Month: January 2017

Hello Parents! Happy Weekend to you and your family.

We have so many exciting events going on next week:

• Monday is Heroes Day so we will have a nice long weekend and then meet up together again on Tuesday.
• Tuesday will be the Bible Verse Awards Ceremony at the end of our 8:30 am chapel.
• It will also be the Honor Roll Ceremony in the evening at 6:00 in the Chapel!
• Friday is the Rollathon! Make sure you’ve filled out your student’s permission form and that you send a helmet with the roller skates/blades/skateboards/scooters/bikes!

Here is the Weekly Verse/Spelling/Updates PDF

We’re studying many interesting things as second term starts up:

• Writing: Students have just finished a full Writer’s Workshop to publish their very own personal narrative. Copies will either stay in the classroom libraries for a while or come home immediately depending on each student’s preference. Students will write another personal narrative this week!
• Reading: Students will read their second of three fantasy stories. Last week’s chaos in The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate The Wash has prepared their imaginations for the fun of How I Spent My Summer Vacation this week.
• Vocab: captured, imagination, relax, manners, matado, plains, vacation
• Spelling: oi/oy words
• Social Studies: students have started on the biggest unit of the year: The Cayman Islands! They’ve created their own travel books, hand-made passport pages included! We’ll start with the five districts of Grand Cayman and then move on to Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. Students are encouraged to bring in photos or ticket stubs from activities around the island to add to their books. Also, students will need to know their address. Please either help your child memorize your address or help them write it on a piece of paper to bring in 🙂
• Science: students are learning all about trees, leaves, and the life cycle of plants! Time lapse videos like this one  are sure to capture your child’s interest.

Kind Regards,

Ms. Maurice and Ms. Mittelman

 

Dear Parents and Guardians,

We are back into the swing of things here in 2nd grade. The regular patterns of weekly spelling words, Bible verses, and new reading stories have resumed. Please make sure that your child is bringing home the printed weekly bulletin so that they can study (and also keep track of their reading on the Reading Log on the other side!)

Here is the electronic copy: Weekly Bulletin: Spelling, Bible Verse, Updates

• 2A and 2B are about to study Grand Cayman’s districts in Social Studies. Please make sure your child either knows their address by heart or has a piece of paper with the address written on it! We will be using this in class for an activity.

• Books of the Bible Song (OT and NT): 2B students are trying to learn the books of the Bible better as they begin to gain more reading skills and are able to follow along during Bible lessons. They are also trying to get better at using the Table of Contents in order to win the Swords Up Bible book location speed game we’ve started playing 🙂

• This Week’s Story is The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash and the vocab words are: boring, ducked, sense, suppose, tractor.