1st & 2nd Grade News
September 23, 2010

SHOW & TELL: A picture or model of a means of transportation.

MEMORY VERSE: Always remember these commands I give you today. Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and walk along the road. Talk about them when you lie down and when you get up. Deut. 6:6, 7 To be said October 1. We’ll spend 2 weeks on this one as it’s longer.

Spelling: Grade 2: 9/24: patch, patches, stripe, stripes, glass, glasses, frog, frogs, would, could, make, made 10/1 their, bathtub, many, pigpen, backpack, bedtime, windmill, there, pancake, very, sunset 10/8 robot, helmet, plastic, cactus, blanket, button, rabbit, mitten, carrot, which, people, puppet 10/15 his, they, them, this, have, or, but, what, were, then, has, are 10/22 brushed, brushing, planted, planting, baked, baking, skated, skating, pecked, pecking, where, these

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, because, bed, been, best, big, bird, black, books, boy, brother, bread, bright, but, by, call, can, can’t car, card, cat, caught, children, coat, city, come, could, dad, day, did, didn’t do, does, don’t, door, down, drink

Happy Birthday: Caleb will be 8 on September 26th. Happy Birthday Caleb

Reading: Please continue encouraging your student to read each day. Some of the students have checked out more than 20 books so far this year. Others are only at 6 or 7.

Timed Math: If your student is stuck on a timed math paper, maybe you could help at home with making flash cards out of index cards and practicing the facts he/she is having trouble with remembering. Each timed math paper repeats the same new combination many times in the 30 problems. If the student can’t remember the new fact it really slows him/her down.

Homework: Today the 2nd graders had a homework paper that involved coloring as well as writing the answers. If the paper was not completed when they walked in the door, they did not receive a sticker for completed work. Please remind your student to read ALL directions as well as put their name on the paper.