Monday, September 4, 2017

Week of September 5th

Happy Tuesday! I don't know about you, but I'm going to have to remind myself that it's NOT MONDAY all day. :) I hope many of you were able to enjoy an extra day off AND the beautiful weather God provided! We had a great time at the Klug house. 

Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedules last week to come to the class and learn about second grade. The children really enjoyed having guests!  



CHRISTIAN CHARACTER FORMATION PROJECT
For our Christian Character Formation Project this week we study the story of young David facing Goliath (1 Samuel 17:25-50) to learn about how we can overcome a giant in our life. We focus on the virtue of COURAGE, which is “God’s power for you to overcome fear.” This week we explore how we can have courage and faith like David, able to face our giants with confidence. You are encouraged to have conversations regarding David’s courage and faith, God’s protection, and how we can live with this same courage and confidence in our daily lives.

PHONICS and SPELLING
Well, we did it! We made it through our first spelling test! After much thought and research, I decided to have the kiddos take their tests using an app called SpellingCity. Each week I will import YOUR Child's list to their account. This allows them to play games with their words throughout the week, and then on Thursdays the app actually gives each child a test. It reads their words, and puts the words in a sentence. Besides some basic log-in confusion, week one went pretty well! 

This week's word study will focus on "short a" and "long a" with the "a-consonant-e" spelling pattern. We will still have the test on Thursday even with the shortened week.

READING SKILLS and STRATEGIES 
We are learning so much about "what good readers do" and learning from each other is the best! Last week many children made Text to Self connections during their reading...
This week we will continue to discuss the connections we have with books, and how that helps our comprehension. We'll look at other ways to connect called "text to text" and "text to world", and we will study how understanding the characters feelings can also aid in connecting and comprehending.
GRAMMAR
This week's mentor sentence comes from the book Officer Buckle and Gloria. We'll look further at punctuation and common verses proper nouns. 
Here's a link to the story if you'd like to hear it with your child this week! It's a good one! 

WRITING 
Your young authors have really taken off with their personal narratives. This week we will notice more about author's craft with the book Owl Moon, and we'll try writing in more powerful ways. This is Charlie in "share chair" showing everyone how he stretched out his small moment story.

NEWS and NOTES 
  • Friday, September 15th NO SCHOOL - teacher professional development 
  • Tuesday, September 19th - apple farm field trip
  • September 29th and 30th - CCLS Carnival 
  • Sunday, October 1st - CCLS Sunday at Webster Gardens
And for more from last week... 
odd OR even?




 Mouse Paint Art Project





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