1st & 2nd Grade News
September 15, 2010

SHOW & TELL: A picture or model of a horse.

MEMORY VERSE: When someone sins, he earns what sin pays—death. But God gives us a free gift—life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

Spelling: Grade 2: 9/17: pets, cats, pigs, ducks, hogs, skunks, chicks, frogs, hens, dogs, cute, hide 9/24: patch, patches, stripe, stripes, glass, glasses, frog, frogs, would, could, make, made

Spelling: Grade 1: 1st grade spelling won’t begin for a few weeks. We will be reviewing beginning and ending sounds as well as learning the vowel sounds in phonics before the formal spelling tests begin. Word Wall words for this week: about, above, after. all, am, an, and, animal, any, are, arm, art, as, ask, at, baby, bath, be,

Happy Birthday: Conner will be 8 on September 17th. Happy Birthday Conner

Sympathy: We’re all sorry that Enoch broke his arm last week. It is still painful and the students are trying to remember not to bump into him. Everyone was happy that he was able to be back in class on Wednesday.

We’re happy that Weston’s arm is healing quickly and he’s out of his cast. Hopefully we will have no more broken bones this school year.

Reading: Our new Pathways book is Charlie Horse. Ask your student to tell you the story! This is the book we read together after worship time. Today we did a Story Map of the book. The children have learned what “swayback” means. Ask your student for a definition of that word.

Timed Math: Each day we do a 3 minute timed math paper. There are 30 problems on the paper. If a student does not complete the paper in the 3 minutes an L is put on the paper. Even if he/she gets all the problems correct it still needs to be repeated the next day until speed is increased. If mistakes are made on the paper, the same paper will be repeated the following day. Each student moves on to the next level paper as he/she is ready. The goal for the 1st graders is to do all the addition and subtraction facts to 10 during this year. The second graders are starting where they finished last year. When the 11-18 concepts are finished the 2nd graders will move on to multiplication. One of the 2nd graders was working on the 2nd grade computation last year so this year he is doing the timing in 2 minutes instead of 3.