Week of Dec. 10 - 14

Spelling - This week we are concentrating on patterns for long a.

1-day, play, ate, late, plate, rain, again, face, place
2- day, play, ate, place, main, late, race, again, say, plate, face, rain
3- against, unsafe, contain, replace, holiday, Tuesday, forgave, tray, hair, mainly

Math
This week for our first strategy for math facts we are focusing on learning the "doubles" by memory. By doubles we mean 1+1, 2+2, 3+3 etc to 10. Once your child has memorized these, then work on recognizing the reverse in subtraction- so 10-5=?  , 8-4=?  and so on. I will let you know when we move on to the next strategy. It is so  helpful to children to know these facts by memory. You can also practice the facts visually by rolling two dice and having them add them up, or play WAR with playing cards-flip two cards up and then add. When playing WAR try taking out the face cards and higher numbers first. In Grade 2 we are only expected to memorize the facts up to 10 although we still study strategies to add higher facts as well.