Our next spelling lesson will be the Week of January 4th. The first two lessons in January are traditionally difficult ones.  Here are the words for Lesson Sixteen:

Regular Words:
find   mind   right   light   night   fighting   high
boat   float   goat   throat   own    grown   show   throw 

Challenge Words:
prACTice   cHALLenge   strength   imPORTant   excited

Bonus Words:
suCCeSS   successFUL   lEARning   efFORT 

 

 

PRETEST AND PRACTICE DICTATION ON WEDNESDAY (third school day)

SPELLING AND DICTATION TEST ON FRIDAY 

 

You can go to Spelling City to practice this week's lesson. It has been updated.

 

 (Bonus words do not count towards the spelling test grade.  Everyone must try to spell them, however.)

 

Each week an optional wordsearch is added to our website.  It is one way you can earn an extra happy gram!

Go to spellingcity.com   click on student   search for Ellen Singsank   click on Lesson Sixteen... CHECK IT OUT! 

You can practice your words, test your words, print  handwriting practice sheets, and play games with your words!

 

OUR WEEKLY SPELLING ROUTINE:

 

On Monday, our homework will be to write each of our words (Regular, Challenge, and Bonus Words) three times each in our Homework Notebook.  (On Mondays, will write them together in class. We're always looking for patterns and little words within the big words). It might be FUN to copy each word in three different colors (use colored pencils, crayons, or fine tipped markers)! We usually work together in our spellers (new to Second Graders) on Tuesdays.

 

On Tuesday, our homework will be to make up eight sentences using, at least, one spelling word in each sentence.  Trace or underline the spelling words that you have used in your sentences. 

Two sentences will be telling sentences.  For example:  My sister and I like to PLAY with our cousins.

Two sentences will be asking sentences.  For example:  Did your dad help you build that FORT?

Two sentences will be commands.  For example:  PAY for that toy at the front of the store.

Two sentences will show exitement!  For example:  We had the best time at CAMP!

 

Our pretest and practice dictation will be on the third day of the school week.  It's usually a Wednesday, but occasionally it's a Thursday because we've had a holiday on Monday. We go over our spelling pretest and our practice sentences together. We can use a red pencil, pen, or fine tip marker to fix our mistakes.  Mrs. S. tries to look over our H.W. Notebooks  to see just which 256 Kids are her careful checkers.

 

On Thursday, our homework is to study our spelling words and our practice dictation sentences so that we'll be ready for Friday's test. New sentences are also added to the dictation test.  Sometimes we even have to write our own sentences using our spelling words.  Mrs. S. might ask you to write a telling sentence about camp or an asking sentence using the word play, a command sentence using the word bed or a sentence showing excitement using the word drive.

 

Spelling always starts out to be one of the hardest subjects in Second Grade, but after a few weeks, Second Graders are usually AWESOME spellers!