Finish-Up Your Letters!

Today, everyone will finish their book recommendation letters to Ms. Green and Mrs. Gannon.  The letter that you started last week is saved on your desktop.  Please open your saved letter and continue.  All letters should have at least 4 complete sentences.

If there is time at the end of class, you may click on the following link and design your own pumpkin :-)

http://www.mothergoose.com/Games/flashGames/jacko.swf

More Letter Writing

Each student will choose a book that he or she has read and really enjoyed.  Everyone will type a letter, addressed to their teacher, that tells why they recommend this book.  You will use the ReadWriteThink letter template that you have used in the past.  Every letter should include the following: 

• Dear Ms. Green or Ms. Gannon
• The title of your favorite book and the name of the author
• Type this sentence and finish this sentence with your own words:  "I think you should read this book because __________________________________________."

Click on the link below to get started.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/letter_generator/

Grammar Day!

Let's build some words.  Click on the link below and then click on Unit 3 to begin practicing words with the long -a sound or the long -i sound spelled with the vowel-consonant-e pattern.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/books/gr2/wordbuilder/
Try the Bonus Round once you've spelled all the words in the Word List.

Next, try this Matching game and Concentration game using homonyms.  Click on LINK!!
http://www.quia.com/jg/1055.html






Is it a Noun or is it a Verb?  Click on the link below:

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/cleanup_eng_launcher.html








Practice with Synonyms:

http://www.quia.com/cc/67661.html 

Letter Writing!

Today, we are going to practice writing a letter to a friend.  You will use the ReadWriteThink letter format which includes the following parts of a letter:

• Today's date
• The greeting (type the name of the person to whom you are writing)
• The body of the letter (see below for more details)
• The closing (this is used to end the letter)
• Your signature

The body of the letter must include these 3 pieces of information:
1.  Tell your friend about your new pet.
2.  Tell your friend where you keep your pet.
3.  Tell your friend what you feed your pet.
EXTRA
4.  Tell your friend what problems you are having with your pet and how you solved them or how you are going to solve these problems.

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO START TYPING YOUR LETTER!
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/letter_generator/

Login to Spelling City!

We will be working with this week's spelling words using:
www.spellingcity.com
Open the website by clicking on the link above.  Today, you will click the Login button in the top right corner.  Everyone (except for 3 students) has a User Name that is: firstnamelastname (no spaces, all lower case!).  Everyone has the same Password: titans.  Once you have entered your user name and password, click on either List A (regular words) or List B (challenge words).  Click the green circle that says Play Games and play the following:

• Which Word?
• Missing Letter
• Audio Word Match
• Sentence Unscramble
• Word Search
• HangMouse

3 Exceptions to User Names

ryanbailey1

brycenbonilla1

emmettcook1

Is It An Asking Sentence???

Today, we will work on identifying Telling Sentences vs. Asking Sentences.  Click on the link below to start the first game.

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/statement_or_question/quiz1525.html

This one is a little tougher.  You have 3 choices, is it: 1) a telling sentence, 2) an asking sentence or 3) an exclaiming sentence.  Give it a try by clicking on the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/games/penguins_on_ice/small_no_sound/standard2.shtml

Once you are finished with these 2 activities, open Pixie and create a drawing of either:
1.  An example of a way that a father figure would show his love for you.
OR
2.  What does a Guardian Angel look like to you? 

Building Words & Fun Ways to Practice Your Spelling Words

After clicking on the following link, you must click on Unit 2 to begin practicing words with either a short -e, a short -o or a short -u.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/books/gr2/wordbuilder/
Try the Bonus Round once you've spelled all the words in the Word List.

When you are finished with this activity, click on the following link, type your weekly spelling words in the boxes provided and then make a Spelling Scramble and a Word Search:  

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/spelling.htm

Introduction to Mathletics

Today, I introduced Mathletics to 2nd grade.  Everyone had the opportunity to login with their individual user name and password, create their own avatar and start playing math games.  They worked on counting by 5's and by 10's, choosing which number is bigger and smaller and practiced counting using blocks of 100, 10 and 1.  I hope that 2nd graders will continue to work on Mathletics while at home.  Please click on the following link:  www.mathletics.com

Spelling City!

We will be working with this week's spelling words in a website called:
www.spellingcity.com
Open the website (click on the link above) and begin by typing your 10 spelling words into the empty white boxes.  When you need more boxes, click Enter to add another box. When you finish typing your spelling words, click the green circle that says Play Games.  Play the following games: 

• Which Word?
• Missing Letter
• Audio Word Match
• Sentence Unscramble
• Word Search
• HangMouse