Ms.Penford and Mrs.Sharma's Grade Two Class 2025-2026

Phonics: Signal Vowels -When followed by E, I, and Y, C spells /s/ and G spells /j/ - The 'signal vowels' signal, or tell us, that something will be different in a word -c /s/: When c is followed by an A,O or U it makes the /k/ sound When c is followed by E, I or Y it makes the /s/ sound -g/j/: when G is followed by an A, O, or U it makes the /g/ sound  -When G is followed by E,I or Y it makes the /j/ sound High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  watch, far, real, almost, let, above, girl, sometimes, mountain, cut Measurement- Lengths of Yarn -We first measure estimate the length of pieces of yarn and then determine the measurement using counters - We discussed the differences between yarn lengths, as well as the differences between our estimates and the actual measurements   Animal Res...

Consequences -This week we have been talking about consequences -Consequences are the good and bad things that happen because of something that you do -Pretend that you need to tell someone else how to handle it when they get in trouble -What would you tell them to do or not to do? "Don't do it again because you might get in more trouble." "Learn from your mistakes." "You should not do that again or you may get in more trouble." "Show respect to elders and don't talk back again." "Accept the consequences." "Listen to the adult and what they said." "If you accidentally hurt someone and they are crying you should apologize." Phonics: -The Graphemes EW, EU, and UE spell /yu/ ; OU spells /u/  -OU is another way to spell /u/.  We know OU spells /ow/ as in shout.  Sometimes, OU can also spell /u/ as in soup and group -EW spells /yu/ at the end of a word like spew and nephew -UE spells /yu/ at the end of a word like...

  High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  sea, began, grow, took, river, four, carry, state, once, book Phonics:  The grapheme EAR can spell /ear/ -One way to spell /air/ is EAR like in bear -EAR can also spell a different sound.  Sometimes EAR spells /ear/ like in hear -EAR usually comes at the end of a word like in near and dear. We also learned 4 lesson common ways of spelling the long a sound:  - AIGH - EI - EA - EIGH Life Cycle of a Plant -In science this week we are learning about the life cycle of a plant -We learned about all of the different stages involved (seed, germination, seedling, flower, fruit, seed, tree, cone, fruit) -We have planted our own seeds and we are excited to observe them go through the different stages! Subtraction with Regrouping Using Base Ten - ...

  High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:  important, until, children, side, feet, car, mile, night, walk, white Phonics: -ar, -or /er/ & -air, -ear -are /air/ -The graphemes AR and OR can spell /er/ at the end of two-syllable words (i.e. doctor, author, dollar and nectar) - The graphemes -air, -ear and -are can all spell /air/ Our Chicks Have Arrived! -We came into the classroom on Monday morning to discover that 4 chicks have hatched and one more is making its way out of the egg! -We noticed that:  -they get really sleepy quickly and then they get up -they get up and play and crawl all over each other -they fall over easily -stepping in the egg shell -they cuddle together -they are trying to help the one to hatch -trying to stand up Oopsies -We have been playing a fun game called O...