Happy Chinese New Year

Dear parents,
Grade Two has been working hard to accomplish their academic goals for the week and to acquire virtues like truthfulness, peacefulness, and self-control. In Math class, our goal was to complete chapter 23 on Fractions. The students had fun learning about and sharing what denominators and numerators do. They colored fractions and talked about sharing apples and candy bars. Yali, Mia, Oz, Arya, Tal, Rafaela, Ronnie, Romi, and Bella earned 100% on their fractions test. Congratulations!!

HOMEWORK:
1. READ. READ. READ. Then RECORD :)
2. Write one journal entry each day, even if it is just one sentence. Goals: Use complete sentences with capitals and end punctuation.
3. Finish the Tree booklet project. Rafaela turnes her gorgeous Trre book today. We will share it with the class when we return.
4. Listen to We Are the World, and practice singing. If you were not assigned a part, practice the whole song and a part will be assigned to you when we return. If you have a part already, you still need to know how to sing the whole song, so practice.
5. Eat healthy. Rest well. Enjoy time with your family.

Constructive recess: Grade Two will be having more constructive recesses where the teacher will guide them in their play in order to develop teamwork and cooperative attitudes at the height of active play. They will also have free play time during recess where they can practice cooperation, sharing, and peacefulness. Parents, feel free to allow your child to keep an active play toy in the classroom recess bag. Sports equipment like balls, jumping ropes, and other simple toys that allow children to have active and cooperative play are needed. I am not allowing dolls and breakables to be played with during the school day. The equipment brought to school will be shared with the class, but everyone will know the owner of each item. Therefore, write your child's name on the item before bringing it to school. Also know that with daily use of these items, there will be wear and tear, and things may even break. In such cases, items will not be replaced by other chidren or teachers. However, the child may bring other play equipment to be shared.

Happy Chinese New Year

Shabat Shalom