Monday, April 18th, 2016

Today in the second grade, we:

• were updated on our house points, celebrated achievements in the DISK community, and learned about responsibility during our weekly assembly
• took our weekly spelling quiz, previewed this week's target vocabulary, and wrote interview questions for a  news story using the 5 w's (who, what, when, where, why) in reading and phonics class
• practiced skip counting and reviewed different subtraction strategies in math class
• worked with this week's idiom: "The Early Bird Gets the Worm" and identified traits in different groups of native Americans in social studies class
• helped Sophie and Julie conduct the experiment for their science fair project, listened to our latest class story, practiced April's class poem and April's class song

G2 works hard to be responsible everyday with their duties, words, and feelings.

Ms. Fisher, Ms. Johnson, Mr. Y, and Ms. Lopez ran a 12k race last week. Well done!

The beautiful house banners that we created with our houses will be displayed around the school.

Tonight's Homework:

• Complete the fiction book report on "Helen Keller" and check the rubric (in your child's language notebook.) 
• 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:

• The students' science fair boards are due this Thursday, April 21st. I have already received one.
• There will be a math quiz on chapter 13 this Thursday, April 21st.
• There will be a phonics quiz on unit 4 next Monday, April 25th.
• The spelling words for next Monday's spelling quiz (April 25th) will come from Horizons unit 5: Past and Present.

1. landmark
2. colony
3. artifact
4. settler
5. history
6. season
7. ancient
8. modern
9. time line
10. settlement
11. source
12. Hopi
13. predict
14. museum
15. cause
16. effect
17. independence
18. freedom
19. region