1/28-2/1

This week is Spirit week at school!  The theme is "Thirsty".  Please encourage the children to dress up and learn the memory verse.  We get points for participation!
 
The theme memory verse is "For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things." Psalm 107:9
 
Monday: Red Carpet Day-Dress Up like you are attending a special event!
Tuesday: Steve Urkel Day-Dress in your best "nerd" outfit!
Wednesday: Dress like you are 100 years old!
Thursday: Thirsty Thursday- Dress like your favorite beverage!
Friday:  Western Day-Dress as Cowboys or Indians!

Please continue to work with the students on responsibility encouraging them to take care of getting out and puttingaway  homework, turning homework in the next day, and taking care of desks, folders, and bookbags themselves. 

Please practice Spelling words every night! Each school day prior to a test, if your child brings me his/her written list of spelling words signed by a parent that they have completed the previous evening at home, I will offer 1 bonus point towards their test!

Please continue to work on Math facts 1-14 (addition and subtraction).

We are still collecting boxtops! All money will go toward the end of the year fun day!

The Prince of the Week is Josiah!

Tests this week: (We will have two Phonics tests this week)
Monday: Take home Reading test and Bible (Psalm 1:5-6)
Tuesday: Phonics and Arithmetic!
Wednesday: Spelling and Penmanship!
Thursday: Bible (Psalm 1:1-6) and Oral Reading!
Friday: Phonics!

If the students wrote their 20 sentences on Tuesday and turned them in Wednesday this past week, they will receive 5 extra bonus points toward the first Phonics test this week! 

1/21-1/25

I am working with the students on responsibility such as taking care of their desks, folders, and cleaning up after themselves. It is their job to make sure they take folders home and turn in papers to me. Please encourage your children to take care of organizing their own work, putting their own papers and notes in their folders to return to me, and unloading their things when they get to school.

Please practice Spelling words every night! Each school day prior to a test, if your child brings me his/her written list of spelling words signed by a parent that they have completed the previous evening at home, I will offer 1 bonus point towards their test!

Please continue to work on Math facts 1-14 (addition and subtraction). 

We are still collecting boxtops!  All money will go toward the end of the year fun day!

The Princess of the Week is Isabella!

Tests this week:
Monday: No School!
Tuesday:  Penmanship!
Wednesday: Arithmetic, andSpelling!
Thursday: Phonics and Bible Psalms 1:5-6!
Friday: Nothing!

1/14-1/18

I am working with the students on responsibility such as taking care of their desks, folders, and cleaning up after themselves.  It is their job to make sure they take folders home and turn in papers to me.  Please encourage your children to take care of organizing their own work, putting their own papers and notes in their folders to return to me, and unloading their things when they get to school.

Please practice Spelling words every night! Each school day prior to a test, if your child brings me his/her written list of spelling words signed by a parent that they have completed the previous evening at home, I will offer 1 bonus point towards their test!

Please help us collect the most boxtops!  We will win a trip to Sweet Frog if we collect the most! 

The Princess of the Week is Emma!

Tests this week:
Monday: Penmanship!
Tuesday: Arithmetic!
Wednesday: Spelling and Phonics!
Thursday: Bible Psalms 1:3-4!
Friday: Nothing!

1/7-1/11

We won for boxtops this past month.  We had a pizza party on Friday 1/4/13.  We are still collecting them. You can send boxtops in anytime.

Wednesday, January 9 is D.E.A.R Day!  The theme is Winter.

We are working on Math Facts for 1-13 addition and subtraction.  Please help your children review these with games or flash cards. 

If you send in a note signed that you read this blog.  I will give your child 5 bonus points toward their Math or Phonics test!

 
Please practice Spelling words every night! Each school day prior to a test, if your child brings me his/her written list of spelling words signed by a parent that they have completed the previous evening at home, I will offer 1 bonus point towards their test!

The Prince of the Week is Dawson!

Tests this week:
Monday: Nothing!
Tuesday:  Arithmetic and Penmanship!
Wednesday: Spelling and Phonics!
Thursday: Bible Psalms 1:1-2!
Friday:  Nothing!

12/31-1/4

Hello Second Grade!  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! 

We will not have a Spelling test or Bible test this week!  The next Spelling test will be Wednesday, January 9 and the next Bible test will be Thursday, January 10. I will send the new Bible verses home on Wednesday, January 2 when we return to school! 

Please enjoy the rest of your break and have a Happy New Year!

12/17-12/20

Please return gifts for our "Christmas Surprise"
by Wednesday, December 19!
If you have a question about your gift, please give me a call. 304-880-6406 

Our Christmas party will be Thursday, December 20 from 1:30 until the end of school.  Everyone is welcome. If you would like to bring something please let me know.  We need cheese, pepperoni, and crackers still.


Please practice Spelling words every night! Each school day prior to a test, if your child brings me his/her written list of spelling words signed by a parent that they have completed the previous evening at home, I will offer 1 bonus point towards their test!

We are saving boxtops. You can send them in anytime.

Our Library Day is Thursday! Please make sure students bring library books with them on Thursdays! 


Tests this week!
Monday- Nothing!
Tuesday-Nothing!
Wednesday-Spelling!
Thursday-Arithmetic, Bible, Phonics, Oral Reading!
Friday-No School!

12/10-12/14

Wednesday, December 12 - D.E.A.R Day. Christmas is the theme!

We are saving boxtops. You can send them in anytime.

Our Library Day is Thursday! Please make sure students bring library books with them on Thursdays!  I have decided that we will not have a spelling test on the list of words that was sent home (List 14).  I would like for the children to keep practicing them though and become familiar with them.  If the students write a complete sentence for each spelling word and turn it in to me by Wednesday, December 12.  I will count it as 5 bonus points toward their Phonics test this week.  


Our next Bible test will be on Thursday, December 20! I will send it home on Monday.  It will only be one verse! 

Tests this week!
Monday- Nothing!
Tuesday-Oral Reading!
Wednesday-Nothing!
Thursday-Arithmetic!
Friday-Phonics!

Isabella is the Princess of the Week!