In this semester long second grade class, students will join the teacher three days a week (Mon-Wed-Fri) for a well-rounded language arts curriculum in phonics, sight words, spelling, writing, grammar, & reading comprehension while having a blast playing games, reading books, doing word work and other fun activities together!!

Running on a 26 -week cycle (two semesters) year-round this class is designed for children who are entering 2nd Grade in the fall or for students who need to revisit the Second Grade Level Foundational Reading Skills. This class will cover all of the language art skills that a child would learn in a Second Grade setting. 


FALL AND WINTER SECTIONS RUN SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER
SPRING SECTIONS RUN JANUARY THROUGH MAY

Fall Sections begin SEPTEMBER 9th 2024


⭐️⭐️All activities will be led by the teacher and will consist of whole class activities as well as individual student work and activities.  Since the class size will be small we will have time for students to interact with the teacher as well as one another.  
My activities will consist of interactive games/video clips/white board and magnetic letter work as well as reading and discussing interactive texts.    

⭐️⭐️ Class will begin with a greeting and talking about their day or their weekend. Each class time will include an interactive game or educational video that focuses on a skills we are learning that day. We will also have a writing activity where we practice letter sound relationships, writing words or simple sentences. Each session will also include an interactive text that I am sharing with them as a read aloud or a grade level text that they are reading to me.  We will address sight words as well throughout the games, writing activities and interactive texts.  We will always end the class with a brief share time where kids can tell me things or share their favorite stuffed animal etc.  

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁Week of September 9th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Review Blends

Heart Words: Play a WordWall Game to see how many Kinder and 1st Grade Irregular Spelled Words they know. 

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading end of 1st grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain blends. Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Context Clues- Introducing what they are.  Talk about how they help us determine the meaning of a word. Play a Google Drive Fill In the Blank Game using context clues and reviewing 1st Grade Vocabulary. 

Grammar: Reviewing what nouns and verbs are. Brainstorming examples of each. Playing a sorting game with nouns and verbs for review.

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁  Week of September 16th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Review Digraphs

Heart Words: Review writing various Kinder and 1st Grade Irregular Heart Words 

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading end of 1st grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain digraphs. Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text.  .

Vocabulary: Context Clues- Introducing what they are.  Talk about how they help us determine the meaning of a word. Play a Google Drive Fill In the Blank Game using context clues and reviewing 1st Grade Vocabulary. 

Grammar: Reviewing Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns
Read a book with examples of these in it. 
Play a WordWall Game to decide which singular and plural nouns are regular and irregular

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of September 23rd 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Review VCe words

Irregular Heart Words: 
Introduce (mother/brother/father/water) Read them.

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading end of 1st grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain VCe words. Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Prefixes- Introduce what a prefix is. 
Review some common prefixes from Kinder and 1st Grade. 
(re-/dis-/mis-/un-/pre-)

Grammar: Adjectives
Introduce what an adjective is.  Play a fun game where everyone gets something from their room/house they can hold in their hand.  We take turns using our five senses to describe it.  


🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of September 30th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: Review -es/-ed/-ing

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading end of 1st grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words ending with -es/-ed/-ing. Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Review what a prefix is.  Talk about what (re-/dis-/mis-/un-/pre-) mean when they are placed at the front of a word. Play Airplane Google Drive Prefix Game. 

Grammar : Adjectives
Review what they are. Read a fun and silly adjectives book. 

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of October 7th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Review syllable types Closed/Closed, Closed/Open, Open/Closed

Irregular Spelled Heart Words: 
Introduce (mother/brother/father/water) Write  them.. 

Fluency and Comprehension
Reading end of 1st grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain two syllable words that contain open and closed syllable words.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Prefixes ((re-/dis-/mis-/un-/pre-)
Write words that contain these prefixes 

Grammar: Adjectives
Play a WordWall Game where students must sort words into their correct part of speech we have learned...
Nouns/Verbs and Adjectives into their correct categories.

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of October 14th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: Review special word endings.
tch/ch, dge/ge, Long VCC (-ild/-old/-ind/-olt/-ost)

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Introduce (today/very/above/among) Read them.

Fluency and Comprehension:  
Reading end of 1st grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain two syllable words that contain words with these special endings.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Review what a Synonym is.  Play a game where we try to generate as many synonyms as we can for a word.  Share Google Slides Synonym activities. 

Grammar:Adverb
Introduce what an adverb is.  Talk about some example of adverbs using a Google Slides  Activity. 
We look at a picture of an action word and we describe how someone could do that using adverbs. 

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of October 21st 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Review "R" Controlled Vowels

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Introduce (today/very/above/among) Write them.

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading 2nd Grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words with "R" Controlled Vowels.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Review what a synonym is.  Read a book together that has all kind of synonyms in it. Talk about some of the pairs of synonyms we see. 

Grammar: Adverbs
Review what they are. Read a silly book full of adverbs to the children.

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of October 28th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Common Long Aa Vowel Teams: ai/ay

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Introduce (again/against/always/almost) Read them.

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading 2nd Grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words with common Long Aa vowel teams.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Synonyms
Playing a WordWall synonyms sorting game. 

Grammar: Adverbs
Sentence Generator Game using the wheel of adverbs on WordWall

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of November 4th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Common Long Ee Vowel Teams: ee/ea/ey

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Introduce (again/against/always/almost) Write them.

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading 2nd Grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words with common Long Ee vowel teams.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Antonyms-Review what an antonym is. Ask children to give examples of pairs of antonyms that they know.  Read the Opposites book.

Grammar:  Review all the parts of speech we have learned  so far by playing a review game.  I will show students a word and they will vote on if it is a noun/verb/adjective or adverb.

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of November 11th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Common Long Oo Vowel Teams: oa/ow/oe

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Review all new heart words that have been taught.
Play WordWall Spin The Wheel Game

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading 2nd Grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words with common Long Oo vowel teams.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Review what an antonym is. Play a WordWall Synonym Matching Game

Grammar: Review what a pronoun is.  Look at common and pronouns we use 
(I/you/he/she/it/we/they/me/him/her/them)
Play a game where we decide which pronoun should replace the noun in the sentence. 

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of November 18th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Common Long Ii Vowel Teams: ie/igh

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Review all new heart words that have been taught.
Pick several to write and reinforce. 

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading 2nd Grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words with common Long Ii vowel teams.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Review synonyms and antonyms. Play a WordWall Game where students must sort word pairs into synonyms or antonyms boxes. 

Grammar: Review what a pronoun is.  Look at common and pronouns we use 
(your/his/her/its/our/their/mine)
Play a game where we decide which pronoun should replace the noun in the sentence. 

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of November 25th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
We will only meet on Monday of this week and we will do a review day of concepts we have been working on up to this point. 
Wednesday and Friday there will be NO CLASS due to my family celebrating US Holiday of Thanksgiving.


🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of Dec 2nd 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Common Vowel Teams: Review all we have learned so far. 

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Introduce (floor/poor/door) Read them. 

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading 2nd Grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words with all common long vowel teams.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Introduce homophones. Talk about what a homophone is.  Using Google Slides Activity to talk about examples of homophones. 

Grammar: Look at common pronouns we use
(myself/yourself/herself/hisself/ourselves/themselves)

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of December 9th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Other Vowel Teams: oo/u (oo)

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Introduce (floor/door/poor) Write them.

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading 2nd Grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words with vowel team (oo/u) .  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Homophones talk about what they are and play the School Homophones Game

Grammar: Collective Nouns/Irregular Nouns/Irregular Verbs/ Reflexive Pronouns/ Adjectives/Adverbs/Simple and Complex Sentences

🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁 Week of December 16th 🍁 🍁 🍁 🍁
Phonics/Word Recognition: 
Other Vowel Teams: oo /u/ Long u sound.

Irregular Spelled Heart Words:
Introduce (won/son) Read and Write them.

Fluency and Comprehension: Reading 2nd Grade level text from Just Right Readers or Half Pint Kids that contain words with vowel team (oo) Long u sound.  Discussing different comprehension skills that go along with the text. 

Vocabulary: Homophones. Read a silly book with lots of homophones in it. Talk about the pairs we see. Play the Grocery Store Homophones Game. 

Grammar: Review all the parts of speech we have learned this semester in a WordWall sorting game. 

FIRST SEMESTER ENDS

Sign up for the Spring Semester of this class which begins on

MONDAY JANUARY 6TH