Spelling City & Raz-Kids Today!

While I am out at a Technology conference in Baltimore, you will practice this week's spelling words by playing the games on www.spellingcity.com.  You must login to Spelling City and click on the list for this week:

2nd Grade Weekly Spelling Words - 4/23/13

Everyone has the same password:  titans
If you forget your User Name, you can click on "2nd Grade Spelling City Logins" in the right column of my blog.

If you have finished all of the games, you may practice your reading by going to:
http://www.raz-kids.com/main/Login
Your Teacher User Name:  mgreenaar

Identifying Verbs and Nouns

 

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/verb/balloon_game/

http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm

Click on Verbs then click Go

 http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=2&Unit=5&Topic=verbs&x=37&y=9

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=0

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm

Book Reports on the iPad!

Today, everyone will create a book report about one of your favorite books.  Hopefully, you completed the chart that was given for Language Arts homework last night.  If you were not able to work on the chart, you will open Raz-Kids and practice reading books and taking the quiz for comprehension.   I am looking forward to learning some interesting information about your favorite books!

April is Poetry Month!

So, we will create some poetry today.  You will have a choice between two different types of poetry:
1.  A Theme Poem - select one of the themes (nature, school, sports, etc.) and use words that describe your theme.  Your poem will print in the shape of the theme you selected.
Click on the link below to begin creating your Theme Poem:

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



2. A Diamante Poem - a diamond-shaped poem that uses nouns, adjectives, and -ing words to describe two opposite topics (for example, night/day or winter/spring).  It does not have to rhyme.
Click on the link below to begin creating your Diamante Poem:



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



Practicing High Frequency Words & Totem Poles

1st Activity:  Select 14 High Frequency Words.  Click on "Play Hard".  Match the written word to the spoken word (first click on the speaker to hear the word).

http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Blast-Off-High-Frequency-Version-211

2nd Activity:  Totem Pole Maker.  Choose 5 different animals to make your very own totem pole.  Descriptions of what each animal represents will appear when you scroll over the animals.  You may print your totem pole when you are finished (don't forget to include your name).

http://mrnussbaum.com/totem/

Your Choice Today!

Today, you have a choice of working on one of the following programs:

Mathletics



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.mathletics.com

 

 

Spelling City



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.spellingcity.com

 

Neighborhood Map Machine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no link for Neighborhood Map Machine. You must minimize the Technology Blog and then click on the Neighborhood Map Machine icon on your desktop.

 

 



Grammar Day!

Word Sort

 

1.  Sort the words under -sh, -th, -ch or -wh
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordsort/index.html?grade=2&unit=9

2. Sort the words under -o, -ow or -oa
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordsort/index.html?grade=2&unit=15


Word Buider



 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Spell words with the double consonant pattern using -ch, -sh, -th and -wh

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordbuilder/index.html?grade=2&unit=9

 

2. Spell words that end with -mp, -ng, -nd, -nk and -nt

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordbuilder/index.html?grade=2&unit=10

 

3. Spell words that have the long a vowel sound spelled with -ay, -ai or a -consonant-e

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordbuilder/index.html?grade=2&unit=13

 

Word Find

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordfind/index.html?grade=2&unit=7

 

2. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sv/applications/wordfind/index.html?grade=2&unit=15