Name ______May 19-23

Second Grade ELA/Social Studies

Peek at the Week

Ask questions

Reminders:

  • Parents please write time and initial each box for reading and check boxes for spelling.
  • Choose one spelling activity to complete each night with all 15 words. Look on back.

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Reading Log Name______

Read at least 15-20 minutes every night and record below. Happy Reading!! 

Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Minutes Read
Parent initials / Minutes Read
Parent initials / Minutes Read
Parent initials / Minutes Read
Parent initials / Have a fun and safe weekend!
Keep on reading!

Here are activities for your child to choose when practicing spelling words each night. Use one side of a paper each night. Turn in all spelling homework every Friday. Check the boxes of activities completed.

  • Write or type words 3 times each.
  • Rainbow write (write words using different colors)
  • Make up a story using spelling words
  • Write words in sentences.
  • Create a poem using spelling words.
  • Window spelling (use dry erase marker and write words on a window)
  • Ransom words (cut out letters from newspapers, magazines, etc to make spelling words and glue on paper)
  • Graffiti Spelling-write the words in different ways: squiggly, bubbled, dots, jagged, etc.
  • Record spelling out words on voice recorder app on smart phone and play back to listen to self spell out and say words
  • Create a word search puzzle or crossword puzzle
  • Pyramid Words (please write all spelling words)
  • Hop-n-Spell (hop up and down as you say each letter in a word to spell the word)

As you read, please answer only 2 of the following questions this week. Answers to the questions can come from the same story or different stories. Write answers on paper attached.

  1. What were the setting, character, problem, and/or resolution of the story you read?
  2. Choose a character from a story and describe their feelings, emotions, or attitude.
  3. Find a word you didn’t know, look up the definition, and write its definition.
  4. What is one theme or message that you understood from the text you read?
  5. What questions do you still have or want to know about your book?
  6. What connections did you make? (text to self, text to text, or text to world)
  7. Sequence the story. Describe what happened in the beginning, middle, and end.

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