Friday, May 14, 2010

It's all over!!!

Soccer, Cub Scouts and Sparks are over until Spring.  I can say I am so glad.  Now we could relax for a few weeks until the summer activities start again.

We had our last Soccer game this past Wednesday.  The awards were given out and then we had an ice cream party.

The coaches were so kind to give all the boys their own adidas sports bag. 
The trophy he just received.
He has been playing Soccer for the past three seasons.  He loves his collection of tropies. 
 
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

The second set of words for second grade

Yesterday I posted about all the second grade words The Cisco Kid will have to learn during 2010 -2011 School year. Now these are the sight and vocabulary words he will have to know for 2010-2011. There are a good portion of these words he has had this year as spelling or sight words.  I like the strategy they are using to teach them what type of words they are. He won’t be hit with an unfamiliar word and then try to remember if it is a homophone, consonant, double consonant or consonant cluster.

I have also found the testing format for the following.

VOCABULARY & COMPREHENSION
Theme 1’s spelling will be to know how to spell the word. I will say the word, use it in a sentence and repeat the word.
Theme 2’s spelling will be to spell the word correctly and use the word in a simple sentence. I will give the word and meaning. Only the spelling word will be graded.
Theme 3’s spelling will be to spell the word and to know the word meaning.
Theme 4’s spelling will be to spell the word and to use the word in a more complex sentence. Only spelling and usage will be graded.
Theme 5 & 6 spelling will be to spell the word and use the word in a complex sentence with capitalization and punctuation included in the grade.
Vocabulary and Comprehension is also tested on Fridays. Vocabulary will be tested according to matching word to meaning and fill in the blank. Comprehension is tested on story recall. There will be two extended answer questions where sentence structure is also graded.

Other lessons they will cover.
Language Arts Skills:
The Art Lesson:
~Author’s View point
~word families
~Is it a sentence?
~Irregular verbs

Homophone
ceiling
sealing
heard
herd
heal
heel
days
daze
forth
fourth
clothes
close
chalk
chock
add
ad
too
to
two
sell
cell
cellar
seller
blue
blew
bear
bare
ant
aunt
principal
principle
stationary
stationery
fourth
forth
clothes
close
whether
weather
presents
presence
vain
vein
dents
dense
time
thyme
rein
reign

Double consonants
across
less
pill
egg
skill
mess
grass
will
well
hill
off
bell
all
add
tall
attention
village
valley
traffic
stiff
scribble
missile
paddle
middle
hollow
drizzle
dribble
cuddle
compass
cripple
anniversary
village
valley
traffic
stiff
scribble
assistance
missile
paddle
metallic
middle
hollow
drizzle
dribble
cuddle
compass
attention
assumption
cripple
current
squiggle
windowsill
village
surround
glitter
raccoon
hollow
happen
tattered

hard and soft g,c
brag
refrigerator
pencil
germ
lace
pancake
gate
gang
center
cent
cage
collaboration
alligator
silence
satisfactory
refrigerator
gypsy
imaginary
guess
direction
country
cereal
angel
collaboration

VcV(e) words
ate
size
side
shake
made
line
late
hide
have
give
same
bite
beside
write

Words with th,wh,sh,ch sounds
both
whistle
whip
teeth
which
wash
teach
sheep
lunch
when
then
dish
chase
catch
than
chief
screech
checkers
sheriff
whether
whisper
whine
whimper
whiff
thought
thorax
smooth
shiver
peach
whinny

Consonant clusters
blister
grease
glimpse
scripture
slippers
slogan
stairs
built
wrinkle
profit
station
climb
closet
drizzle
drowsy
toast
prize
scarf
wrench
sleepier
brave
storm
swim
space
lost
trip
stone
step
snail
next
nest
glad
flat
club
swat

Words with ow, ou sound
brown
frown
should
mouse
town
house
found
how
cow
could
clown
sour

qu words
queen
quiz
quarter
quart
quake
quail
quite
quest
quit
quiet
quick
quote

Word endings: ness, less, ful, ly

colorful
badly
careless
costly
coolness
fearful
kindly
stiffness
weekly
daily
gladness
newly
revengeful
heartless
faithfulness
gratefully
cautiously
viciously
forgetfulness
thoughtless


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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

2nd grade words

Now that it is coming close to the end of the school year and first grade for the Cisco Kid is just about over, I can start to gather all my information about second grade. I gather as much information as possible so during the summer I could get the Cisco Kid familiar with his new work load. The list below are the spelling words he will be tought. In first grade he only had to learn how to spell approximately 200 words plus another hundred sight words. Just these spelling words below are almost four hundred. I will post the second list of words tomorrow. What a difference between first and second grade. I here third grade is much worse.

we, be, eat, tree, clean ,keep, please, feel, mean, read, the, people, stream, steep, all, add, tall, braid, mail, great, pay, tray, trail, hay, train, they, snail, sail, rain, across, less, pill, egg, skill, mess, grass, will, well, hill, off, bell, play, nail, subway, both, whistle, whip, teeth, which, wash, teach, sheep, lunch, when, then, dish, chase, catch, than, who's, we'd, I'd, won't, hadn't, he'll, she'll, let's, doesn't, shouldn't, weren't, where's, that's, here's, mustn't, young, second, long, wrong, friendly, stupendous, puppy, baby, lucky, happy, very, lady, funny, silly, many, only, personality, extraordinary, around, towel , sour, frown, should, mouse, town, house, found, how, cow, could, clown, brown, ouch, balloon, choose, proofread, ooze, coordinate, microorganism, moonbeam, rooster, googol, loose, boat, cold, road, blow, gold, old, load, snow, hold, most, toe, do, goal, rainbow, soap, odorous, photogenic, loudly, angrily, weekly, slowly, bravely, safely, loyally, gratefully, really, interestingly, curiously, boxes, ants, frogs, buses, cities, stamps, shoes, glasses, blocks, lunches, bananas, babies, scratches, parties, watches, tomatoes, vacations, car, smart, arm, park, yard, part, barn, hard, party, farm, are, warm, department, carpet, card, barbeque, argumentative, feet, king, thank, hand, sing, send, think, bring, bang, end, thing, grand, address, squiggle, scatter, lesson, glitter, dollar, current, tattered, squabble, surround, windowsill, glossary, raccoon, buffet, cellar, happen, hollow, riddle, passenger, close, principal, principle, rein, stationary, stationery, presence, thyme, presents, fourth, clothes, dense, time, forth, reign, vain, vein, weather, dents, aim, strainer, straight, quaint, highway, praise, freight, eight, daisy, crayon, break, birthday, weigh, belong, blink, chunk, rung, shrunk, blend, sprinag, strong, prank,cling, clung, fling, kink, mink, plank, browse, wound, trout, tower, sprout, scour, mound, crowded, powder, ground, fountain, voucher, scowl, couch, drought, heavy, dirty, sorry, trophy, celery, gypsy, sporty, country, cemetery, category, chief, screech, checkers, sheriff, whether, whisper, whine, whimper, whiff, thought, thorax, smooth, shiver, peach, whinny, attention, village, valley, traffic, stiff, scribble, missile, paddle, middle, drizzle, dribble, cuddle, compass, cripple, cheese, flea, cheap, sneaker, squeak, beehive, beaver, between, sneeze, reason, least, field, piece, belief, arch, scar, charm, marble, carve, target, garden, farther, sharpen, apartment, cartwheel, quart, barge, quarter, archery, throw, pillow, poster, elbow, phone, oatmeal, wonder, coast, stone, rowboat, homeland, coed, rodeo, violin, chrome, quart,  owner, collar, lurch, solar, snarl, hamburger, grammar, favor, lunar, motor, mayor, author, director, curl, spur, slammed, spelling, dressing, chipped, forbidding, zigzagging, telling, recalling, tapping, flapping, chopping, digging, trout, heavy, whine, loudly

Monday, May 10, 2010

After the long cold winter we could finally????

This weekend was the first weekend it was warm enough to swim. Our pool area is screened in and I planted so many plants in there that we have some living creatures that like to take refuge in the rocks and plants. They are safe from their natural predators. We had the screen put around the pool because I am not a fan of flying bugs and creepy crawly things. Yes!!! I live in Florida and that is what Florida is about, but I do everything I could to stay away from them.

Saturday morning the Chief and the Cisco Kid got in the pool and as they were playing the Chief was taking baby frogs out of the pool. I don't know how these frogs live in this chlorine water!!! After all the little frogs were out he saw this great big reptile sitting on top of my rock like he owned the place. The Chief tried to catch it and it took refuge behind one of the rocks. a few minutes later it came back out and took its place back on the rock. This type of lizard was not afraid. It's called a Skink and they are aggressive. Now I like lizards only because they eat spiders and I hate spiders worse than lizards. In all the years I have lived here I have never seen a skink that was this big. It was a good 8 to 10 inches long. The Chief finally got rid of it and no more than five minutes later we saw another one. Now I was freaking out. How many of these big aggressive things are in my screen!!! I told the Chief if he can’t get these out, I am going to get a big bird and let it loose. The Chief got both of them and they were happily swimming.


 



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