I hope that my lesson plans being on-line will help you assist your child at home with school assignments. Remember our school motto: Learning Takes Three: Parent, Teacher, and Me (student). The purpose for placing my plans on-line is for you to be better informed. Also, I want you to see what goes on in the classroom so you can help carry over the learning in your home.

Daily Schedule

7:45 - 8:00 Journal Writing

8:00 - 8:15 Roll Call, Lunch Count, Pledge, Bible Story

8:15 - 9:30 Reading (Phonics), Spelling, and Handwriting (Bathroom Break also)

9:30 - 10:15 Activity Time (It will vary each week.) I will post this on Monday when I am back at school.

10:15 - 11:15 Reading Comprehension (Bathroom Break)

11:15 - 11:45 Lunch

11:45 - 12:15 Reading Comprehension/S.S., Science

12:15 - 1:00 Language

1:00 - 2:00 Math (Bathroom Break)

2:00 - 2:30 Recess

2:30 - 2:45 Shared Reading from the Teacher

2:45 - 3:00 - Pack and go home (Bathroom Break)

Phonics/Reading

Monday - Saxon Phonics Lesson #106 - Digraph ey

Tuesday - Saxon Phonics Lesson #107 - Suffix -es

Wednesday - Saxon Phonics Lesson #108 - Digraph ue

Thursday - Saxon Phonics Lesson #109 - Suffix -ous

Friday - Saxon Phonics Lesson #110 - Assessment

Reading

Reading Story - "Nine-in-One, Grr!, Grr!"

Vocabulary

mountain - a piece of land that rises high above the surrounding

lonely - having a sad feeling because one is by oneself

Earth - planet on which we live

memory - ability to remember things

wonderful - very good

forget - not remembering something

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY WORDS: predicting, prefixes, punctuation, fiction

Monday - SET: Introduce the story vocabulary using the glossary. Discuss the purpose for the story and the story organization; require justification of answers 2b1(DOK 3) and 2a3(DOK 2). Read poem; Discuss sibling relationships. Introduce the story and listen to the story on the computer. Identify and practice reading and using rhymes. Use the board.

CLOSURE: Review rhymes.

Tuesday - Review the story vocabulary. Read the story in groups and discuss. Write a retell only being the author today. Watch the story on the Promethean Board answering questions from the story. Complete the vocabulary practice and reteach sheets pages 228. Complete story comprehension sheet on page 229. Students will write a paragraph about a sibling (if no sibling than another relative). I will have a substitute on this day.

CLOSURE: Share their paragraph.

Wednesday - Read story in groups and discuss. Answer questions in the back of the story on paper. Complete handout about rhymes. I will be defending my dissertation on this day and will have a substitute teacher.

Thursday - Review the vocabulary. Read and discuss the story in partner groups. Review rhymes. Review context clues, compare and contrast, cause/effect, main idea, and author's purpose.

CLOSURE: Compare and Contrast students.

Friday - Continue with our Academic Vocabulary binders. Take the reading test.

Language Arts Common Core Standards:

R.L.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its character, setting, or plot, DOK 2.

R.I.2.5 Know and use various text features (captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. MS standard 2a Use text features, parts of a book, test structures and genres to analyze test-title, headings, graphs, captions, charts, etc. DOK 2.

S.L.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and tests with peers and adults in small and larger groups, DOK 1.

R.I.2.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area, DOK 1.

L.2.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking DOK 1.

S.L2.6 Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification, DOK 1.

R.F.2.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension, DOK 1.

W.2.3 Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure DOK 3.

L.2.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking, DOK 1.

S.L.2.6 Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. DOK 1.

R.L.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text, DOK 2.

Language

Standards: L.2.1 - Demonstrate command or the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking

Monday - SET: Write a word on the board that includes a prefix. Ask for volunteers to find the root word and then prefix. Flipchart: Prefixes and Base Words; Student book pages 164-165; Class Sheets: Prefixes: un, re, dis; Practice 50. Use flip chart on district technology site.

Closure: Review prefixes.

Tuesday - Set: Practice using prefixes. Class sheet: Get it Started; Prefix mis and un. Also complete other practice sheets using prefixes.

Closure: Review prefixes.

Wednesday - SET: Orally ask students where a prefix goes on a word and what it does to the word. Give some examples. Class sheet: prefixes in and pre; prefixes dis and un.

CLOSURE: Review all prefixes for the week.

Thursday - SET: Take a test on prefixes.

CLOSURE: Review prefixes.

Friday- Practice writing in paragraphs. Review prefixes.

Math

Monday - Set - Continue unit 5 Measurement. Discuss attributes of items. Review the inch part of the ruler. Review measuring inches, feet, and yards. Introduce the metric part of the ruler. Practice measuring things in the room. Also introduce estimating with measurement. Work on word prblems using length with unknowns (DOK 2). Practice using classwork practice sheet and board. Standard MD.5 DOK 2. Use addition & subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units. e.g., by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) & equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. Use enVision Common Core on board.

Closure: Online game: funbrain.com/measurement

Tuesday - Set - Review measuring using a ruler with centimeters. Complete a page of measuring. Practice estimating how many centimeters items are in the classroom and then measure the items. Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving length that are given in the same units for using such drawings of equations with the symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. Standard MD. 5 DOK 2. Use enVision Common Core on board.

Closure: Review the characterics of rulers.

Wednesday - Set - Continue measuring items on a practice sheet. Continue estimating the tool or measure as being inches, feet, or yards, centimeters, and meters. Practice measuring.

Closure: Practice measuring with partners.

Thursday - Set: Students will complete a weekly test using the metric system.

Closure: Practice measuring items with partners.

Friday - Complete Unit 5 Common Assessmenttest of measurement.

Closure - Practice measuring items in their desks.

***MS Math Standards: