November 13, 2009
Reminder: Spirit Week starts next week!!
Monday: Wear White (2nd grade)
Tuesday: Fashion disaster (mismatched clothes)
Wednesday: Boy/Girl switch – boys dress as girls and girls dress as boys
(don’t know whose idea this was. We were just told what to do each day)
Thursday: Pajama Day (My Favorite!!)
Friday: Blast from the Past (Poodle skirt, flower power clothes, pilgrims,
etc)
Monday: (Nov. 23rd) Black/Gold Day
Tuesday: (Nov. 24th) Auburn/Alabama Day
The play “Bye Bye Birdie” presented by our student body will be Friday at
7:00 and Saturday at 11:00. Come if you can. It will be great.
New field trip is planned!!!Please send lunch form, money, and permission
slip back by Nov. 20th.
Schedule for Week of November 16th:
Reading:
Vocabulary: Words are from book Strega Nona. Test will be Thursday.
Reading: We will be using Scholastic News and other books to learn about the
history of Thanksgiving. Comprehension quiz will be Wednesday.
Phonics: Long a and e words, short i, open syllable words, vowel digraphs.
Spelling: Words are attached. Test will be Thursday. Study at home nightly.
English: We will be writing paragraphs this week. We will work on spelling,
punctuation, and handwriting. DOL quiz Friday. Look over daily morning work.
Math: We will have a quiz on Chapter 17 Wednesday. We will then begin a
chapter on Geometry. DOM quiz Friday. Look over that daily morning work.
Social Science: History of Thanksgiving here in United States.
I try to put my news letter is on internet weekly.
Strega Nona
Vocabulary Words
1. valuable - very useful or important
2. compliments - nice things you’d say to someone
3. abundance - more than enough
4. hero - a person who does something great
5. sputter- to make a popping noise
6. eavesdrop - to listen to someone secretly
7. town - a place that is smaller than a city
8. fountain – a stream of water used for drinking or decoration
9. barricade – something that blocks a path
10. applause – to show you like something by clapping
Spelling
Unit 14
1.looked
2.good
3.brook
4.football
5.cookie
6.stood
7.full
8.put
9.food
10. school
11. truth
12. room
13. true
14. chew
15. due
16. thankfulness
17. breathe
18. breath
19. century
20. decade
