Here's a look at our week:

Reading: This week we learned about Cause and Effect. We looked for cause and effect in the world around us, played a matching game, and identified cause and effect in several different books.

Writing: We began our week by learning how to take notes on nonfiction passages. We practiced reading a passage and finding the important information. Then we took that information and put it in our own words. After learning how to take notes, we started our Continent Research Project in groups. For the next few weeks, we will research different topics about our continents and then make a poster to present our findings. We also learned about contractions and performed Contraction Surgery.

Math: In Math we finished our chapter on three digit subtraction and took our test on Friday.

Bible: This week we finished learning about Jesus' miracles. We learned about Jesus healing a man who was blind and raising one of his friends back from the dead. Through these stories we learned that Jesus has power over all kinds of sickness and even over death.

Important Information:

1. Spelling Words: close, brave, through, place, crash, clothes, threw, glad, flash, ground, traffic, prize, strange, drive, seen, become

2. Memory Verse: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6

3. Next week is Service Week. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the 1st and 2nd graders will be participating in a Kid's Club led by our High School and Middle School students. This club will be in the morning and then we will have regular school in the afternoon.

4. Philippines Donations: One of the Service Week projects is to gather donations to be sent to the Philippines. On Friday each student received a flyer telling what types of items can be donated. Our goal as an Elementary is to get 200 items to donate.

5. Next Tuesday is Valentines Day! We will be having a small celebration at the end of the day. If your child would like to bring Valentines for the class they are welcome to do so, please just make sure they bring one for each member of our class (we now have 19 students). This is not a requirement, but if you would like to send Valentines, please do so on Tuesday.

6. Our Field Trip is coming up on Friday, February 24th. If you have any questions about that day, please let me know!

Upcoming Events:
2/14 - Valentine's Day
2/20 - President's Day - No School
2/21 - Progress Report
2/24 - Field Trip to the Aquarium
3/13 - No School
3/20 - Student Led Conference
3/24 - End of 3rd Quarter

Have a good weekend!