Hi! Happy May, everyone!!! We've had a FANTASTIC second grade week! We had lots of fun getting things ready for our AMAZING Mother's Day celebration, and we had even more fun celebrating with all of you today! I just love watching the kids get excited about doing something special for someone else. It makes me smile...and I know it makes Jesus smile, too!
We did lots and lots of learning this week! Here are some highlights of what we did:
*Reading - We continued our unit on "Our Country and Its People" by reading a selection called "New Hope" about American pioneer life. We focused on the strategies of making connections, asking questions, and summarizing, and we discussed cause and effect, too!
*Math - We worked on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and we learned about greater than and less than, too!
*Writing - We reviewed letter writing and started writing our end-of-the-year letters to our friends. We discussed what persuasive writing is, too, and wrote a paragraph together persuading people to come to NCS!
*Language Arts - We did LOTS of review!
*Science - We continued learning about energy, focusing on sound evergy. On Monday, our Young Scientists went to the Science Lab and talked about the way whales make sound and how that sound travels through water. We discussed the oil spill and how it may affect our environment. We learned about the human body, too!
*Bible - We practiced our passage, Ephesians 6:10-20, LOTS! We also talked about how we can be missionaries and how we have "beautiful feet" when we spread God's good news!
Here are some important reminders:
*Friday, 5/14 - Last day the children have to wear uniforms!!!
*5/20 - Elementary Concert at Northside Baptist Church - 7:00 PM
*FRIDAY, 5/21 - LAST DAY FOR HOT LUNCHES!!! Please be sure to pack a lunch each day for the last week of school...except Monday when we'll be at Chuck E. Cheese!!!
*Monday, 5/24 - End of the year party at Chuck E. Cheese - You may send extra money with your child that day if you want him/her to be able to buy extra tokens.
*5/26 - FIELD DAY - 9:30-2:30. See Coach Madascz if you'd like to volunteer to help on this fun-filled day! Boys may wear bathing suits and t-shirts, and girls may wear bathing suits under their clothes, because they may get wet!!! Be sure to apply sunscreen to your child before sending him/her to school that day!!!
*5/27 - Last Day of School!!!
This week during my personal devotion time, I've been reading in the book of Job. Whenever I hear a sermon or read a commentary on this Book it usually discusses how "off base" Job's friends were...and later in the book when they started giving advice, they were...but the thing that struck me during my reading this time was Job Chapter 2 verse 13. Prior to this verse, Job had lost his children, his livestock, and his servants, and he had gotten terrible sores all over his body. His friends showed up after hearing about his trouble, and the Bible tells us that "...they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was." His friends just came and sat with him...they didn't even open their mouths. (In fact, when they DO open their mouths later, they say all the wrong things.) We can all learn a valuable lesson here. When people are going through difficult times in their lives, we really don't have to SAY anything. We just need to be there for them!
Have a FANTASTIC weekend!
In Christ's Name,
Mrs. Corsino and Mrs. Ludwig
PS Mrs. Corsino's Star Student next week will be ABIGAIL!!! Mrs. Ludwig's will be GAVIN!!!
PPS Mrs. Corsino is in DESPERATE need of Wal-Mart gift cards and clear page protectors so that she can finish up the memory books for her class! Thanks! :-) (I develop the pictures at www.walmart.com.)
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