1st & 2nd Grade News
September 22, 2011

SHOW & TELL: Something that begins with the letter S.

MEMORY VERSE: God said, God said, “Let us make man in our image, let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Genesis 1:26 (the children have been learning this to song.)

Reading Log: Continue recording reading minutes on the September calendar. It will be due in the classroom on September 30!

2nd Grade Spelling: stripe, patch, stripes, frog, make, glasses, glass, made, would, frogs, patches, could (test on Friday, 9/23/11)

1st Grade Frequently Used Sight Words: (these are not for spelling –just for reading!) 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

Nutrition: This week we’ve been talking about Vitamins. Reinforcing the concept at the dinner table at night would be a good thing! This week’s vitamins were K & E. We tasted sunflower seeds this week.

Sunflower Seeds: On Monday we took apart a huge sunflower donated by the Engeberg family. The students estimated how many seeds were in the flower. The closest estimate to the 2,163 seeds that were in the flower was Tateum’s estimate of 2, 139. The children each got to help count the seeds by putting them in groups of 10. Thankfully, Mrs. DeDios did the hard work of putting all the 10’s into the final number. We soaked the seeds in salt water overnight, then toasted them in a slow oven on Tuesday. It’s a good thing it was a slow oven! Mrs. Canaday forgot them for 3 hours. They were just right when Kasi went running in to tell Mrs. DeDios to quickly take the seeds that teacher forgot out of the oven.
The seeds proved to be quite messy in the classroom, but none of the children will forget where sunflower seeds come from now.

Field Trip: Thank you to the parents who took time to take us to the Farmer’s Market. The children had a wonderful time seeing all the fruits and vegetables that were available. They also enjoyed getting to purchase some for themselves. Thank you for participating by being with us or by sending money for your student to use.

Upcoming events:
October 7 Field Trip to the Pumpkin Patch
October 14 No School—Teacher In service

October 21 Field Trip to Sacajawea Park to study local Indians