Author: First Baptist Christian School

Hello Parents,

Hello Parents,

Lots of news for the week!

1. Tuesday is Valentine’s Day. We will celebrate as a second grade by passing out all of the notes we’ve written as part of our week-long Kindness Challenge. If your student would like to bring in special cards, candies, or small toys to pass out for the holiday, please make sure they bring in enough for every student in their homeroom (10 total in 2A and 11 total in 2B)
2. Friday is the 100th Day of School. Students will celebrate by coming prepared in two different ways:
   1. Students are encouraged to dress up like a 100 year old OR in a way that celebrates 100
   2. Students are encouraged to bring 100 of the same item in a bag
3. Friday is also our Numeracy Bee. Just like the Spelling Bee, it will be held in the chapel at 12:30!

Here is the PDF for the Week’s Spelling/Bible Verse/Reminders: WEEKLY BULLETIN

Hello Parents!

February 6th is Open House here at FBCS. Please stop by in the evening starting around 5:30 to see more about the second grade curriculum and also about the other grades (especially as a preview for what your student will learn next year in 3rd grade!)

Speaking of curriculum, our Harcourt reading curriculum has the students reading a new story that is matched with vocabulary and spelling every week. Some of the students have reported back to me the amazing things that you as parents are doing to support their learning at home! Here is a great resource for our upcoming stories: http://www.primarygradesclasspage.com/Harcourt%202-2%20Banner%20Days.htm

Weekly Spelling and Updates (Verses for next 3 weeks on second page)

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.

Hello Parents,

• No Spelling or Literacy test this week!
• Social Studies Oral Presentations will happen throughout the week!
• The Christmas Party will be pizza and a movie on December 15th. Please do not pack your child lunch for that day unless they would prefer their own lunch to the pizza lunch. We are opting out of a gift exchange since students can easily have hurt feelings or get into squabbles. Instead, we are asking that each student bring in one book to donate to the 2nd grade class library. Please bring in a new or used book, and it will be added to our collection with a special sticker of recognition in your child’s name. 

Hello Parents,

This week is the last full week of school before the holiday break. It will be our last week with spelling/a literacy story so as to allow time for special holiday activities and projects during the last few days before we separate for Christmas. Between now and then, here are some class highlights:

• PDF of Weekly Verse/Spelling
• Science presentations are going on! Social Studies research and poster-making are also under way.
• Monday’s showing of All About That Baby. Please help students be punctual and dressed in a green top.
• Christmas Party for 2nd grade will be on December 15th and will be quite low-key. Students will enjoy Christmas-themed art projects among other surprised. More information will be emailed soon, but there will not be any need for additional donations 🙂 Thank you kindly for all you’ve given toward the Coin Drive, International Night, and more.

Dear Parents,

We are happy to see more and more students returning to school with improved health! We will support students who missed out on work, both in class and as homework. With three weeks left of school before the Christmas holiday, there will be two weeks of Literacy and Spelling while the last week will be spent in holiday themed writing and activities. Here is the PDF of the Week’s Spelling, Verse, and Reminders!Nov 28-Dec 2 PDF

Please read the following updates on the big Science and Social Studies projects the students are researching. You can help your student prepare for their Oral Presentation by having them practice at home. Teachers will be grading off of the following rubric, looking for things like eye contact, a good volume/tone of voice, having an organized presentation with a beginning, middle, and end. 

PDF of Weekly Verse, Spelling, Reminders

This week’s highlights:

• Science Animal Research Project is under way!
• Social Studies Ocean/Continent Project is just starting up.
• International Night Preparation is keeping us busy. Students are doing their best coloring and designing to get our India booth ready to display the best and most interesting facts they’ve been learning. ***Please remember to bring in $10 donation for 2nd grade. The money will be spent on the food that we are handing out. To be clear, the donation is different than the tickets. Please also make sure to buy tickets for yourself and your family members so you can join in on the fun at 5:30 on Friday!

PDF of Week’s Spelling, Verse, Reminders

Highlights for 2nd grade in the upcoming week:

• $10 donations for each student will help us to prepare an amazing Indian experience for the International Night on November 18th (get tickets through the PTF now!) A giant thank you for all of the support from so many parents who are helping to organize, design, research, and assist in so many ways for our country presentation. It’s going to be a beautiful, intriguing, and delicious display!
• Permission slips for the Rotary Club Writing Competition need to come back to school in order for students’ writing to be submitted. If you have not signed, please print off a copy and sign it ASAP 🙂 The submission deadline is Friday the 11th!
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  • Permission Slip to sign and print
• Students will begin researching for their Science Report on an animal of their choice as well as for their Social Studies Report on a continent/ocean of their choice. We will be guiding students through the research and report writing process. Please feel free to ask your child what they have picked and what facts they are learning as they go! We will do oral presentations at the end in order to have students share their new knowledge with peers and to practice good public speaking.
• Laptops have been made available for 2nd grade students. They will be set up in Ms. Mittelman’s classroom to use before and after school so that students have more time to take AR book tests. Please feel free to come in with your student and help them select quizzes for recently read books so they can test their comprehension skills and earn themselves points.

Thank you kindly to all who made time to attend PTCs or to make separate appointments. We are so pleased to have supportive, active parents on board. It is an amazing blessing for each student to be raised in such an intentional household. Here’s to continued learning for all of us,

Ms. Maurice and Ms. Mittelman