Grade One/Two February 16-20, 2015
I hope you had a wonderful extra day with your cherubs. We are working hard at school to provide an excellent, faith-based education for your child. Yes, changes will come with the retirement of our beloved Mr. Wilhelm, but I firmly believe that St. Laurence is Christ’s school and he will guide and love us through the transition.
In reading/language, we will read another story about being lost. We’ll think again about adjectives and how they make writing ever so much more interesting. Our sounds are short o as in lost and ai as in wait. I apologize for last week’s spelling words with the aw and ay sounds. It never occurred to me that the cherubs would mix those up, but it did indeed happen. You’d think I’d know!
We continue to progress in math as we learn about money. We are counting pennies, dimes, nickels and quarters. You can help by counting with your child each night the change in your pocket or purse, or even just a part of that amount. Firsts will also work more on fact families and seconds move into manipulating 3 digit numbers.
Our big event, First Reconciliation for the second graders, is Saturday! Wow, have we worked hard and grown as we have prepared for this sacrament of God’s loving forgiveness! And of course, Lent begins this week with Ash Wednesday, so we will talk lots about Lent. I would like to focus not so much on giving up, as sharing our love and growing in relationship to God. What can we do to make the world a better place? Yes, that involves sacrifice and thinking less of ourselves and more about others.
My hope is to complete writing our informational books this week and bind them next week. Not sure that’s really going to happen, but it’s a hope!
Science focuses on healthy eating. Last week we considered a nutritious breakfast, this week it’s lunch!
Spelling words
lost cost wait bait main rain pain
gain Additional for second’s: frost train
Tuesday: spelling sort
Wednesday: please discuss what your family will do to observe and grow in Lent
Thursday: spelling
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