Monday, April 11th, 2016

Today in the second grade, we:

• were updated on our house points, celebrated the angel of the week, celebrated Kellen's achievement at his TKD tournament, and presented our skits on forgiveness during our weekly assembly
• previewed our weekly target vocabulary and continued to word with suffixes (-en, -able, -ible, -ion, and -ment) in reading and phonics class
• rewrote subtraction problems in vertical form in math class
• worked with this week's idiom: "Count Your Blessings" and identified causes for Fort Myers' expansion and the effects of its expansion in social studies class
• helped Sophie and Julie conduct the experiment for their science fair project, practiced April's class poem, and April's class song

Tonight's Homework:

• Complete the reading response on "How Things Move" and check the rubric (in your child's assignment book.) 
• Read aloud for 15 minutes and have a parent sign your reading log. 
• Rewrite your spelling quiz mistakes five times and get your spelling tablet signed.

Announcements:

• There will be a science quiz on unit 9 this Thursday, April 14th.
• There will be a math quiz on chapter 13 next Thursday, April 21st.
• The spelling words for next Monday's spelling quiz (April 18th) will come from Science Fusion unit  9.

1. matter
2. mass
3. property
4. color
5. shape
6. size
7. texture
8. solid
9. gas
10. liquid
11. volume
12. water vapor
13. freezing
14. evaporation
15. condensation
16. melting 
17. shrink
18. expand
19. container