Wednesday, March 26, 2014

3/26

Homework: Read for 20 minutes,
Math Workbook 15.4,
Social Studies - Interview grandparent/s about how life was the same and different from you now. (See worksheet for instructions)
Spelling Review for quiz,


* Reports were sent home today.

* Parent/teacher conference times have been sent home today as well as the Pre-conference form. Could parents please complete and return the pre-conference form to me on Monday April 7th.

Congratulations to Anita Chen for being the Student of the Week. She volunteered to read a story to the class today and has been a big help for our new class pets.




Tuesday, March 25, 2014

3/25

Homework: Read for 20 minutes,
Math workbook 15.3,
Reading Comprehension Workbook "101 New Pets for Aunt Lee",
Science - Start bringing in materials for your Science Fair project,

Read-a-thon Donations

3/24

Homework: Read for 20 minutes,
Write Spelling word sentences (heavier, lighter, strongest, weakest, fiercer, gentler, cheapest, craziest, smoother, stricter) Bonus Words (scientific question, hypothesis, materials, procedure, result),
Math Workbook 15.2,

Friday, March 21, 2014

March 17 - March 26

The second grade class showed so much spirit this week! It was wonderful to see all the participation. Please enjoy the pictures below.

Congratulations to Kristopher Yeh, Duncan Tseng and Jim Wu for their winning design of the egg shelter competition! Their egg made it through four levels and finally cracked when dropped from the 4th floor. Well done to everyone! Please find pictures below.

In Reading this week we focused on biographies. Next week we will continue with this theme.

For Math this week we completed topic 14 on Measurement and started topic 15, Time and Temperature.

In Science this week we continued working on our Science Fair projects. Next week we will continue to gather materials and prepare for the Fair which will be held on April 22nd.

For Social Studies we started Chapter 4, People Long Ago. We will focus on how life has changed over time and how we live our lives today. Next week we will continue with this theme.

Congratulations to Kristopher Yeh for being this week's Student of the Week! Kristopher showed a lot of enthusiasm for Spirit Week and his team also won the Egg Shelter Design competition. Well done!



Next Week:
Monday - Spelling Quiz: beauty, lazy, sorry, empty, lonely, alley, plenty, turkey, hockey, fifty (Bonus Words: pattern, sway, employee, spy, bold
Wednesday - English Quiz on Adjectives
Thursday - Professional Development Day - No school for students
Friday - Professional Development Day - No school for students

* Please return your Parent/Teacher appointment forms as soon as possible so I may create a schedule.

* Please also send in NT$250. for the Pottery Day which will be held on April 16th.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!






Most Green Cloths Winner is Jungwon


Twin Day. I can't tell you apart!?!!




Twin Day Winners! (Chris and Hyeon)








Red Day Winners! 



Fake or real injury? 






Voting for the class winner.

Crazy Cloths Day







Sean reading the morning story

Ashley reading a morning story

Would any parents like to come in a read a morning story? Let me know! 

Mr. A. reading a bedtime story (couldn't resist to add a picture of Hunter)



Egg Shelter Construction Competition

Planning Stage



Each group gets the same materials.

You can trade materials with other groups.

Each group builds a shelter to protect your egg from a fall.






Work together with your team











 It's coming together!
















 Finished Protect 









If the egg breaks your team is out of the competition.

Are you ready? Time to Drop!

Level 1 Height 


Level 2 height 



Level 3 height (2nd floor)



Level 4 height (3rd floor)


 Our egg broke :(



Level 5 on the 4th floor.




 The winning team!