2C Weekly Newsletter Monday, January 4, 2010 Spelling: Theme 4, Lesson 17-Words with short /ea/ heavy steady bread sweat head thread breath ready meant health meadow instead breakfast treasure feather weather spread dead lead wealthy TEST THURSDAY English: We will continue to cover adjectives. Please use the notes in the English notebook to study as well as the completed workbook pages in the Grammar workbook for Lesson 17. TEST FRIDAY Reading: Theme 4, Lesson 17: Our story this week is "Annie's Gift." We are now in the second reading book for the last half of the year. There will no longer be high frequency words in the reading lessons. However, there will continue to be Robust Vocabulary. The reading tests will continue to have questions on the weekly focus skill and will also begin to have questions on the weekly focus strategy. This week's focus skill and focus strategy is the same as last week:the setting of a story and following directions. TEST FRIDAY Math: Chapter 15-Understanding Time. TEST FRIDAY Religion: Chapter 24, "We Pray". TEST FRIDAY First Reconcilliation for the second grade will be February 25th. I will be giving the students a list of prayers to begin practicing in preperation for First Reconcilliation as well as First Holy Communion. The date for First Holy Communion has been set for Saturday, April 24, 2010. Science: Unit C, Chapter 6. We will test on this chapter on Thursday, January 14. We will have a report on dinosaurs this week that will be taken for a grade. The students may choose any dinosaur they wish. I will have some books in the classroom that may be of some help. Social Studies: Midwest States: Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Springfield, Illinois; Jefferson City, Missouri; Topeka, Kansas; Lincoln, Nebraska; DesMoines, Iowa; Pierre, South Dakota; Bismarck, North Dakota; St. Paul, Minnesota; Madison, Wisconsin; Lansing, Michigan. TEST TBA