October 22

We had another good week, and we finished the theme skills tests. We also had a Math test, so it was a busy week as usual.

We are currently working on getting our October stories "published". We are making our own books. We have two completed! The writing process steps seem to be difficult for the kids. They hadn't had any experience with it last year, so it's a whole new thing to learn!

Our all school Rosary on Wednesday was very nice! It was so helpful for the children to be able to follow along with the prayers on the screen. Thanks to Mr. Bell for putting it together, for Mrs. Parent for taking care of the technical part of it for us, and for Mrs. Marita for leading us in song! It was really a team effort! It's great for the students to be introduced to the rosary - even the Kindergarten have been learning it!

This week we practiced long vowel sounds with words having a vowel-consonant- e pattern. We call the final e our "magic e" since it's the one that magically makes the first vowel a long one! We also learned the two sounds for G. Our reading/spelling/phonics all fit together.

Next week, we will spend more time on our small reading groups, practice nouns and verbs, and finish publishing the October stories.

Spelling words are given on Fridays for the following week. They put them in their student planners. In addition, the kids are asked to study the words they've missed on the weekly spelling test. Many of these are repeated, so it's important to keep a list for them to study at home.

Our second grade liturgy will be November 3rd. Hope you can make it!