2nd Grade News
(Scroll Down for Recorder, Handbells, and Tone Chimes Announcements)
December 1 - 5, 2008
Class News:
Monday -- Please return signed report card envelope.
Tuesday -- Test over Northeastern States
Wednesday - Library Day
Friday - COS (10am-11am) Julia Kirkelie and Maci Cozart
Pictures - Pictures - Pictures
It's time to collect pictures for the yearbook. If you have any class pictures that you can e-mail to me or send me a copy on CD it would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
Bible: Esther is Unselfish
Bible Verse (Due Friday, Dec. 5) Esther 4:16
"Go gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish I perish."
Spelling: Lesson 13 (Test - Friday, December 5)
Don't forget to keep studying words from the previous lessons if they gave your child trouble. They will show up again in Lesson 18!
| Lesson 13 | Lesson 14 | Lesson 15 | Lesson 16 | Lesson 17 | Lesson 18 |
| train | car | air | were | family | Review Lessons 13-17 |
| plays | farm | where | bird | baby | |
| paint | barn | line | purple | every | |
| today | yard | their | first | only | |
| say | far | bear | word | very | |
| stay | arm | eye | circle | penny | |
| rain | part | fine | work | ready | |
| pray | hard | like | color | holy | |
| pay | card | write | under | any | |
| way | dark | fire | water | story | |
| stayed | party | care | world | easy | |
| birthday | large | beside | heard | city | |
| praise | heart | while | third | study | |
Reading: "Owl Face"; "Be Wise About Owls"; Reading Comp. 9; Skill Station
Language: Chapter 6: Writing Poetry
- Writing Poems that Rhyme
- Couplets: Planning and Drafting
- Couplets: Revising and Proofreading
Couplets: Publishing
Writing Poems with Shape
Handwriting: Manuscript skills; cursive "P", "Q", "R"; "S" review all previously learned letters.
Math:
Eleven Subtraction Family
Telling Time to Five Minutes
Carrying to the Thousand's Place
- Math Test 11 -- Wednesday, December 3.
The Scoop on Math Facts -- We are working towards an ice-cream party with our Speed Drills. Each week I will check the Speed Drills and any student who earns a 90% or better will earn an item for their ice-cream sundae. We will start by earning the bowl, spoon, and napkin. Then we will begin earning ice-cream scoops and toppings! We will run this for the next two 6-weeks which will put our ice-cream celebration party in January,
Social Studies:
Western States: Review TX, OK, UT, NM, CO, AZ, WY, MT, ID, WA, OR, NV, CA, AK, HI
Southern States: Review AR, LA, AL, MS, FL, GA, NC, SC, TN, KY, VA
Northeastern States: Introduce Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania; Review WV, DE, MD, NJ, CT, RI, ME, NH, MA, VT, NY, PA
Test Over NE States - Tuesday, Dec. 2
Test will be the same format as in the past.
Unit 1: America, Our Home
Reminders:
After School Clubs
Fall Recital for Hand Bells, Tone Chimes, and Recorder -- Saturday, December 13 @ 10:00am
Clubs will meet the week of December 15-19.
Clubs will resume meetings after the Christmas Holidays the week of January 12th (a week after school goes back).
- Monday 3:30-4:30 pm - Drama (4th-7th grade)
- Monday 3:30-4:30 pm - Tonechimes (2nd - 4th grade)
- Tuesday 3:30-4:30 pm - Drama (K-3rd grade)
- Tuesday 3:30-4:30 pm - Handbells (4th-7th grade)
- Wednesday 3:30-4:30 pm - Art (2nd-7th grade)
- Thursday 3:30-4:30 pm - Recorder (K-3rd and 4th - 7th)
