Week of August 20th

Well, we did it! We survived the first week of school! 

I'm absolutely thrilled to begin this journey with you and all of your precious second graders. As a CCLS graduate, I feel extremely blessed to be back in this loving community as an educator. I pray that we live each day knowing "He makes us brave".

Here's what's in store for the week... 

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

This week we will read from Genesis 1, and discuss integrity. We define integrity as God's power for you to do the right thing. As we read, we'll ask ourselves, "How does the goodness of creation show God's integrity?" 

READING SKILLS and STRATEGIES 

This week we will continue to review readers workshop expectations, focus a lot on how to choose "just right" books to read independently, and learn a few specific ways to help ourselves comprehend what we are reading.

I hope you found your child's RED folder in his/her backpack. I encourage your child to use what we're learning at school, at home, and find "just right" books to read while reading independently. Reading to your child also counts towards your child's goal and has very positive effects. 

WRITING

This week in writing we will be working on our summer poster stories. Our focus will be brainstorming topic sentences, a body with details about our summers, and a concluding sentence. This first writing piece helps me get to know and assess everyone's various writing talents. I can't wait for our little authors to take off! 

NEWS AND NOTES

• Elementary campus - school picture day 
• Curriculum Night (for parents) August 28th 7:00pm
• No School Labor Day - September 3rd 
• Did your child complete the "CCLS Summer Reading Challenge?" You will be receiving information about that free dress day soon, but please feel free to send in whatever your child used to track their summer reading at any point. 

I'm so excited for this school year!

Please contact me if you have questions or concerns. 

Mrs. Klug 

rklug@ccls-stlouis.org

BLESSINGS ON YOUR WEEK!

Here's a look back on last week... 

Happy Birthday to Annalise!

We read the book How Full is Your Bucket and discussed how to keep our "buckets full" every day.  Each one of us signed our list of classroom expectations.

Here we are during "readers workshop." 

My goal is for each child to view reading as a purposeful and important part of their lives. Part of that is making their own decisions about their reading. Here we are practicing reading independently... They were so excited to "book shop" and start reading!