This Coming Week...

“Praise and Thanksgiving, let everyone bring.

Unto our Father for every good thing.

All together, joyfully sing.”

During this month I am reminded to count my blessings and to know from whom my blessings come.  Our Heavenly Father, in all His infinite power looks upon us with unending grace and mercy.  THIS is pure joy!  May you find time during your busy days and schedules to focus on your blessings with a heart of THANKSGIVING!  In our second grade classroom, we are taking time each day to share some of our blessings.

Now, as I look at the coming week with its lessons and activities, I would like to highlight these things:

 Reading: 

This month in reading your child will pay close attention to the characters they read about.  They will see that these characters have wants/needs and problems to be faced.  As readers, we will practice walking in the characters shoes, taking on the events and challenges the characters face, and using this thinking to make predictions.  Your child’s book boxes will have a variety of ‘good-fit’ books that have a strong character presences.  Your child will then share these books with his/her reading partner and continue great ‘book talk’.

Writing: 

We will begin a month long study on writing poetry.  The first steps in writing poetry is to immerse ourselves in reading poetry. Each lesson will begin with reading/sharing poems. This week we will focus on looking at objects with a poet’s eye and start making our poems sound like music-using line breaks.

Math:

We began learning how to do two-digit addition.  This week we will learn two methods/strategies: New groups below and show all totals.  Your child will be coming home with a paper on Monday explaining these two methods.  This will help you have a better understanding of the strategies taught.  Math homework continues to be due each Friday.

Social Studies:

This week we will begin Social Studies.  In second grade, all our units of study will focus on our local community.  This week we will talk about our families.  Please have your child bring in a picture of his/her family.  We will be using this picture in our Social Studies lesson this week.  Feel free to email me a picture-if this is easier.  I can make a copy at school.

Bible:

The Bible has many names for Jesus:  King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Messiah, Savior, Alpha and Omega etc.  Each of these names describes who Jesus was.  As we listen to Bible stories this week, we will hear many new names for Jesus.  This week’s Bible stories will focus on the miracles of Jesus. 

As you can see, we have a full week of learning.  Continue to pray daily for the work your child is doing.  Pray that your child will glorify God in all things-work and play!

In Him,

Stacia Vogelzang