Week oof 5-13-19. Our Field Trip to Casey Farm is Friday. The children need to wear their gym uniform and sneakers. It may be rainy and it is always cool and breezy there so your child should also have a rain jacket over a sweatshirt. Hats and sunscreen are a good idea if it is sunny. Please pack a BAG lunch. No school lunches will be ordered. Our phonics target skills are inflected endings ed, ing and quotation marks. We have finished our unit on money and are now learning about telling time. I feel like a dinosaur when I tell them about "half past the hour" and "quarter of" the hour! We are moving on to learning about water habitats in science and the regions of our country in Social Studies. Save the date for our Authors' Tea which will be Thursday, June 6.
Have a great week!
Mary Ann McKenney
EMAIL: mamckenney@saintkevinschool.org
FAVORITE BOOKS has changed to Spring 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 PACKET FINISHED FOR THE YEAR
*Spelling: Spelling Packet. PLEASE NOTE ORIGINAL PACKET CHOICES!
Complete the spelling packet and return by Friday. Our new words are:
*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. This is due on Wednesday. (a,i,f,l,m,y)
*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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5/9 Vision Screening
5/10 Dress Down Day
5/17 Field Trip to Casey Farm
5/31 Field Day
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**