Homework and Announcements

Dear parents,
It was exciting to see the Social Studies projects floating into the classroom this morning. The exact due date for the poster is this Thursday, May 13.
Oral presentations will be held both Thursday and Friday.
Students who have their poster done can begin writing a report for the presentation. The report format will be given in class tomorrow (Tuesday). Students need to share, in a report, all of the information that is on the poster, and also be able to answer a few questions or tell a few other facts about the city.

Other progress:
Overall, Grade Two is coming along just fine in the Spelling program. Spelling is being refined and vocabulary is being built with a strong foundation. [Next spell test is Thursday, Lesson 23]

Science: Unit: Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Important points about the properties of the 3 states of matter are being learned through reading, class discussions, discovery, inquiry, and experiments.

Math: We are looking into comparing and ordering numbers in the 100's. This is a nice break after learning to count money.

Language Arts: Through play, students are reviewing parts of speech, digraphs, antonyms and synonyms, and word families.

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
1. Read 20 minutes (or more). Record on the Read-a-thon log
2. Journal entry (Write about your day. What was great about it?)
3. Spelling Lesson 23 -ed and -ing (due Wednesday) p. 136, 137, 138 (Proofreading ONLY), 139 Language Connection and Challenge Yourself.
4. Social Studies "Cities in Israel" project and written report

Special Instructions for Challenge Yourself:
1.Follow the instructions on p. 139. Instead of writing your own sentences, use the sample sentences you find in the Spelling Dictionary in the back of the book.
Shalom