1-14-19 Happy Monday! I hope you all had a fun weekend. We have learned a lot about tally tables, graphs, line plots, Venn Diagrams, and range, median, and mode in Math. We are almost ready to move on to double digit addition. Our phonics target skills this week are compound words and adverbs.
The Spelling Packet has been changed and has some different choices. It is still due on Friday. I've gone over the choices twice with the class so hopefully they will remember everything we talked about!
I've given the children their Reconciliation books. Details on how to use these will come home on Friday but basically the books will stay in school during the week, go home on Friday, and be returned to school on Monday.
Please make sure your child has brought in an extra 100 page notebook. The extras that were brought in in September were ruined in our flood and are now needed for journal writing. Thank you!
Have a great week!
Mary Ann McKenney
EMAIL: mamckenney@saintkevinschool.org
FAVORITE BOOKS has changed to Winter titles.
If links below do not open please just copy and paste the web address.
How playing outside makes your kids smarter.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2373141/how-outdoors-makes-your-kids-smarter?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=onsiteshare
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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
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Some Cape Cod schools drop homework for younger students
http://capecodtimes.com/news/
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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
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Second grade reading list from Goodreads website
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/2nd-grade-reading-list
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I find the success of schools in Finland fascinating!
Michael Moore and the Finnish Education System - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com.
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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. PLEASE NOTE NEW PACKET CHOICES!
Complete the spelling packet and return by Friday. Our new spelling words are:
downstairs, houseboat, boyhood, roadway, football, cowboy, railroad, oatmeal, outplay rainbow.
*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. (a,i,b,d,l,r,s,z,z). 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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1/21 MLK Jr. Day - no school
1/25 Dress Down Day
1/27- Catholic Schools Week
2/1
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**