Greetings from 2nd grade!! It seems like a few things have been going around at school. Please make sure your child is washing hands, eating right, and getting plenty of sleep. If they are sick just keep them home. We are sanitizing our desks, doorknobs, etc. In addition we are washing hands and trying not to spread our germs. I pray that everyone stays healthy. Please check out the following announcements.

Read! Read! Read! Don’t forget to keep track of the minutes you read outside of school on your calendar. Your goal is 15 minutes a day or 465 minutes for the month of November! Turn in your calendars on November 2nd! Remember if you are interested in that bookmark that is also a timer go to markmytime.com or Barnes and Noble.

Today was the last day of the quarter. Report cards will go home Wednesday, October 28th.
There will also be no school on Friday, October 30th. Parent teacher conferences will take place on Thursday the 29th and Friday the 30th. I will confirm a time and send a slip home so you can put it down on your calendars.

Picture retakes are on the 27th at about 10:30. I believe you are to bring your first set of pictures back.

Our next social studies test will be on Wednesday, October 28th. We will be taking it in the morning sometime. The test is over Unit 4: People Long Ago. The study guide was sent home last week.

On Wednesday, October 28th, we will be having a skating party at the Wagon Wheel. This will take place in the afternoon. If you have not turned in your child’s permission slip please have it in by Monday. Grades 1-4 will be going. This takes the place of a “Halloween party.” However, on Thursday afternoon we will be doing a small craft and having a treat. We will not be dressing up in costumes.

We will be doing a science habitat project. Your child has picked an animal. With your help they will do a little research. They will have to transform a shoebox (or any box around that size) into their animal’s habitat. I then need them to answer a few questions. All the details are attached. The project is due Monday, November 9th. If they are done before that date they can go ahead and bring it in early.

Here’s what we have been up to this week:

Religion: In religion this week, we continued to talk about various leaders for the Lord. Again, the people of Israel turned away from God. This time God allowed an enemy, the Midianites to overrule the land. The Midianites robbed the people of their food and animals. So the people hid from their enemies. God chose Gideon to lead the army, but Gideon wasn’t sure he could do it. The Lord promised he would be with Gideon. Gideon gathered an army, but the Lord said it was too big. So, many of the soldiers were sent home. Gideon’s army small, but God didn’t want the people to say they fought and won because they had only the bravest soldiers. God said he would use this small group to save Israel. Now, if this sounds unusual, listen to the weapons the army was to carry—not swords, not shields, not spears—just empty jars, torches, and trumpets! The most powerful weapon they had was God Himself! God won the victory! We also talked about David and Goliath. David was only a boy but he trusted the Lord to help him defeat the giant Goliath. David used only a small stone to defeat a giant that the entire army was worried about. We have “giants” in our lives too. In other words, we will have problems while we are in this sin-filled world. But God is our only hope, and He will never leave us.

Math: In math this week, we practiced ordering 2-digit numbers. We tested over the sums of 12 and started practicing the sums of 13 and 14. We learned to read a recipe and measure the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies. We got to eat them too!! Finally, we practiced counting money, again we stuck with dimes, nickels, and pennies for now!

Reading: In reading this week, we practiced reading and writing different kinds of sentences. Again, we talked about how our voice might sound different when you read a question or exclamation. We also read a new story entitled “What lives in a shell?” We studied the following vocabulary words: grow, smooth, open, enemies, goes, outgrow, opening, and hollow. We also are continuing to read in groups.

Science and SS: This week in science we talked about how living things survive in different places. We defined the following words: pond, ocean, tundra, grassland, rain forest, desert. In addition, we gave some examples of animals you might find in each environment. I also spent time explaining the habitat project which is due on Monday, November 9th. Your child chose their own animal. In social studies we talked about differentiating between fact and fiction and we also reviewed for the test which is on Wednesday, October 28th.

Language Arts: In language arts we studied compound words. The kids picked up on this really fast. In addition, we talked about good leads and endings for paragraphs that we write. We like to start with a topic sentence and give some kind of closure to our paragraph. Finally, we started talking about the descriptive writing we will be starting next week.

Spelling/Phonics: In spelling this week we studied words with k or ck. Next week we will be studying words with double consonants. The pretest will be on Monday and the posttest will be on Thursday. In phonics, we are continuing to work on long and short vowels, rhyming, and using words in context.

God’s blessings on the week ahead! Remember God will help you face the “giants” in your life!!

In Christ,

Miss Rempfer


Spelling Words: bell, off, dress, add, hill, well, egg, will, grass, tell, at, hot
Challenge Words: brass, skill

Extra List: hour, monkey, becoming, hoping, finest, airplanes, midnight, earth, across, painter, weeds, itself, protest, loud
Challenge Words: coward, should

Memory: The Ninth Commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor’s house.
The Tenth Commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his
manservant or maid servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your
neighbor.