A View of Grade Two

Equipping students to impact the world for Christ Do Hard Things

December 3, 2012

Dear Parents, We reached over 1000 links for our blessing chain. Thank you to Mr. Seely, Mr. Sawada and Mrs. Yamato for photos and to Mr. Vander Haak, Mrs. Willson, Mr. Enns and Mrs. Schraven for helping out. Please check on Briskys and Teddys blogs to find out what we have been learning about. Language arts - This week we will be continuing our focus on non-fiction books. We'll also be enjoying different versions of the well-known story of the gingerbread boy who ran away. At the end of the week we will be baking our own gingerbread people! We will be mixing the dough on Thursday, chilling it overnight, and baking cookies on Friday. If any parents are available on Friday morning to help roll out the dough and assist the students in cutting and decorating cookies, please email us or send a note. jhino@caj.or.jp awordell@caj.or.jp The students are doing a very good job on their presentations from their research. I hope to have them on the blog soon. Stop by and see all the projects in the hallway. Bible - We are continuing our stories about who is Jesus. We will be looking Peters Confession, the Transfiguration, Friend of Children and the Rich Young Ruler.

Mathematics - We will begin our Geometry unit looking at 2- and 3-dimensional shapes. Some of the vocabulary we will be working on this week: point, line, parallel, non-parallel and polygon.

Important Dates
Thursday, Dec 6 - Singing Chapel - 8:30 a.m. auditorium - Please join us Friday, Dec 7 - Baking Gingerbread cookies - 8:45 a.m - Can you help? Middle school Christmas concert - 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec 13 - Class Christmas Party 2:30 3:30 p.m. PIP - 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. - Contact Poppy Roberts for more information Friday, Dec 14 - Christmas Program - 2:00 p.m. Dec 17 - Jan 6 - Christmas Break Monday, Jan 7 - School resumes Thursday, Jan 17 - PIP - 8:30 a.m. Friday, Jan 18 - Staff work day - No school for students

Jesus said to his disciples, If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. Matthew 16:24-25