Oct. 24-27

Looking Ahead to Next Week:
Memory: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23

Spelling: ope/ord: rope, hope, mope, slope, cope, word, open, sword, chord, afford

Phonics: Vowel Teams: Long I

Grammar: Plural Nouns

Reading: Problem and Solution

Math: Test Wednesday covering our math facts (sums of 10 and review facts), as well as material discussed recently in class and on homework. We will have math centers next week as well to review skills covered so far.

Science: We will be finishing up our unit on how earth changes quickly and slowly. The kids will be using the app Snapguide to demonstrate their learning from this unit. 

Important News and Information:
-Behavior logs were not sent home this week due to Parent Teacher Conferences. I will begin sending them home weekly again next Friday:) 

-Wednesday, Nov. 2nd is Muffins for Moms beginning at 7:00am in the church basement. You are welcome to eat breakfast with your child and join us for chapel at 8:00!

-No school on Tuesday, Nov. 8th.

Who ya gonna call? Drugbusters!
Decorations for Red Ribbon Week

We learned about primary and secondary colors in art this week

Crazy Hair Day

Jr. High Students presented some Red Ribbon Week information to our class. Choose to be healthy!

We did an AWESOME project with Ms. Buerges' 5th grade class on Friday. The 5th graders taught the 2nd graders how to make scribble bots. A simple robot machine made with a battery, a small motor, two wires, markers, a plastic cup, and tape. They had a blast!

Oct. 17-21

Looking Ahead to Next Week:
Memory: Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
Spelling: ide/eat:

ride, side, wide, slide, hide, beat, heat, seat, meat, treat

Phonics: vowel teams Ee
Grammar: Proper Nouns review of towns, cities, states, and titles
Reading: Plot
Math: No test next week
Science: How does the earth change quickly?
Writing: We are going to do a project involving the editing and revising step of the writing process

Important News and Information:
-Today marked the end of 1st quarter. Grade cards will be given at parent teacher conferences next Thursday evening and Friday morning. 2nd quarter begins 10/24. I will conference with each student next week, and together, we will create a new AR goal for 2nd quarter.
-We will not have school next Friday 10/28 for parent teacher conferences. Looking forward to meeting with all of you!
-Because there's no school on Friday, spelling and memory tests will take place on Thursday.

Next week is Red Ribbon Week! Here are the dress up days for the week:

• Red Ribbon Dress Days Oct. 24-28

*Regular dress code applies to all dress days except for the special day’s theme

• Monday:
• “Don’t Hug a Drug”
• Bring your favorite stuffed animal, pillow, or small blanket

• Tuesday:
• “Doing Drugs Won’t Make You a Superhero”
• Wear a superhero shirt and/or cape

• Wednesday:
• “Stand Up Against Drugs”
• Make your hair stand up crazy

• Thursday:
• “Hide Your Identity From Drugs”
• Wear sunglasses

• Friday:
• No School P/T Conferences

-Wednesday, Nov. 2nd is Muffins for Moms beginning at 7am in the church basement

-No school on Tuesday, Nov. 8th

Buddy Reading

Reviewing different types of sentences

Field Trip to the Art Museum

Packing bags for moms to be

Eating a snack at our Harvest Party

Pumpkin Bowling

Making Pumpkins

10/10-10/11

Looking Ahead to Next Week:
Memory: He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world.                     

1 John 2:2

Spelling: ine/ice:

fine, mine, whine, line, vine, slice, mice, nice, dice, ice

Grammar: Review of Types of Sentences
Phonics: Long A sound Vowel teams
Reading: We will do our first whole class book of the year- Eerie Elementary!
Math: Test Friday
Science: How Can Earth Change Slowly?  We will also have a test over various vocabulary from what we've been learning the past two weeks: core, mantle, crust, globe, fresh water, and salt water. A study guide will go home on Monday and we will have the test on Wednesday.
Writing: Write to Inform about a pumpkin

Important News and Information:
-Next Friday marks the end of first quarter. Keep encouraging your kids to read so we can all reach our AR goals!
-Next Friday is also our field trip to the Art Museum and our class Harvest Party.
     -For our field trip, permission slips must be signed and returned to school. Please do so by Mon. 10/17. Have your child wear their red Zion t-shirt and regular uniform bottoms, and also bring a peanut free lunch that we will eat in our classroom when we return.
 
-Wed. Oct. 12th kicked off TJ's Pizza sales. Sale sheets are due at school by Thursday, Oct. 27th. Delivery will be on Thursday, Nov. 17th.
-We are still collecting super heroes for the Albritton Family!

We marched around our Jericho walls today, just like the Israelites did

Reading together

We did math centers this week where we practiced concepts we've recently learned such as fact families

and Pennies and Dimes

Working on Moby Max- our differentiated math program that our class uses

10/10-10/11

Looking Ahead to Next Week:
Memory: None
Spelling: High Frequency Words #1

over, new, sound, take, only, little, work, know, place, years, live, me, back, give, most, very, after, thing, our, just, name, good, sentence, man, think

These are words that second graders should be able to read and spell after first quarter. We  will test their spelling of these words on Tuesday.  We took a pre-pre-test on those words today. These are in your child's Friday folder if you would like to see what they need to practice. 

Phonics and Grammar: Review of long and short vowel sounds, commas in a date
Reading: Setting
Math: Review Centers
Science: What is Earth?
Writing: Writing Letters

Important News and Information:
-Our first field trip of the year is coming up on Friday, Oct. 21. We will be going to the St. Louis Art Museum. A permission slip was sent home in Friday folders. In order for the kids to be able to go on the field trip, this permission slip must be signed and returned by Monday, Oct. 17th. 
-Parent Teacher conference scheduled times were sent home in Friday folders. Please sign and return these to school as soon as possible.
-Also, in Friday folders is information about a service project we will be doing with our partner class, Mrs. Horn's PDO class. We will be collecting superheroes to donate to Friends of Kids with Cancer in memory of Drew Albritton. We will also make cards together later on this month to send along with the superheroes.
-We do not have school next Wednesday through Friday as the teachers will be in Grand Rapids for a conference.

We discovered that about 3/4 of the Earth is made up of water, and that most of that water is salt water. 

Playing verb charades

Practicing our vocabulary words for the week

Trash Crew

We had several kids decide to start a "Trash Crew." They spent several of their recesses picking up trash around the playground. What a great example of a servant heart! 

Cheering for the cross country runners on a great season