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2nd Grade News
May 5-9, 2008
Dear Parents,
As I look at my May calendar hanging on the wall, I wonder if I could get any busier. Many of the days have not just one appointment or obligation, but two or three. I'm sure your families are experiencing the same busyness. It's just a part of this time of the year but an exciting one, to say the least. Our family will be traveling to Kansas City the next two weekends. The first weekend we will celebrate the graduation of our daughter Leah from law school and the following weekend we plan to attend the graduation of our son-in-law, Travis, from med school. Unfortunately I will not be able to be in school on Friday for the Silver Tea as we need to be in KC on Friday but Mrs. Vanessa Te Slaa will be stepping in for me so call her if you have a question or concern.
The kids were a little disappointed about the postponement of the Jog-Walkathon but they certainly didn't want to run in the rain. As you probably already know, it has been rescheduled for the afternoon of May 13. The K - 4th grade students will begin running at 1:30 and would love to have you come to cheer them on if your schedules permit.
This week we will spend a little extra time practicing for the Silver Tea Program. The students are enjoying the songs that Mrs. Van Maanen has taught them and are anxious to perform them. The program begins at 1:30, Friday afternoon. Following the program, there will be refreshments for the moms/dads/grandparents while the students have a snack and then play outdoors. Then the parents may take their children home with them when they leave. I just ask that you make sure you inform Mrs. Te Slaa before you leave so she knows who has left and who still needs to ride the bus home.
We are completing another unit in reading and on Tuesday we will take a unit test over the skills that we have been working on. The final unit of our reading books is entitled "Just Imagine" and covers a number of fun, make-believe stories which will be enjoyable for the students to read.
The suffix "ed" will be the focus of our vowac lessons this week and the spelling words will also be words ending in "ed". Many of these words are review but just have "ed" added on.
1.crawled 8.launched
2.jumped 9.pounded
3.thawed 10.kicked
4.shouted 11.also
5.nailed 12.often
6.heated 13.because
7.followed 14.from
The paragraph for the week is:
I live where there is much snow. Winter has gone and spring has come. I saw a robin busy building a nest.
We will spend a couple more days on Paul and his third missionary journey. The memory verse (and this will be the final memory verse for this year) is one that I not only want the students to learn but one that I want them to keep in their hearts forever. Romans 8:37-39: No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (What a comforting promise!) We will work on this verse for the next 2-3 weeks.
Have an enjoyable week - Welcome Spring!
P.S. The shirts that the students will be wearing for the Silver Tea should be coming very soon!
Mrs. Eekhoff
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