Grade 2 Homework (Week 14): Distributed: Friday, December 6th Due: Friday, December 13th

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 addition worksheets which your teacher gave you recently. 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/PYP: We have started letter writing in class. On Friday, December 6 th, we will do a drawing of 2G and 2R names. After you draw the name of another student in Grade 2, please make them a Christmas and/or New Years card with a 6+ sentence letter inside. Remember to use a greeting, salutation and follow the letter format that we are working on in class. Try to include the following PYP UOI words in our letter: symbols, celebration and decorations. 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.

Math: In class we have been learning about 3D shapes. Using construction paper try to build your own cubes, cuboids, prisms or pyramids. Share them with you classmates this week and tell how many faces, edges and vertices each shape that you build has. Math: Create and design your own Power Point or Keynote about Perimeter and Area.