Second Grade: Day 75

Today is Monday and it’s the first day back from Christmas vacation.

It was a long day for Isabel but she made it through; just a little sluggish toward the end.

Teacher Mrs. A is delayed back east delayed in a winter storm and will not be back until Friday. So the class has a substitute, Mrs. V for the week. Today, Mrs. V, forgot about recess. Isabel was bummed out about that since she had a few gifts to give to friends during that time. No big deal there is always tomorrow.

The Bible verse for this week is…

“In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? – Psalm 56:11

S.a.T. this week is to share your favorite Christmas gift – anything! Just share! Isabel shared that she got a Nintendo 3D DS.

The new year brings with it new skills to learn at school like CURSIVE! Isabel has been wanted to learn this forever, she says. This week they will learn lowercase cursive; “i”, “t” and “u”. Teacher Mrs. A asks that the kids ONLY practice the letters that are given each week. Also NO NAMES are allowed in cursive!

Spelling words for the week are…

smooth
roots
food
scooter
boot
broom
moon
cartoon
roof
spoon
springtime
ostrich
answer
paper
page
discover: find out, learn for the first time
energy: the power to do things
forecast: predict
shed: throw off
source: a place from which something comes

Language arts this week is proper nouns and “The Secret Life of Trees“.

Classwork…

Isabel ended up leaving her homework folder at school.

Spelling Bee…

For the past 4 days we have been working on words she doesn’t know.

There are

  • 115 easy words
  • 237 average words
  • 109 difficult words
  • 461 published words total
  • the longest word is “friendliness”
  • the shortest words are “aim”, “eye” and “its”

Isabel has been working hard and has only about 70 of them to learn before the Bee on the 24th of January.

Looking forward to the competition!