Rucker Elementary

November 2-6

Important Dates

Week of November 2-6

Monday, November 2: Happy Monday!
Tuesday, November 3: Election Day! Vote! Father of Texas Day
Wednesday, November 4: 5th Grade Sky Ranch
Thursday, November 5: 5th Grade Sky Ranch
Friday, November 6: 5th Grade Sky Ranch

Second Grade Classroom Donations

Our second grade classrooms could use a little help restocking Kleenex, Clorox wipes, and hand sanitizer. If you’re able to donate any of these items, we would be so appreciative! Thank you for helping us keep our classrooms clean, healthy, and ready for learning. We truly appreciate your support!

Fidgets and Toys

Please encourage your second grader to refrain from bringing any toys or fidgets to school with them unless they have a documented need for them. They quickly become a distraction and can easily get broken, lost or stolen so it is best to keep these items safe at home. Thank you for partnering with us to minimize distractions at school.

Learning Targets

This week we will:

ELAR - We will generate questions about a topic of interest. We will use nonfiction text features to find and justify information. We will compose a nonfiction text to inform the audience about a topic of interest.
Phonics- Contractions
Math- Composing and Decomposing 2D shapes. Naming polygons.
Science- We will discuss force and motion. We will explain how two objects colliding can change the shape, position, and direction of objects. We will discuss hard and soft pushes. Sound is caused by vibrations! How we use sound in everyday life. Loud sounds and soft sounds. Changing sounds.
Social Studies- We will identify the main functions of government: to provide security, safety, and order. State government. Federal Government. Review of good citizens and their role in their government. Historical figures: Irma Rangel, Thurgood Marshall, Chester Nez, and Navajo Code Talkers. Characteristics of a good leader.

Dual Language Only

SLAR- Research and Nonfiction writing
➧➧Fonética: Las palabras con r, rr

Class Schedule

Hayes/ Kuehn Schedule

West/ Salinas Schedule

Flores/ Rivera Schedule

Take Home Practice

Blending Lines

You may have noticed blending lines in your child's green take home folder. These blending lines illustrate the skill we are working on in phonics this week. The blending lines are a great way for students to practice decoding words. Blending lines are a strategic and systematic way for students to attend to and practice a newly introduced phonics skill before they begin reading a decodable passage or story with the same skill. Students practice applying the newly learned pattern in isolation and then in text.

Students will likely highlight the sound for the week already on their page. In the example above, they could've highlighted the silent e at the end of the word. For this week's blending line we will be working on VCE words. Highlighting the e reminds students that the vowel will say its name.

When students are ready, they will segment the sounds in the word. For example, the first word, name has the following sounds /n/ /A/ /m/ and then blend the sounds together to say the word name. This continues until the entire line has been read. As students become more familiar, they can read the words for fluency practice.

Click to See How To Practice Blending Lines