Ms. McKean's 2nd Grade Class

Welcome back for 2012 in D-8

tamlynm — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:11:55 +0000

Check out the new link to the math video sites for 2nd & 3rd grade standards ( the link is under Students_Math). Our first spelling test is this Friday 1/ 13. The pattern is the long e sound with the spelling pattern e, ee or ea

clean
keep
please
feel
we
be
eat
tree
mean
read
the (doesn’t follow the rule)
people (doesn’t follow the rule)

lady , believe, whole (High frequency words)

Sorry I to miss the first 2 days back. My daughter has been sick w/ a fever ( 103 degrees this morning). Hopefully, I will return on Wednesday.

Spelling for the week of 11/29

tamlynm — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:29:15 +0000

The pattern is the ”ow” sound as in owl.The letters ou and ow make the “ow” sound.

town
house
sour
frown
cow
clown
found
how
mouse
brown
could*
should*

behind*

No Homework for 11/9/11

tamlynm — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:17:21 +0000

The class earned a free homework night. Please sign and have your student return the ZOO permission slip. Thanks!

ZOO Field Trip Friday, Nov. 18th

tamlynm — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:53:19 +0000

We will be taking our first field trip to the zoo the Friday before Thanksgiving break ( 11/18/11). The San Diego Zoo field trip is free for all 2nd grade students in San Diego County. Our bus will be paid for by the money raised from our 2nd grade recycling program. I have added a fun website for the kids under Science or you can click on this zoo link.

* I have had more parent requests to go with us than places for chaperons. I can’t take any more parents, sorry.

10/31/11 Spelling Words – consonant blends

tamlynm — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:58:16 +0000

Looking at the consonants that blend together to make one sound. st makes a ssstt sound.example: t -e -st , test
1. help
2. stand
3. test
4. trade
5. class
6. chest
7. first
8. bride
9. twist
10. stick
11. touch*
12. young*
* High frequency words

10/17/11 Spelling List

tamlynm — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:09:21 +0000

The pattern is for double consonants again this week. The double consonants in the middle of the word separate the word into syllables- for example let/ter – letter . No high frequency words this week.

dress
pull
less
boss
sell
all
letter
silly
dollar
sudden

No Homework Tues 9/20

tamlynm — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:53:23 +0000

Today we were not able to complete our 5-3 work, so I did not send home the math homework. Look for it tomorrow. We are taking the district Math and district language arts tests through Friday. Please be sure to have them eat breakfast and get plenty of sleep so they can do their best. These tests help me to know what we need to reteach to students. The next 2 weeks will be our Fall Break. I will not be sending home much , if any, homework. If you would like work for your child, please email me and I can put something together.

No Spelling Words 9/19/2011

tamlynm — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:45:07 +0000

We will not have spelling words to work on this week because we have a lot of testing to do this week. All but 6 students will be taking the CELDT ( California English Language Development Test) Monday and Wednesday. We also need to complete the District Math and Language Arts tests by Friday of this week. So all of the students will be ready for the 2 week Fall Break!

9/12 Spelling List

tamlynm — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:15:04 +0000

This week’s pattern is vowel, consonant, e pattern making long “o” , Long “u” , and long “e” sounds.

1. bone 2. robe 3. use 4. these 5. rope 6.note 7. cute 8. close 9. hope 10. those

11. one* 12. goes* 13. beautiful (high frequency word ) 14. even (high frequency word )

* doesn’t follow the rule v-c-e

9/6 Spelling Words

tamlynm — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:21:55 +0000

This week has the same spelling pattern as last week: a_e and i_e

wife
nose
mine
tape
note
state
wide
alone
face
five
move*
poor
word

*high frequency word that doesn’t follow the o_e pattern