Friday, March 25, 2011

March 28-31

Congratulations to the 2nd grade class for winning the Music Treasure Hunt. Ms. Fay will be having a pizza lunch this Wednesday (3/30) to reward their effort. She says they are allowed to bring in their own snacks, drinks and games for the hour long lunch.

Next week is a 4 day school week, as Friday is a Professional Development day for the teachers.

March 28-31

Monday (3/28) is the spelling test on the following words - nickel, metal, total, eagle, middle, special, final, model, bottle, double.

Reading Test will be Wednesday (3/30) on comprehension and vocabulary. The reading tests are meant to assess content knowledge so there is nothing for the students to study prior to the test.

Thursday is International day. As you know our class is studying Greece. We have been reading Greek Myths and on Thursday we will be making Greek desserts and doing a few Greek activities.

Have a great weekend!

Mr. Anderson
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011



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Friday, March 18, 2011

Notes for March 21-25





Dear Parents,

This week I have a lot of information for you about the proceeding in grade 2.

First, Spirit Week was every successful. It was nice to see so many of the students participate in the different activities. Pictures will be posted soon.

As you probably know by now, Sports Day has been canceled this Saturday. It has been canceled for a few reasons: chance of rain,
uncertainty of the nuclear reactor in Japan, and quite a few students and teachers are sick. Mr. Harris
will reschedule Sports Day in the future, perhaps during the week.

Here are some important dates to keep in mind until the end of school.

March 22 Music Hunt, Mrs. Fay has invited parents into the school to observe this event. It will start at11:00am and will finish at 12:30.

March 28-31 International Week. The students have chosen Greece as the country they would like to research for international week. If you have anything from Greece that your child could bring in for this, please have your child bring it in next week (pictures, books, toys, etc...)

March 31- 3rd quarter reports will go home.

April 1 is a No School for the children, it's a Professional Development Day for the Teachers.

April 4-8 is spring break

April 19-20 is the Parent Teacher Meeting

April 22 Easter Egg Hunt

April 29 Field Trip to the Taichung Science Museum. Parents are welcome to come on the trip. Some addition money will be needed to attend some of the special exhibits (shouldn't be more than 100nt per child)

May 6 Mother's Day

May 9-13 IOWA Testing

May 16-17 Mid Semester Break

June 1 Graduation

June 6 Dragon Boat Races

June 21 Music Performance

More information to come when these dates get closer.


Notes for next week March 21-25.

Monday will be the Spelling Test (collar, proper, motor, favor, bitter, beggar, shower, temper, feather, doctor)

Tuesday will be the Music Hunt, parents are invited to observe this from 11:00-12:30. The 2nd Grade will be taking on the 1st grade using their Music skills.

Thursday will be a Math Quiz on Chapter 15

Have a great weekend.

James Anderson
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Friday, March 11, 2011

March 14-18



Hello Again,

It's been another busy week for the students. I wanted to give a few reminders for next week. Saturday (3/12) is the track day races. Students are asked to be at the school at 8:00am, (not 8:30am like the old newsletter said). Students are to bring their team colored shirt, water bottle, and snack. An email will be sent out by 7:00am if it has been rained out.


Spirit week is next week. Students and teachers are encouraged to participate as much as possible with each of the themes.

Monday - Funky Hair / Most Colorful Clothes

Tuesday- Nerd Day

Wednesday - Students be your teacher / Teacher be your student

Thursday - Green Day (St. Patrick's Day)

Friday - Favorite Character from book, movie, your hero.... you choose

If you child would like to bring in some green food to share with the class on Thursday they are more than welcome.

Spelling test will be on Monday (3/14) on the following words, sailor, harbor, enter, weather, labor, ladder, cellar, chapter, sugar, suffer.

Thursday will be a Reading quiz on highfrequency words, compare and contrast and facts and opinions.
Hopefully I'll see some of you on Saturday. Have a good week.
Mr. Anderson
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Friday, March 4, 2011

March 7-11


Good day to all.
This week has been short but sweet. The students have been busy and excited with class subjects and projects. The students' PowerPoint presentations are going well and they should be putting on the finishing touches next week. We have been researching different ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle and next week the students will be making a poster in their portfolio to display in the school for the up coming earth day.



Congratulations to Tommy for being the Reading King of February and Jonah for being the Homework King of February.

The students have finished up with their stories. On Monday (3/7) the children will be reading their story out loud to the school's librarian, Mr. Coil.

In Math we have started Chapter 13 which is about money. The book uses American money but the main idea is for the students to start adding and subtracting using non-whole numbers. On Friday it was great to see so many students bring in coins and bills from other countries, the kids enjoyed looking at all of the different kinds of money.

Next Saturday (3/12) is the school's field day. Mr. Harris has made teams where each student is to bring in a T-shirt with the color of their team. The colors are as follows; Blue Team - Mackin, Jasper, and Emily. Red Team - Jacob, Angus, Michelle. Green Team - Tommy, Jonah, Annie, Ashley. He also asks that all students bring a water bottle, a snack and sun tan lotion.

Days to remember for week 5, March 7-11

Monday (3/11) is the spelling test on the following words (fireplace, ourselves, all right, forever, breakfast, whenever, everything, meanwhile, afternoon, motorcycle).

Monday (3/7) will also be our presentation day where the students will read their story out loud to the class and Mr. Coil.
Friday (3/11) Math test on Chapter 14.




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