March Madness in Grade One/Two
March 23-27, 2015
I hope your spring break was lovely, fun, and restful. We had a delightful and love-filled time with our very new baby granddaughter, Emma Grace, who finally arrived on March 13 after a long and arduous journey into the big wide world. God is good!
We are back to work in a big way, needing, not just hoping, to finish our amazing social studies books. We are ready to cover this week after a great and valiant push to complete all writing before spring break! Woohoo!
I have a virtual field trip about dinosaurs scheduled with the Atlanta Center for Puppetry and Arts on April 14, so we need to start the dinosaur unit next week.
In reading/language, we will read stories of long ago (which to these kiddos means when I was born, back in the dark ages J). Firsts will read a delightful book called, The Golly Sisters Go West while seconds read Two Lunches at the Mill. Both give insight into life in times past. I would like the kiddos to begin making simple dioramas as a story response. We will have two weeks to complete this in-class project. I think I am crazy doing this along with covering books, but oh well… It should be fun! Our sounds are ing and es word endings. Seconds also have the nch word chunk. We will talk about pronouns, plurals, and story characters. (Hence the diorama.)
Mrs. O. is out of town visiting family so we will not have her help in math for the next couple of weeks. Firsts will review addition strategies and work hard on subtraction strategies while seconds learn about adding and trading with 3 digit numbers. All will work on geometry, solid shapes in particular.
We continue to learn about the parts of the Mass in religion. We will be singing at the 5:30 PM Mass at St. Laurence on Sunday. Palm Sunday is a big deal and I am hoping for a good number of children to come sing!
Spelling words
move moving go going box boxes
stop stopping
Second grade words: bench benches lunch lunches
crunch crunches
Homework
Monday: spelling sort as usual, neat and readable, please!
Tuesday: Math, geometry
Wednesday: no homework, 2nd grade parents please come to the important and necessary gathering to discuss First Communion at 6:30 PM at St. Laurence church (upstairs in the body of the church)
Thursday: spelling
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