Rucker Elementary

October 19-23

Important Dates

Week at a Glance

Monday, October 19: Texas Roadhouse PTO Spirit Night
Tuesday, October 20: PINK OUT DAY! Dress all in PINK to support breast cancer awareness month Happy Birthday, Ms. Salinas!
Wednesday, October 21: Happy Wednesday!
Thursday, October 22: Happy Thursday!
Friday, October 23: Happy Friday!

Coming up:

Picture retakes October 29

Allergy Aware

Just a friendly reminder that we have several severe food allergies in our grade level. For more information about food allergies at school please click here. Thank you for helping to keep our students safe.

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 discuss literary fiction. We will discuss the plot of a story including the conflict and resolution and retell a story. We will compose a summary or a story. Author's purpose for writing. We will discuss the features and characteristics of nonfiction text. We will discuss text structures. Common and proper nouns.
Phonics- Closed and Open Syllables Review- multisyllabic words.
Math- We will read the time on a digital and analog clock to the minute. We will distinguish between am and pm.
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!
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.

Dual Language Only

SLAR- Nonfiction Text Features
➧Fonética: Fonética: Las palabras con b, v

Schedule Change

🚨 Please note that second grade's lunch time is now from 12:00-12:35. 🥪

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.

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