9/22

Taken by Yvette Coort

Dear Parents,

Another successful week in the second grade class!  The students have been doing a great job and are becoming more responsible within the class.

We are off to a great start in reading story books.  Throughout the year we will look at strategies that will help the kids become better readers, as reading is an important part of learning and should be fun rather than "work" for the students.  Please remind your child to write (log) their minutes read each day and to write the name of the book when finished in their library WB.

This past week we finished Chapter 1 in Science (plants) and started our first Social Studies Chapter on Families.  Over the weekend students should continue to gather information and photos of between 8-16 family members.  On Monday we will start to make a family tree in the students’ portfolio.

For next week we will finish Chapter 3 in Math (subtraction) and starting Chapter 4 which is Data, Graphing and Probability.

Quite a few students have lost or broken their red pens. Please ensure your child has at least 2 red pens (or red pencils) as we use them almost every day to review and check our class work.

Quizzes for next week:

Spelling quiz on Monday on the following words: tell, their, these, those, upon, use, wash, which, work, nutrient

Math quiz on Monday on Chapter 3 Subtracting

English quiz on Wednesday Unit 1 “The Sentence”

Congratulations to Victoria Lee for being this week’s student of the week for being the most responsible student!

Best Wishes,

James Anderson

2nd Grade Teacher
Hsinchu International School
http://mranderson2ndgradeclass.blogspot.com/