Dear Parents,

How are you all doing? I hope you all had a restful weekend. Here is a quick look at our 13^th week.

Read-a-thon

It’s with heartfelt joy that I thank you all for supporting our class during the read-a-thon. We were all so proud when the headmaster asked our entire class to stand during our assembly on Monday, as he announced class 2A as the winner of the book drive. We ended up with over 70 books in total. I know the read-a-thon is over, but if you still want to donate books to our class, please, feel free to visit the sign-up genius for book donations.

LANGUAGE ARTS  

SPALDING – We will continue with our spelling list this week. We have slowed down the spelling pace again because we have now started our second grade-spelling list. Please, review homework as they come home.

List 1: : glass, party, upon, two, twin, twice, twelve, twenty, between, they

List 2: would, could, should, any, many, city, only, where, week, weak

READING – READING STRATEGY: Our reading strategy this week will be visualizing. We will do a comprehension quiz on drawing conclusion and making inferences this week. We will continue with chapters 7 & 8 in The Boxcar Children this week.

POETRY: Title: Our poem this month is “Merry Autumn” by Charles Dickens. Encourage your scholars to keep practicing.

SAYING: “Be true to what you stand for. If you're going to teach others, you should first live out those truths yourself” .We will appreciate it if you use it at home because children retain sayings when they engage in it through meaningful use.

           

GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY – Students will review adjectives and verbs. As I prepare our scholars for diagraming, I have actually started having them identify parts of speech in sentences. I am amazed at how well they are doing with this.

WRITING – As we work with Writing With Ease, students will continue to develop narration, dictation and copy work skills. As the narration and dictation homework goes home every week, we are asking that you help us pay attention to proof reading their work. I really want to suggest that you encourage your scholars to write a sentence every day, and have them look back and correct their mistakes. I really want to create awareness to writing this quarter.

LEVELED READERS

Please, encourage your scholars to take their readings seriously. There are three pages of reflection and three books. They are expected to log in one book per page. Please, remind them to write the title of the text on the page they work on. We have seen some excellent writing skills thus far. By the beginning of second semester, we will start sending home chapter books.

MATH

We will begin measuring weight using grams, pounds, and ounces this week. We will continue to weigh objects and food items using a scale as well. Please, encourage scholars to help you weigh food items at the grocery store.

SCIENCE

We will begin our new unit on animal life cycle. We will discuss the meaning of Life cycle – The sequence of development stages

Birth –Began as an immature member of a species

Growth – potential to become mature member of a species

Reproduction – an organism reaches full maturity and can now have offspring

Death- final stage

HISTORY

  We will began a new unit on Modern Japan on Friday. We discussed the Geography of Japan. This week, we will focus on what makes Japan a modern country, and the traditions that are still practiced now in Japan

VIRTUE

Courage

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen..” – Winston Churchill

Overcome Struggle with HEART

The quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face difficulty and danger with firmness and nobility.

Announcements

·      Our winter concert is on Dec 4^th. It will begin at 5:30pm.  Please, read a letter from Mrs. Kaye on my blog.

·      We will have guided reading only on Wednesday this week.

Have a great week.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Toyin and Ms. Peterson