Saturday, December 2, 2017

Week of December 4th

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... What a wonderful time of year!
Last week was a great week. It was so refreshing to dive back into our routines. 
Hopefully you heard, or maybe even saw, our class book arrived!! These second graders were thrilled to have their OWN PUBLISHED book! Wow! What an accomplishment!







We also celebrated Charlie's 8th birthday this week! 
Happy birthday, Charlie! 

And, our trip to Global Foods was a success! 
Hopefully those reports are coming along! 
We're excited to hear some of them next week already! 

Here's what's going on this week...

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER FORMATION PROJECT
Advent is a time of anticipation and preparation, a time of celebration of Jesus’ coming.
Just like a mom and dad have to prepare for a baby that’s on the way, or a host has to prepare to throw a party, we ask God to prepare our hearts for the birth of His son, Jesus. We will continue to use these weeks before Christmas to study the Christmas story, read it from The Bible, and maybe even do some inferring of the "characters feelings." 

PHONICS and SPELLING 
We'll be reading, sorting and spelling three letter consonant blends this week... (For example, words with scr, str, spr, squ). 

READING SKILLS and STRATEGIES
We can teach inferring for a variety of purposes. Children can infer how a character feels, about why a character behaves a certain way, or even the theme of a book. This week we'll continue to practice this higher level reading skill of making inferences. 

GRAMMAR and WRITING 
In grammar we continue our focus on verbs. This week we will zone into changing a verb based on its tense (past, present, or future). Your children are doing their best using all the phonics, spelling, and grammar rules they know to apply this skill in their writing!

Have you asked your child about what topics they have chosen to write nonfiction (informational) pieces of writing about yet? We're going to start publishing very soon! 

This week's NEWS and NOTES
  • December 4th (TODAY) - Afternoon field trip to Laclede Groves
  • December 7th - Santa's Workshop 
  • December 18th - 2nd Change Challenge Collection 
  • December 18th - CCLS Advent Service 6:00pm 
  • December Reading Logs Due December 19th or 20th 
  • December 21st - Christmas breaks begins
BLESSINGS ON YOUR WEEK!

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