4-23-18 I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation. I spent a few days in Chicago so I could celebrate baby Brendan's christening. Daughter Kerry was there from San Francisco, Meg and Josh from the Cape, and Maura from RI. We were missing Bridget but at 8 + months pregnant it was probably a good idea that she stayed behind! We had a quick run-through today for First Communion and the children did a great job. We will have a few more practices. A letter with a few final reminders will go home at the end of the week. Unless it is pouring we will still be going on our Field Trip. Make sure the children have rain jackets and pack a lunch in a BROWN BAG that can be thrown away. Please DO NOT PACK A LUNCH BOX!! We will start learning about telling time tomorrow. Target skills this week are consonants ph, gh, ff.
Have a great week!
Mary Ann McKenney
EMAIL: mamckenney@saintkevinschool.org
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I LOVE this article!
http://www.moultrienews.com/opinion/teacher-to-parent---positive-reinforcement-doesn-t-work/article_cf5c0206-2522-11e7-98ed-b3a9b0e7d4f6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
Some Cape Cod schools drop homework for younger students
http://capecodtimes.com/news/
School bans homework and assigns reading and playing instead
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/27/1638352/-After-a-school-bans-homework-and-assigns-reading-and-playing-instead-they-re-seeing-great-results?detail=facebook
Second grade reading list from Goodreads website
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/2nd-grade-reading-list
I find the success of schools in Finland fascinating!
Michael Moore and the Finnish Education System - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com.
Very interesting and frightening article. A bit dramatic but worth taking another look at how much screen time your child has.
http://abc7news.com/1664438/ How Screens Turn Kids into Psychotic Junkies
MONDAY
*Spelling: Spelling Packet.
Complete the spelling packet and return by Friday. Our new spelling words this week are: phone, enough, stuff, laugh, puff. giraffe, graph, tough, photo, rough.
*Book Club
*RETURN LIBRARY BOOK IF IT WAS NOT RETURNED ON FRIDAY!
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TUESDAY
*Making Words: CUT OUT THE LETTERS on the top of your homework paper. DO THIS STEP FIRST. See how many words you can make. What word uses all of the letters? List the words by Word Families on the back of the paper. (e,i,c,c,k,r,t,s). This is due on Wednesday.
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
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WEDNESDAY
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
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THURSDAY
*Study Spelling
*Spelling Packet is due Friday.
*Book Club
*RETURN RED BOOK CLUB FOLDER ON FRIDAY
*RETURN LIBRARY BOOK ON FRIDAY (they are returned to the library on Monday)
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*RETURN YELLOW FRIDAY FOLDER ON MONDAY!
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4/25 Field Trip to Casey Farm
4/27 Dress Down Day $5.00
4/27 Spring Fling
PLEASE CHECK SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR ADDITIONAL DATES AND SCHOOL EVENTS
www.ABCYa.com - reading, math
www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
www.planetesme.com - How To Get Your Child To Love Reading
www.robertmunsch.com - reading
www.starfall.com - reading
www.xtramath.org - math
www.storylineonline.net**