through Friday PST) for a well-rounded language arts curriculum in phonics, sight words and spelling, grammar, reading comprehension, & opinion paragraph writing while having a blast! Running a 30-week cycle (two semesters/one academic year) of curriculum running year-round, your student will have a full school year of English Language Arts at any time throughout the school year. This class is designed for second-graders who need a challenge, and for third-graders who need to get caught up.

Each class begins with a short warm-up to get students in the mindset to engage in class in a friendly and fun way, and then the topic of the day will be announced:

🌞Monday: Phonics
🌞Tuesday: Reading Comprehension
🌞Wednesday: Sight words and spelling
🌞Thursday: Opinion Paragraph Writing 
🌞Friday: Grammar 

Every lesson is fully engaging and students will be encouraged to participate through fun games, puzzles, and group votes without being put in the spotlight (but with plenty of opportunities for independent responses). Students will feel confident by the end of each lesson that they have mastered the day's concepts and goals. 

Here is the upcoming lesson schedule (PST):																	

🌞 Week of October 28th-November 1st (Lessons 4)
Monday: (Phonics and Sight Words) 3 letter "r" consonant blends			
Tuesday: (Reading Comprehension) The Lion and the Mouse			
Wednesday: (Spelling): right, made, listen, answer, another			
Thursday: (Opinion Paragraph Writing) Special Halloween/Fall Writing Prompts		
Friday: (Grammar) plural s, es, and ies endings	

🌞 Week of November 4th-8th (Lessons 5)	
Monday: (Phonics and Sight Words) tion, cian, sion suffixes			
Tuesday: (Reading Comprehension) The Fox and the Stork			
Wednesday: (Spelling): more, children, float, after, said			
Thursday: (Opinion Paragraph Writing) Who is the best character?			
Friday: (Grammar) four sentence types			

🌞 Week of November 11th-15th (Lessons 6)	 	
Monday: (Phonics and Sight Words) ir, er, and ur				
Tuesday: (Reading Comprehension) The Donkey and the Lap Dog				
Wednesday: (Spelling): really, little, about, again, nice				
Thursday: (Opinion Paragraph Writing) What is the best playground toy?				
Friday: (Grammar) homophones: blew, blue, war, wore, peace, piece				

🌞 Week of November 18th-22nd (Lessons 7)	
Monday: (Phonics and Sight Words) syllables				
Tuesday: (Reading Comprehension) The Shepherd's Boy & the Wolf				
Wednesday: (Spelling): house, many, small, school, thank				
Thursday: (Opinion Paragraph Writing) What is the best school subject?				
Friday: (Grammar) temporal words				

🌞 Week of November 25th-29th (Lessons 8)	
Monday: (Phonics and Sight Words) hard and soft C				
Tuesday: (Reading Comprehension) The Bear and the Travelers				
Wednesday: (Spelling): being, wrong, favorite, sure, usually				
Thursday: (Opinion Paragraph Writing) NO CLASS			
Friday: (Grammar) NO CLASS													

If a student misses a class, there will be a recording available to view so your child won't miss any of the lessons. Ongoing classes are designed so that students may come and go as needed without missing anything - lessons do not build on one another. 

See you in the classroom!

Love,
Teacher Bethanie