Second Grade Homework
Due this Friday
Name: ______Number: _____ November 16 - 20
- Complete your daily book in the bag reading and record on your log.
- Practice your weekly words: read these words each day and be ready to spell them.
- Complete 4 out of the 5 skills practice activities below or take on the challenge and do all 5!
*is an easy activity ** is a challenging activity
Weekly Words: coal, coach, roast, roam, loaf, board, show, blow, grow, throw, know, below
Challenge Words: **mortified, distraction**
Skills Practice Activities: please initial each activity when complete.
___ 1. Write your weekly words in alphabetical order. Remember if two words begin with the same letter, you must look at the second, third, or maybe fourth letter! Separate each word with a comma.
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___**2. Edit the mistakes in the paragraph below. Make sure to add in the missing punctuation and fix misspelled words. There are 25 mistakes to fix. (Each missing quotation mark counts as one mistake.)
guess what everyone? Miss lipsky asked. Tomorrow, is my dad’s birthday! He is going to be 56
yers old. We want to get he a puppy because he loves dogs.
Really? asked elisabeth. I have a dog named lori She is yung, cute, and very special to me!
My dog, carter is fun to take on walks, said Davis. he loves to run fast insted of walking and
stoping all the time.
___ **3. Practice your lines and songs for our Holiday Musical, Once on a Housetop. Put a checkmark next to each item you have practiced:
My speaking part (5 times) ______Once on a Housetop ____
Ashes to ashes ____ A Big Red Fella in the Chimney ____ Kwanzaa Child _____
Lotsa Latkas _____ Just a Tiny Baby _____ Break the Pinata ____
___ *4. Draw a line to match the word with its definition. Think about how the words were used to figure out the author’s purpose for writing.
Inform To try to get someone to do something
Persuade To show or describe how to do something
Entertain To give information on a topic
Teach To make someone enjoy something, even if it’s scary or sad
___ 5. Read the paragraph from The Pilgrim’s First Thanksgiving and answer the questions.
Winter was coming. The Pilgrims had to find a safe place for all of them to live.
Everyday a group of Pilgrims searched the wild countryside. At last they came to a place with running brooks and rivers, and good land for planting. It was a good place to build their town. They named it Plymouth.
They wanted a street to go from the shore to the top of the hill. They wanted a fort on the top of the hill. They wanted houses on both sides of the street. They would have to make everything themselves.
It would take a long, long time to finish building Plymouth. In the meantime, they would have to sleep on their ship, the Mayflower.
Inferencing
1. Think deeply. Why did the Pilgrims want to build their town near a river?
A) So they could get back to the sea
B) So they would have fresh water
C) So they would have a lovely town
D) So they could have water balloon fights
Author’s Purpose
2. What was the author’s purpose for writing The Pilgrim’s First Thanksgiving?
A) To entertain the reader with a story about finding a new home
B) To inform the reader about the Pilgrim’s life in America
C) To persuade the reader to go to a new land
D) To teach the reader how to build a new town