Grade 2 Homework (Week 15): Distributed: Friday, December 10th Due: Friday, December 17th

1. Literacy: Read your leveled reading book aloud to your parents for 15-20 minutes per night. Remember to fill out your reading log. Turn in your Reading Log on Friday. 2. Spelling: Go to the Spelling City Website at: http://www.spellingcity.com/grade2bifs/ Then click on your Spelling List. Try one activity per night. There will be a spelling quiz on Friday. 3. Mad Minutes Ask your mom or dad to copy the subtraction worksheets which your teacher gave you before the winter break. Practice a different Mad Minute sheet about 3-4 nights per week depending on how much or how little practice you need. Be prepared for a 1 minute quiz on Thursday or Friday of every week. 4. Literacy: Using your home computer, go to the following link: http://padlet.com/wall/5in5egrom9 Follow
the instructions on the website and add in at least 1 creative story starter of the 4 types that we learned in class last week. The 4 types are: active beginnings, exclamations, thoughts or feelings and sound effects. 5. Mathletics: Log in and complete the following review activities: Measures: Using a Calendar Shapes: How many faces? How many edges? How many corners Spend 5-10 minutes per day playing Mathletics and practicing your addition/subtraction facts on higher levels.

Optional Bonus Homework: Math: Log into www.brainpopjr.com with this user name: bifses and password: brainpop. Watch a variety of Science videos and try the hard quiz for each one. Print out your quiz results or email them to your teacher. For every perfect score on a quiz or quiz with only 1 wrong, you may receive 2 stickers.
Spelling: Try to write a one page letter to any friend in 2G or 2R using all of your spelling words. Underline your spelling words and use them properly. You cannot use more than 2 spelling words in a single sentence. PYP: create a video of you giving a tour around your house to show your winter celebration decorations, show any symbols, talk about the special colors on display, the meaning of the holiday, special food that may be in your house related to this holiday, any special clothes and how you plan to enjoy this celebration. The video can be for Christmas, New Years, Hanukah, or another upcoming winter celebration.

Literacy: Add in all 4 types of story starters to the padlet wall on this link: http://padlet.com/wall/5in5egrom9 Math: Create and design your own Power Point or Keynote about Perimeter and Area.