Thursday 5 February 2015

Welcome Makana!

It was another full week in the 2nd grade! We welcomed Makana to our classroom on Monday.  The students have enjoyed having him back at OCSI and in our class!

In Reading this week, we learned how to use pictures and diagrams in books to help us learn what words mean.  We also practiced reading some non-fiction books.  For writing, we started our research projects and spent the week finding information on our different ocean animals.  Next week, we will start putting all our information into a report form.  For Bible, we learned about Jesus healing different people who were sick.  We talked about how Jesus is able to heal people from their sickness and even bring people back from the dead.  On Thursday we studied how Jesus healed a man that had been unable to walk for 38 years.  After Jesus healed him, he told him to go and stop sinning.  We were able to have a great discussion on how Jesus wants to not only heal us, but also wants to help us stop sinning as we grow closer to Him.

In Math, we learned some subtraction strategies and rhymes to help us.  We also looked at arrays and how they are related to multiplication.  The students had fun identifying arrays in our classroom and in their houses.

This week we also had the 1st and 2nd grade Spelling Bee!  We had three contestants from our class who participated: Hideto Ikehara, Steven Ryan, and Shuhei Miyairi.  I was very proud of how each of them studied hard and did their best.  And congratulations to Shuhei Miyairi for earning 1st place!!

Important Announcements:

1. Spelling Words: he's, it's, I'm, I'll, she's, can't, let's, you'll, didn't, they'll, haven't, couldn't, doesn't, wouldn't its, said

2. Bible Memory Verse: Then Jesus said, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry. And whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."  John 6:35

3. The Bazaar is quickly approaching! As a 2nd grade, we have been assigned the Lumpia and Drinks booth.  If you are able to help please see the email that was sent by Mrs. Ikehara or contact me.

4. Monday, February 16th will be a No School Day.


Have a wonderful weekend! :)


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