Mr. Greg's Second Grade Class

Wednesday Feburary 29

2012-02-29T03:38:00.000-08:00

We have our spelling test tomorrow and we might have a test on the flashcards from last week and this week.

Tuesday February 28

2012-02-28T02:05:00.002-08:00

Students should be studying the spelling and flashcards at home.

We finished reading our stories today in class and the students did well understanding them. I will give them back to the students tomorrow.

Sunday February 26th

2012-02-26T04:54:00.002-08:00

We are still singing our song Hello, Goodbye.

We are going to have a spelling and vocabulary test on Thursday

We are reading new stories in our reading books, "We Want Some Too," and "The Same as You"

This week's spelling words...

ride, same, flower, lake, wet, face, nose, ear, hand, mouth

Reminder

2012-02-22T02:46:00.000-08:00

We have a spelling test tomorrow. We will also have a test on our flashcards for the week.

Here is the video for our new song Hello Goodbye

2012-02-21T02:33:00.002-08:00

Monday February 20th

2012-02-20T02:48:00.000-08:00

Here are our spelling words for the week:

away, man, woman, farm, catch, chat, like doing, going, what

We started a new song "Hello, Goodbye."

Wednesday Feburary 15

2012-02-15T02:30:00.002-08:00

We talked a lot about nouns today in class and the students are doing well.

There is a spelling test tomorrow.

This week's spelling words

2012-02-12T02:33:00.001-08:00

Here are our spelling words for the week. The test is Thursday.

toy, eye, bye, fish, today, water, small, head, chair, party

We started reading anew story in class today and working with nouns.

Monday February 6th

2012-02-06T13:36:00.000-08:00

Today was a good day in class.

We worked on reading and finished our story, "Fox and Bear."

We worked on spelling, speaking, and writing.

We also worked in our phonics books.

The students have homework tonight and a spelling test on Thursday.

Our First Day Back

2012-02-01T06:31:00.000-08:00

Welcome back.

Today was a good day. We've already started reading, writing, and working in our books. The student shave spelling words and a spelling test next Thursday.

There are our spelling words: grey, green, yellow, black, red, blue, pink, shoe, time, song.

We have started a new song called Zip-a-dee-doo-dah. Here is a video of the song.

Spelling tomorrow

2012-01-11T02:28:00.001-08:00

We have our spelling test tomorrow. Study.

Sunday January 8th

2012-01-08T11:20:00.000-08:00

This is the last week of school this semester. There is no homework this week except for students to study the spelling words. We will be doing review in class.

Monday January 2

2012-01-02T00:13:00.000-08:00

Here are the spelling words from the week. It is a short week so we are having some difficult spelling words again.

Spelling Words: ball, eraser, pencil, happy, sun, eight, ten, tall, easy, heavy

Sunday, December 11th

2011-12-11T00:24:00.000-08:00

New Vocabulary:

sister, brother, mother, father, aunt, uncle, cousin, family, grandmother, grandfather.

Spelling words:

bed, they, box, cake, hand, foot, toy, floor, game, leg

Spelling test tomorrow

2011-11-30T04:47:00.000-08:00

We have a spelling test tomorrow.

The words are:

by, fly, put, cut, pick, if, light, again, ask, full.

2011-11-27T03:24:00.000-08:00

Today was a short day of class because the students had art.

We have new vocabulary for the week. The students need to know what each word means.

dark, light, fat, skinny, dry, wet, high, low, easy, difficult.

We also have ten new spelling words for the week:

by, fly, ask, put, cut, if, pick, light, full, again.

They need to study these words at home.

Sunday, November 20th

2011-11-20T03:20:00.000-08:00

Today was a short day of class because the students had art.

They have new spelling words for the test on Thursday:

get, have, good, like, new, now, out, she, he, want

We are also studying new vocabulary words this week:

slow, fast, heavy, light, full, empty, hard, soft, left, right

Monday, November 13

2011-11-13T07:53:00.000-08:00

We had almost everyone back in class today but it was a short day of class because they had Art.

The students read from their books and we practiced writing.

We are working on opposite vocabualry right now....

hot, cold, short, tall, dirty, clean, closed, open, big, small

The students need to study their spelling words....

eat, all, do, why, are, saw, day, hot, fast, slow

Sunday, October 30

2011-10-30T01:24:00.000-07:00

Today we read our story "How Many Fish" and practiced the vocabulary: where, how, many, big, little, feet, happy, and sad.

We are still practice the days of the week and using them in writing sentences.

We also started a new dialogue for the week.

This week's spelling words: see, run, the, and ,up, to, you, he, she, am

Tuesday, October 25

2011-10-25T04:16:00.000-07:00

Today in class we continued reading our new song about the days of the week, we finished our story "Fish Mix," and we worked in our phonics books.

We've been working on dialogues this week and the students are doing very well with them. We have also started working in our Let's Go grammar books.

Sunday, October 23

2011-10-23T03:19:00.000-07:00

We had a great day in class today.

We started our new song about he day of the week and the students are liking it. This song focuses on the days of the week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

We also started a new story "Fish Mix." We started it today and the students are doing well. Students can spend time reading, understanding, and recognizing the words how, many, about, and they.

We practiced new speaking dialogues, worked in our phonics books and practiced writing sentences with prepositions.

We have a spelling test on Thursday. These are easy words but the students are spelling them wrong in their writing. They need to study how to spell all of these words.

a, I, in, it, is, me, go, on ,no, yes

Sunday October 16th

2011-10-16T03:35:00.000-07:00

Today was a good day in class.

We started reading our new story "I Went Walking" and the students did a very good job with it.

We practiced our prepositions: on, in, next to, behind, under, in front of, above, and between. The students now have flashcards to practice at home and in class.

We worked in our phonics books and continued singing out song Tomorrow. The students are enjoying the song a lot and doing well.

Thursday, October 13

2011-10-13T10:44:00.001-07:00

We had a good day in class today.

We've been working on preposition this week like behind, in front of, between, on, in, under, near, and next to. Today we started writing with those words in our sentences.

We also read from our reading books and finished the story.

Wednesday, October 12

2011-10-12T03:45:00.001-07:00

Today in class we practiced our new song Tomorrow.

We are working on prepositions this and next week in class. The new words we are talking about are near, next to, under, on, in, above, behind, in front of, and between.

The students have a spelling test tomorrow.

Sunday, October 9th

2011-10-09T03:40:00.000-07:00

This week's vocabulary: hi, dog, cat, one, two, this, that

Our spelling test is Thursday. Students should practice these words at home.

We started reading the story "What Did I See?" from the books.

We've also started working on prepositions in class. This week we will be studying the words: in, on, behind, in front of, next to, behind, near, above, and under.

The students have homework tonight.

A New Week.

2011-09-25T06:38:00.001-07:00

We are starting new things this week and getting into a daily routine.

Every day we start class with a quick warm-up and review the days of the week and months.

We started singing a new song called the "Insect Song." The students really liked it.

We worked on the letters x, y, and z and their sounds for our phonics activity today. Then the students read in their reading groups. First I read with one group while the students sat at their desks, practiced their handwriting, and played with vocabulary flash cards. Then the students switched and I read with the other group.

The week we are working on numbers and basic math in English.

The numbers we are working on are 0, 1-20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100.

We are also working on the words plus, minus and equals.

Welcome back!

2011-09-03T15:08:00.000-07:00

I'm really excited to be back in Nablus and another year at PBS. I'm really looking forward to seeing and working with the same students again. I have a lot planned this year and we'll be doing a lot of new and exciting thing.

As of now, we will have English this week starting on Tuesday, September 6th. See you soon!

Thanks,
Mr. Greg