Helpful Highlights
LOWER SCHOOL STEAM PARADE!!!
On Friday, November 20th, Lower School will be hosting our NCCS Thanksgiving STEAM Parade! Each grade is working hard on their STEAM challenges. Parents … grab your lawn chairs and plan to line the street to watch our floats, balloons, artwork, instruments and so much MORE! Yummy pies will be served after our parade!
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ENDS
Remember clocks “fall back” one hour on Saturday night. Enjoy an extra hour of sleep!
NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY & TUESDAY!
Just a reminder that November 2nd and 3rd are Professional Development Days. Students have 2 days off! Since it’s such a short week, there will be no Spelling Test on November 6th. We will still offer the Bible Verse Test, as a bonus grade! If students choose to take the test, thet get an extra grade in the gradebook for Bible. If they choose not to, there will be no penalty and will not affect their overall grade.
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP
Normally, 2nd Grade takes some AWESOME Field Trips!!! Due to COVID, we are not allowed to go on any right now; so, we decided to do the second best thing and bring them to us!!! On December 4th, our second graders will have the opportunity to tour the Atlanta Botanical Gardens virtually. We will get to fall down the rabbit hole and into the Garden’s Alice’s Wonderland Reimagined exhibit. Students get to meet the main characters in this year’s show and get a behind the scenes look at how the giant plant sculptures were created. We also get to meet a few members of the Garden’s amphibian collection and study their adaptations and behaviors with the Garden’s knowledgeable Education Team. They will show us how they care for the animals and teach us about amphibians’ habitats, life cycles, and relationships with plants. It goes right along with our Science unit!!!
Loving Learning
Right now, we are loving learning about:
Bible - Our lesson this week focuses on Moses being afraid, and how God can calm us when we are afraid. We will also learn about walking by faith and not by sight.
Bible - Our lesson this week focuses on Moses being afraid, and how God can calm us when we are afraid. We will also learn about walking by faith and not by sight.
Phonics / Spelling
Spelling Focus: Review spellings of long vowel sounds and go over open & closed syllables. There is no new list this week and no test.
Grammar / Creative Writing - We will begin Ch. 5: Verbs. This week we will locate action words in a sentence, identify now action verbs, change verbs from present to past tense, and determine subject-verb agreement.
Reading - We continue our second unit of Foundations & Frameworks.
Comprehension Focus: Retelling
Pattern Statement: Oral restating requires organizing one’s thoughts.
Visual Tool: Flow Chart
SPECS Logs: Reader’s Response, Visual Tool, Reflection (Today, I learned…..)
Vocabulary: grooming, collide, soggy, tumbleweeds, canyon, souvenir, drooling, wick, whitecaps, muskrat
Math - We continue Unit 3 learning how to find missing addends, and subtraction strategies, such as “counting on” and “counting back.”
Science - We will begin a new unit, in which students will obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how weather, plants, animals, and humans cause changes to the environment. Our first topic will be The Water Cycle, as it ties in with life cycles (i.e. everything goes through a natural cycle).
Save the Date
November 6 - End of Trimester 1
November 20 - Thanksgiving Parade
November 23 - 27 - Thanksgiving Break!
