1st & 2nd Grade News
September 9, 2010

SHOW & TELL: A Bible verse about things that grow.

MEMORY VERSE: The Father has loved us so much! He love us so much that we are called children of God. 1 John 3:1

Spelling: Grade 2: 9/10: drip, trip, nest, blend, drink, bank, when, that, this, shell, cone, what 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

Update on the Family Picture: Please send a picture of your family for use on our classroom bulletin board. Thanks! I have only 8 pictures so far! Thanks to the 8 students who have brought yours in.

New Revised Class Enrollment: There are 11- 2nd graders, 8- 1st graders and 4- K-1 students in our classroom. The K-1 students join us at 11:40 Monday through Thursday. (A new student joined us on Tuesday, September 7—Jordan in 1st Grade)

Reading: I’m encouraging each student to check out a new book every day to take home and read in the evening. Some students have been forgetting to return their book, thus they can’t check out a new one until the previous checked-out book is back in the classroom. If a book is lost, the cost is $4.00 to pay for the book and be reinstated in the good graces of the book check-out system. (The price used to be $3.00, but if you’d noticed lately the cost of books has been climbing!)

Happy Birthday: Belated birthday greetings to Andrew who turned 6 on August 27 and Claudia who turned 6 on September 4. In the coming week Rylee will be 7 on September 12, followed by Conner’s 8th birthday on September 17.