Week 16

We're in for a week of gloomy, cloudy, wet weather!  I've been encouraging the second graders to come prepared with warm, waterproof clothes.

Christmas Program:
The K-8 grade Christmas program is on Thursday, December 21 at both 2 PM and 6 PM.  For the 2 PM program, students should wear standard of dress.  For the 6 PM program, students can either wear standard of dress, or dressy clothes (no jeans).  Please remember that their dressy clothes should follow the free dress guidelines in the handbook (i.e., no tank tops, nothing shorter than 4 inches above the knee, no stains/holes, etc.).  They should also arrive at school at 5:30 PM for the evening performance.  Please let me know if you have any questions!

Christian Studies:
This week we'll learn about Naaman, who was healed of leprosy with God's power.  It's a great opportunity for us to talk about the impact we can have on those who don't know Jesus by telling them about Him.  It's also really neat for us to make connections between Naaman and our baptism.  We'll also learn about Hoshea and the fall of Israel--it's been fun to teach the 2nd graders about the history of Israel (both the good and the bad), and to see a general thread of God being faithful, regardless of the decisions the Israelites made.

Math:
This week in math we'll finish our module on identifying and counting coins.  We'll start our next module, which will focus on solving problems with money and using dollar amounts.

Language Arts:
This week we'll learn about adding suffixes to words that end in y.  We'll change the y to an i before adding our suffix if there's a consonant before the y, or if we're adding ing.

We'll also take a closer look at our book Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday.  We'll glean some information from the illustrations and use the pictures in conjunction with the text to help us better understand the story.

Social Studies:
We'll take our unit test on North America, and the students will show what they have learned about the continent on which we live.

We'll also have some Christmas activities and we'll have some Christmas program practices!