Teaching responsibilty to students and Open House

Dear second graders’ parents,
The chopstick lessons in the photos above were taught by Ms. Olivera’s brother. He visited us to show photos of his time in China, when these students (in first grade) were praying for him regularly. We learned how to say “nee-how” to greet each other in the morning, saw octopus eaten as food and busy city street scenes. Learning about a different peoples is an example of a P word: “passport to the world.” God may someday call one of these children to tell Chinese about Him, giving him or her His authority to go make disciples.

We finished our P word booklets on Friday, so this week we will look for these ideas as we study MOSES, a humble man who had lots of “But”s when God called him to go. We’ll be watching for each other to put others before themselves, demonstrating humility. Proverbs says we learn humility first, then experience glory!
VERSE: Psalm 25: 9
”God guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.”

We will practice writing FRIENDLY LETTERS to say “Thank you” to Yena’s mother who talked with 2nd graders about China last Friday. She taught numbers and words she learned in Chinese, since she was a missionary there before coming to Colombia.

Mrs. Green will share with us about missions in CHAPEL on Thursday morning. Each Friday after this, she and her husband will speak in our weekly “Mission Spot”. Ask your child what he or she remembers, and pray God will raise up missionaries from ECA students, to go and teach disciples!

SPELLING WORDS: List B-1: tan, bag, can, beg, so, big, no, bog, pet, bug. List B-2: a, fish, an, odd, the, hill, good, hit, last, step. We will continue to review and reinforce the short vowel sounds, and illustrate, sort and alphabetize these words. Friday’s test will include all 20 words. Each student should draw a picture that shows each sentence her writes.

COMMUNITY CIRCLE happens every Friday morning until 9 am PE class. We discuss positive behaviors we’ve seen in each other, demonstrating Spirit fruit in action: compassion, kindness, patience…..We pass an object around the circle, to help us take turns listening and speaking. It’s a treat to hear kids “tattle” on each other this way!

RAISING RESPONSIBLE STUDENTS is my objective this week. I'll be reading books to describe 4 levels of behavior, illustrated by characters and in your child’s personalized drawing, demonstrated with a ball of paper! You will see your child’s art on your child’s desk when you visit us for ……

ELEMENTARY OPEN HOUSE, THURSDAY from 1:00 – 3:00 pm. I will be describing 2nd grade curriculum and strategies at 1:45 pm. There will be 2 scavenger hunts for you to take with your child, to learn to know people and places in our school and classroom, beginning when you pick up your 2nd grader from our room after lunch. I know my students will be excited to show off our room and work to you! And maybe clean desks, too I look forward to seeing many of you there!

For the sake of the children,
Mrs. Glenda Moyer