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Dear parents,
SPELLING is our newest subject, with the first official list from our 2nd grade curriculum, A-1.
top, hat, but, be, and, am, cat,is, red, bed
Students should practice by writing sentences using the words, sorting by vowel sounds, alphabetizing, preparing for the test on Friday. I was pleased with the way my students responded to our first test last week.

READING focuses on the characters of Frog and Toad, in "A Lost Button." We will watch how they act like friends, and apply lessons to friendships in our classroom. Students will identify, sort and write words with o in "box", "toad", and "two." We are tuning our ears to vowel sounds and their various spellings.

MATH centers on partners of 6 (4,2...5,1...3,3...0,6) and doubles (2+2...12+12) Please play oral math games with your child to help these facts become quick and fast from memory.

SCIENCE I hope you heard what happened to our toad last week. We will have photos at Open House as well as the kids´drawings of what they saw. This week we will make pictures of habitats of amphibians and reptiles. High schoolers will teach us how to make paper frogs!

BIBLE We continue to learn about the P words, adding pages to pink or purple booklets. Ask your child to sing the P Word song. Exodus 9:16 is our verse to memorize by Thursday, Sept. 6.

THURSDAY is special for several reasons.
PHOTO DAY for elementary students. Please dress your child appropriately for a yearbook picture.
CHINA: Ms.Olivera´s brother, whom these students prayed for during his travels last year, will show his pictures and stories on Thursday morning, 8-8:40 am.
LAST DAY of school this week, since we teachers go on a retreat with the board members of ECA.

PRAY with me for second graders to learn the JOY that comes from obeying me, and speaking and acting in kind ways to each other. And that I will let PATIENCE fruit grow inside me!

For the sake of the children,
Mrs. Glenda Moyer