Week of May 8th

BE PROUD!
Wow! Everyone worked SO hard and did their best on the Achievement Tests last week! Thanks for making sure your child had a healthy breakfast and was well rested. I can't believe there are only three weeks of school left! It's going to be a wild ride! Also, thanks to those of you that returned your RSVP for the "Author Celebration" this Wednesday. We are SO excited! More info below...

Beautiful moment when God gave us some sun...

National Day of Prayer... #secondattempt

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER FORMATION PROJECT
How does God give you COURAGE to do BIG things? As we read about Pentecost from Acts 2:1-41 we will discuss the virtue of COURAGE.  We define courage as God’s power for you to overcome fear. Christian courage is grounded in the God who drives out fear with His love. Our God is the one who creates and provides for all. He protects us from sin, death and the devil through the life, death and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ. Through the Holy Spirit, He empowers His people to live courageously for others.

READING SKILLS and STRATEGIES

As we read and analyze text structure of nonfiction this week, we will look at how the different parts are organized. Then, we will draw conclusions based on the text, the pictures, and our SCHEMA! We can say I planned this but... the "story of the week" is an autobiography!! How cool! We just finished autobiographies!! AND... not only is it an autobiography, but it is an autobiography about an author's life and how she gets her ideas!! I think your second graders are going to have a lot of connections!!

PHONICS and SPELLING

This week students will identify, sort, and spell words with r-controlled vowels. Please note any student doing list two words - the two lists are very different again this week. Be sure to study!

LIST ONE

stare	rare	chair	star	shark
dare	care	pair	fair	hair

LIST TWO

stare	rare	chair	flair	snare
garlic	spark	cart	stair	hare

BONUS – Pentecost

GRAMMAR and WRITING

Have you RSVP'd to our Author's Celebration? If not, be sure to mark your calendars for this Wednesday, May 10th!! First, join us for chapel, and then meet us in classrooms B&C on the church side of the building. Your children are excited to share all their written work with you! We have a variety of genres to reveal; they've worked really hard!

Our formal grammar lesson this week will target the article "an" and when we use "an" or "a" in our sentences. It's always so funny when the kiddos look back at their writing from the beginning of the year and see how much they've grown in grammar, spelling, and craft!

NEWS and NOTES 

• This week, May 8th -11th is the Middle School Book Fair
• Wednesday, May 10th - our class chapel service AND "Author Celebration!"
• May 15th - Field Trip to Botanical Gardens
• May 19th - Field Day
• May 26th - Last Day of School - Closing worship @ Webster

BLESSINGS ON YOUR WEEK!