Monday, April 25th, 2016

Today in the second grade, we:

• were updated on our house points and celebrated achievements in the DISK community during our weekly assembly
• took our weekly spelling quiz, previewed this week's target vocabulary, and took a quiz on unit 4 (suffixes, contractions and syllabification) in reading and phonics class
• practiced writing multistep word problems and skip counted to find the value of coins in math class
• worked with this week's idiom: "On Cloud Nine" and learned about how Thurgood Marshall, Louis Pasteur and Golda Meir contributed to society in social studies class
• continued to work on presenting our science fair projects, listened to our latest class story, practiced April's class poem and April's class song

Tonight's Homework:

• Complete the reading response on "Have You Got the Time?" 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:

• Tomorrow is the last day to turn in your Scholastic orders.
• There will be a language quiz on adjectives next Tuesday, May 3rd.
• The spelling words for next Tuesday's spelling quiz (May 3rd) will come from Journeys pg. 412-472 ("Helen Keller" and "Officer Buckle and Gloria"):

1. knowledge
2. curious
3. motion
4. silence
5. illness
6. imitated
7. darkness
8. behavior
9. blind
10. deaf
11. obeys
12. safety
13. attention
14. buddy
15. station
16. speech
17. shocked
18. enormous
19. surprised
20. laughed