Week of January 17th - 20th

2nd Grade Math
We are working with money this week. We learned how to count on using various coins: half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. Please keep practicing this at home!


1st Grade Reading
We completed Unit 6 of our Wilson Fundations program today. Unit 7 will be working with new glued sounds. They are: ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk.
These glued sounds do not have individual sounds but they are closely glued together. To tap these out you use three fingers glued together to represent the sounds working together.


2nd Grade Reading
We are working on Unit 8 of the Wilson Fundations program. In this Unit, we are working with the r-controlled syllable.
This syllable contains a single vowel followed by an r (ar, er, ir, or, ur).
The vowel is neither long nor short; it is controlled by the r.
The syllable can be combined with other syllables to make multisyllabic words.

Week of January 3rd - 6th

Second Grade Math
We have begun our chapter on probability this week. Shortly we will be starting the next chapter on money.

1st Grade Reading
We have been working on Unit 6 of our Wilson Fundations program. The students have been learning about the concept of a baseword and suffix in a very simple way, with just the suffix -s.
Students will also be introduced to the concept of plurals.

2nd Grade Reading
We have been working on Unit 7 of our Wilson Fundations program. In this unit the students will be working with open syllables.
This syllable has only one vowel which is the last letter in the syllable.
The vowel sound is long.
This syllable can be combined with other syllables to make multisyllabic words.
Students will also learn that y often works as a vowel in open syllables, saying /i/ at the end of one syllable words and /e/ at the end of multisyllabic words.

Week of December 5th - 9th

2nd Grade Math
This week we began our chapter on Data and Graphs. Items that will be covered are: reading a table, using tally marks, bar graphs, pictographs, line plots and locating points on a grid.

1st Grade Reading
We have been working on Unit 5 of our Wilson Fundation program. In this unit the students are working with two new glued sounds. The first one is am, as in ham. The second one is an, as in fan.

2nd Grade Reading
We have been working on Unit 6 of our Wilson Fundation program. In this Unit we are reviewing a syllable type learned in the first grade program, the vowel - consonant - e syllable (or magic e)
Examples: cape, home, pine
Students will also review the two u sounds in v-e syllable; u as in mule and u as in rule.

Week of November 28th - December 1st

2nd Grade Math
Next week we will complete our 2nd chapter on double digit subtraction. This was a difficult chapter for most but my students tried their best. Keep working with flash cards at home!

1st Grade Reading
We have been working in Unit 4 of the Wilson Fundations program. In this unit we are working with the ff, ss, ll bonus letter rule. At the end of a one syllable word, if the word has one vowel immediately followed by an f, l or s at the end, double that consonant. The extra f, l, s is considered a bonus letter because it is extra. It does not make a sound.
Examples: hill, miss, puff

2nd Grade Reading
This week we completed Unit 5 of our Wilson Fundations program. Our next Unit will review a syllable type learned in Level 1, the vowel-consonant-e syllable (or magic e)
Examples: cape, home, pine
We will also work on reading and spelling procedures for two-syllable words with both closed and vowel-consonant-e syllables.
Examples: invite, reptile, baseball, lifetime

Week of November 7th - 10th

2nd Grade Math
This week we took our test on double digit addition. We also started Chapter 7 on double digit subtraction. Please keep practicing math facts at home!

1st Grade Reading
We continue to work with Unit 3 of our Wilson Fundations program. In this unit the students will work with the digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck). These stick together to form one sound, even though there are two letters.

2nd Grade Reading
We had our Unit 4 test on Thursday. Next week we will be starting Unit 5 from our Wilson Fundations program. This unit focuses on syllables instead of sounds. We will review the procedures for segmenting or dividing words into syllables. Ex: cat-nip
We will also work with four new consonant suffixes (-ness, -less, -ment, - ful) and three new vowel suffixes (-able, -ish, -en)

Week of October 31st - November 4th

2nd Grade Math
We are still working on double digit addtion. We have also begun working on rounding to estimate sums. Our chapter test will be next Tuesday.

1st Grade Reading
We are currently working on Unit 3 of our Wilson Fundations program. This unit works with the digraphs wh, ch, sh, th and ck. These digraphs stick together to make one sound, even though there are two letters.

2nd Grade Reading
We are currently working on Unit 4 of our Wilson Fundations program. This unit reviews the suffixes -s, -es, -ed and -ing. New suffixes that are introduced are -est and -er.
Students will learn to read the baseword of a word first, and then read the whole word with the suffix added.

Week of October 24th - 28th

2nd Grade Math
We took our Chapter 5 test on double digit addition on Thursday. The children are really understanding the concept. Chapter 6 also focuses on double digit addition so the children will get more practice.

1st Grade Reading
We completed Unit 2 of our Wilson Fundations program. This unit concentrated on blending and reading three short vowel words as well as how to segment and spell them.
Please continue to have your children read the books that I send home weekly. They may bring them back every Monday for new books.

2nd Grade Reading
We completed Unit 3 of our Wilson Fundations program. This unit concentrated on glued sounds such as: ild, ind, old, olt and ost.
Please continue to have your children read the books that I send home weekly. They may bring them back every Monday for new books.