Happy New Year! 2010

Here is hoping you had a wonderful holiday break. One of the favorite activities at my house was playing "Scrabble" with all my grown up kids. So I thought "Scrabble" would be a great keyword for our post this week. I found that knowing a lot of second grade spelling words comes in very handy while playing this game.

THANKS - I offer my sincere thank you to all who gave me gifts this past month. I feel very blessed by your generous offerings of Christmas wishes to me. I especially feel honored to have the privilege of teaching your children. They are sweet and adorable. The variety of their skill levels presents some challenges to me as their teacher but I do honestly enjoy being with them and trying to meet their needs. Thank you again for your generosity.

MATH
We are still really working on a variety of ways to solve story problems with both addition and subtraction and with double-digit numbers. Students should continue to practice counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, and counting money. These are great activities for home practice along with practicing all basic math facts. We will also be doing some work with even and odd numbers this next week.

SPELLING
On December 22nd I sent home spelling lists for Unit 13 –
Spelling Principle – Long O spelling
• oa as in boat
• ow as in bow
• oe as in toe

The students will be tested on these words on this Thursday January 7th.

I will post again in the next couple of days to update on anything new that comes up when we return to school tomorrow. Remember to write the keyword on your child's tracking sheet so they are rewarded for your checking this site. Thanks for using this technology tool to help us keep in touch.