Monday, November 16th, 2015

Today in the second grade, we:

• were updated on our house points, celebrated the participants from Saturday's city-wide spelling bee, and learned more about our community gardening project from Mr. Chao during our weekly assembly
• took our weekly spelling quiz, practiced syllabification, and started brainstorming for our weekly sharing time in reading and phonics class
• took a quiz on chapter 5 in math class
• completed our review of unit 2 with a game of Jeopardy in social studies class
• practiced for the language festival and next Monday's assembly, listened to and discussed some more of our current story, and practiced using our idiom of the week: "Losing Her Marbles."

Congratulations to Fiona, for taking first place in the spoken part of the spelling bee, and congratulations to Daniel and Fiona for tying for first place in the written part of the spelling bee!

Tonight's Homework:

• Complete the reading response on "Using a Timeline" and check the rubric (in your child's assignment book.) 

• Read aloud for 15 minutes and have a parent sign your reading log.

Announcements:

• The topic for this Friday's weekly sharing time is: What do your parents do? The students have received their outline and are welcome to start working on their presentations. The outline will be due on Wednesday, November 18th.
  
  The points that the students were suggested to cover are:
  
  
  • What does your mom do?
  • What does your dad do?
  • What do your parents do at home?
  • What did your parents study?
  • What are your parents' hobbies?
  • What do you love most about your parents?

• I sent home the weekly spelling quiz. Please sign and send it back with your child. Thank you!

• The spelling words for next Monday's spelling quiz (November 23rd) will come from our recent Journeys stories "Animals Building Homes" (pg. 162-163) and "The Ugly Vegetables" (pg. 190-191.)

1. shaped
2. branches
3. pond
4. deepest
5. hang
6. break
7. winding
8. blooming
9. shovels
10. plain
11. wrinkled
12. scent
13. tough
14. nodded

• There will be a quiz in social studies on unit 2 this Wednesday, November 18th.
  
  
• There will be a quiz in math on chapter 6 next Wednesday, November 25th. Overall, the students did quite well on today's math quiz! We'll keep pressing on, but please do let me know if you find your child struggling to keep up.
  
  
• We will be creating our own fossils this week. I have received some small toys for a few students. I've directed the remaining students to bring in a small toy tomorrow. Thank you!