Greetings from 2nd grade!! With last Monday off, the week seemed to fly by! We have got a lot of stuff coming up in the next few weeks so you may find that your child is going to be very busy. Please take note of the following:

Your child has chosen a president and is assigned to make a president brochure. There is a letter attached explaining the project. On the back of the letter is a rubric explaining what your child needs to do to get the grade they want. Please look over it thoroughly. The president brochure is due on Tuesday, February 16th.

Please remember to keep track of your Book-It minutes!!

We will be having a field trip to Denver’s Museum of Nature and Science on Thursday, February 11th. Both second grades and third grade will be going. Permission slips and details will be handed out next week. A limited number of chaperones will be able to go and I cannot start making those arrangements until the permission slips go out. Thank you for your understanding.

Like Halloween, for Valentines Day we will not have a big party. Instead we will be going to the skating rink on Wednesday, February 10th. We will be skating in the afternoon. Please look for that permission slip in the next couple of weeks as well. We will take about 45 minutes on Friday, February 12th to have a small treat and pass out valentines. If your child brings valentines, please be sure that he/she has one for everyone in our class. Thanks!

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

Religion: This week we talked about the “Sermon on the Mount.” It was here that Jesus spoke to the people about God’s love and trusting that God will take care of you. Our fears in life are many times things that we worry about. Some fears are big and some are little. But fears are not silly. Fears are bothersome, worrisome, and troublesome. Fears make us unhappy. We know we will have troubles in this world, but we know God is still there. He is always with us and will help us. His love fills us with trust. He has forgiven our sins, and He promises us heaven, where all our troubles and worries will be gone. We also talked about the Lord’s Prayer. In the Bible it says we are to be imitators of God. When the disciples asked the Lord how to pray He showed them. Christians have been imitating the Lord’s Prayer for 2,000 years since then. Some people think that praying just means asking. But in the Lord’s Prayer only the middle section of the prayer has asking statements. The beginning and the end are all about God. The important thing to remember is the no matter what words you use, God hears and answers our prayers.

Math: In math this week we tested over our subtraction by 4’s and began practicing our subtraction by 5’s. We also did some work with tangrams, which was very fun for the kids. It is a different kind of thought process. The kids practiced writing money using a dollar sign and we began subtracting double digit numbers. We will be borrowing before you know it.

Reading: We started the week out by reading a new story entitled, “Clean Your Room Harvey Moon.” We went over the following high frequency words: clean, few, should, done, today, notice, and shout. In addition, we talked about the vowel sounds in moon and book and practiced writing with rhyming words. We have also gotten back to doing some reading in groups.

Science/Soc. St.: In science this week we talked about why we measure weather and discussed a few instruments used to measure weather. In social studies, our study skill was working on reading a tally graph and we began talking about the branches of government. We also identified our leaders at the city, state, and country levels. Be sure to read the attached note about your child’s president project.

Language Arts: In language arts this week we learned how to write contractions with the word “not.” We reviewed apostrophes, specifically when we are using possessives. Finally, we reviewed past tense verbs and some common errors that are associated with them.

Spelling/Phonics: In spelling this week we talked about more long “o” spellings. (For example, words spelled with o, ow, oa, and oe. In phonics, we are still working on r-controlled vowels, but this week we focused on ir, er, and ur. We also reviewed digraphs and silent consonants.

God’s blessings on the week ahead!! Remember to take it to the Lord in prayer. Trust in Him. He is always listening!

In Christ,

Miss Rempfer

Spelling Words: zoo, food, look, moon, book, soon, took, good, room, foot, you, who, clap, like
Challenge Words: hoof, moose

Extra List: chairs, beach, faces, giving, fence, canning, driveway, seemed, money, stage, himself, soda, dare, able
Challenge Words: wonderful, garage

Memory: If we confess our sins, God who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins.
I John 1:9