Week of February 27th

The "Walk of Fame" was such a success! 

Thanks for all of your hard work at home! They kiddos really enjoyed sharing all the information they had learned...

We're gearing up for three full weeks of school before spring break! Here's a look at our goals and objectives for the week...

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER FORMATION PROJECT
What scares you? This week we will reexamine the virtue COURAGE as we study some of Jesus’s miracles, specifically Jesus walking on water. Courage is God’s power for you to overcome fear. As we explore this miracle in Matthew 14, we will think about how we need to face our fears as we boldly talk to others about Jesus! Ask yourselves this “big question”: How do you find courage even in the most terrifying circumstances?

READING SKILLS and STRATEGIES
We've really been working hard on comprehension as a class and in small group "book club" instruction. This week we will revisit a challenging skill called making inferences. When a reader makes an inference, he makes decisions, or draws conclusions about a story based on the clues in the text, the pictures, and his schema (what he already knows). Making inferences can help the reader better understand the characters and events in the story.

PHONICS and SPELLING 
This week your second graders will identify and spell words with variant vowel sounds (au and aw). Variant vowels are vowel sounds that are controlled by the letters surrounding them. This can be confusing! Remember to practice these words with your children this week!

LIST ONE

pause	launch	fault	fawn	hawk
crawl	draw	law	jaw	raw

LIST TWO

pause	launch	fault	fawn	hawk
crawl	cause	lawn	yawn	thaw

BONUS – inference 

GRAMMAR and WRITING 

Our grammar focus will be on contractions this week. Although we talk about and use contractions in our writing all the time, we will zone in more on what each contraction stands for and learning the appropriate place for the apostrophe. 

Also, I can't wait for you to start seeing some of our book reviews in the hallways! We're about halfway through the March Book Madness book selections and voting starts this week (March 1st). Thankfully, we have an entire week to cast our ballots. 

 NEWS and NOTES

• Reading Logs DUE Tuesday, February 28th
• Our last "Coin Collection" for our CCLS-U students will be in March
• SPRING BREAK March 20th

BLESSINGS ON YOUR WEEK!