January 16-20

Historical mark - Last week of the first semester!

I would like to congratulate all the students for the successful
Read-a-thon. The class logged over 6,600 extra minutes of reading
during the activity. Also, a special thank you for all the help from
the parents for aiding in calculating the minutes and helping to
collect the money from the sponsors. Finally thank you to all the
sponsors for supporting the students.

This week has been a busy one for our second grade class. In Social
Studies, we continued to research information about Hsinchu and
started writing the first draft of a paper using that information. In
Math, we finished Chapter 11 and started Chapter 12 on subtraction.
In English, we continued to work on Unit 5 Verbs. In Reading we
finished the last story in our Adventures Reading Book.

Next week we will be finishing the Reading Practice Book and
completing the Hsinchu entry onto the students' portfolio. We will
also be concentrating on Chinese New Year activities which will
include a Dragon drawing and the construction of a Chinese Lantern. On
Wednesday the whole school should wear the color red and on Friday they should bring their
own chopsticks to eat lunch.

Congratulations to Tom Lu for being the Student of the Week! He has
been very responsible while working independently.



Student of the Week

Next weeks quiz
- Monday Spelling Quiz: chore, curve, curl, thoroughbred, enormous,
hurdle, foreign, firm, pure, course

Second Graders Reading Tip
Decoding words
Your second-grader should be able to recognize a growing number of
words, using knowledge of word structures and letter-sound
relationships and a variety of strategies to read. Not only do
second-graders develop skills to hear and say separate sounds in
words, but they also use patterns to decode words. Second graders
should be able to read new words by breaking them into syllables. They should also be learning the meanings of many
frequently used prefixes and suffixes.



Which book shall I choose?



Great Book!

Secondary Book Drive