May 23, 2016

Dear Parents,

With the end of the school year rapidly approaching, HATs tests are on the horizon. A HAT is a Henrico Assessment Test, which will cover all material that your student has learned throughout their second grade year. These tests are created by the county and are used to gauge students’ understanding of our curriculum. While we will be preparing in class by practicing test-taking strategies and reviewing prior content, please refer to the attached Language Arts, Reading, and Math concepts to review any areas of difficulty with your child.

Our HATs schedule is as follows:

Language Arts: June 1st & June 2nd

Math: June 7th & 8th

Please be sure that your child gets a full night of rest, eats a healthy breakfast, and arrives at school on time for these assessments.

Thank you very much for your support! Please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions or concerns.

Best,

Mary Slater

Language Arts:

  • Short vs. Long Vowel Sounds
  • Digraphs: ch, th, wh, sh, gn, kn, wr, gh (says “f”), ph (says “f”), au (says “aw”), aw
  • Blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, wr, dw, sw, tw, sc, scr, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, str
  • R- Controlled Vowels: or, er, ar, ur, ir, air, are (says “air”), arm, ark
  • Alphabetical (ABC) Order: completed to the third letter (ex. cab, can, car)
  • Counting Syllables
  • Silent-E Patterns: ide, ame, ake, ate (silent-e goes back and make the first vowel it finds say its name)
  • Synonyms
  • Antonyms
  • Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives
  • Plural vs. Singular Nouns
  • Proper vs. Common Nouns
  • Possessive Nouns
  • Vowel Sound Patterns: ear, eer,oo (says “ew”), ow, ou (says “ou”), oi, oy, ui, ew
  • Abbreviations: days, months, titles, streets (must have a capital letter and a period)
  • Prefixes (pre-/before, re-/again, un-/not)
  • Suffixes (-ful/full of, -less/less, -ing/action word, -ly/doing something in a certain way, -ed/happened in the past)
  • Compound Words
  • Homophones
  • Contractions
  • Noun/Verb Agreement
  • Pronouns

Reading:

  • Story Elements: characters, setting, problem, solution, plot
  • Beginning, Middle, and End
  • Sequencing Events
  • Nonfiction Text Features: bold words, italics, labels, diagrams, tables, charts, graphs, photographs, headings, subheadings, captions, close ups, timelines, hyperlinks, textbox, bullet points
  • Table of Contents
  • Index
  • Glossary
  • Dictionary
  • Internet Search Results: Which website makes the most sense for _____?
  • Main Idea: what the story is MOSTLY about
  • Questioning: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
  • Predicting
  • Summarizing: somebody, wanted, but, so, then
  • Making Inferences/Drawing Conclusions
  • Compare and Contrast
  • Fact vs. Fiction
  • Author’s Purpose: Why did the author write the story? Why would the reader read this story?, P.I.E. = persuade, inform, or entertain
  • Functional Text: recipes, fliers, how-to articles, directions

Math:

  • Graphing: bar graphs, pictographs, look at the keys to count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, etc.
  • Even/Odd
  • Ordinal Numbers: first (1st) – twentieth (20th)
  • Patterns: both visual and number (ex. 2, 4, 6, _, 10)
  • Reading a Thermometer counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, etc.
  • Fact Families
  • Equality: (ex. True or False? 12 + 2 = 8 + 6)
  • Place Value: ones, tens, hundreds positions, VALUE of each number

(ex. 324 – the value of the 2 is 20)

  • Comparing Numbers: greater than >, less than <, equal to =, comparing three digit numbers
  • Word Problems
  • Estimating/Rounding – rounding numbers to the tens place
  • Double Digit Addition & Subtraction
  • Estimating Sums Differences

(ex. 42 + 31 = ?, round each addend, 40 + 30 = 70)

  • Time – analog vs. digital, telling time to the hour, half hour (half past), quarter hour (quarter past, quarter til), and 5 minute
  • 2D and 3D Shapes – vertices, edges, and faces of each shape
  • Fractions – identify, write, and compare fractions with visual pictures
  • Money – counting coins and dollars to $2.00
  • Symmetry
  • Measurement – using a ruler to measure to the nearest inch (in.) and (cm.), pounds vs. ounces, reading a scale, capacity (cups, pints, quarts, gallons  ex. What would make sense to use to fill your bathtub?)
  • Probability – certain, likely, unlikely, impossible