Year 2 with Renee: English

Spelling:

Students will have 7 words to focus on based on their results from the Pre-Test, these words should also be written in their diaries. This lets you know what words they need to focus on for homework, and for their partner tests.

Term 4 Pre-Test Words:

bold font = challenge words (not all students are tested)
regular font = blend words
italic font = sight words

WEEK 1: 'ir'

bird, skirt, girl, circus, dirty, circle, thirsty, birthday, twirl, thirteen
space, every, behind, flying, under, want, knew, coming, number, yellow

WEEK 2: 'ai'

pain, tail, drain, gain, train, faint, paint, chain, trailer, again
fingernail, entertain, remain
left, ready, love, cool, box, kids, red, stay, kicked, gold

WEEK 3: 'ow'

town, brown, down, crowd, now, owl, frown, flower, tower, towel,
vowel, allowance, powerful
face, brown, goal, buy, bad, can’t, head, bit, say, scary

WEEK 4: 'i_e'

line, price, alive, fine, slice, spider, drive, slide, knife, size,

twice, recognize, umpire

lot, even, looking, sat, six, bus, puppy, ride, sunny, week

WEEK 5: 'a_e'

came, spade, late, wave, shade, blade, snake, brake, shake, whale,

strange, mistake, inhale

top, any, having, while, jumped, need, gone, used, hard, end

WEEK 6: 'ay'

tray, away, pay, say, Tuesday, pray, x-ray, spray, crayon, today

display, crayfish, playground

nothing, doing, open, pet, never, years, class,

WEEK 7: 'Christmas'

crib, star, elves, bells, tree, Santa, tinsel, wreath, Advent, carols,

Christmas, decorations, reindeer

few, front, than, stuff, hot, clothes, cold, same, I’ll, land

WEEK 8: 'Christmas 2'

manger, sleigh, Nativity, stocking, festive, pudding, hamper, donkey, wrapping, Christmas,

gold, frankincense, myrrh

sight words from own writing

WEEK 9 & 10: revision and final testing.

This is the Oxford 400 Word List (plus) that we use for spelling. http://au.oup.com/downloads/Education/Primary/Successful_Teacher/OWL%20PLUS%20LIST.pdf
Here are some spelling websites that can help students:
http://www.spellingcity.com/
http://www.kidsspell.com/
http://www.spinandspell.com/
http://www.abcya.com/first_grade_computers.htm
http://www.coolmath-games.com/1-word-games-01.html
http://www.vocabulary.co.il/second-grade-vocabulary-games/

BOOK WEEK:

Book week was a huge success. We had a dress up day where the students were able to parade around the school and show off their costumes. We got up on stage and showed the school what we were wearing. After we got to watch the Wakakirri performance. We read many books throughout the week that were shortlisted. We also had Year 2 activity rotations with the other classes. In our class we made cat masks based on the book 'Come Down, Cat'. In Mrs Barr's class the students made paper vikings based on 'The Last Viking' book. With Malia the students made rising daffodils which were based on 'That's Not a Daffodil' book. We also watched a perfomance about books, and got to go to the Book Fair which had a huge showcase of books for us to look at and buy.

Show and Tell:

Students always have such interesting stories to share with the class. Sometimes they even bring in some interesting items. Here are a few...

English Activities:

oustide writing spelling words in chalk

Making Paper Chains with Spelling words

Storybird:

http://storybird.com/

The newest craze. Storybird is a website where students are able to create their own stories online. They add pictures, create the story and share it to the class. The students LOVE this website, and the best bit is that you can see your stories on any computer, all you need to do is log on. I have set up the students with passwords/usernames, and these are written in their diaries and spelling pre-test books. To share their stories with others, students need to publish their work to the class library - see below.