Monday, October 2, 2000

This Week!

This week we will begin our weekly spelling

tests. We will begin with only ten words. These

words were taken from the list of twenty words that

were introduced last week with our story entitled

The Storm. Each week we will continue to draw

words from the previous week’s story words. Tests

will be given on Friday.

In reading we will be working on three short

stories. I have included all three with the newsletter

today.

Bird Feeder

With

the return of

food to our

feeder, the

birds are

thoroughly

enjoying their

daily feast. We

are going

through about a

pound of seed each day, plus a handful of unsalted

peanuts. The children have thoroughly enjoyed

watching the Blue Jays come to check out those

peanuts. It is neat to watch them pick up several of

them, until they find the heaviest one, and then off

they fly. We would appreciate any contributions

the children can make to the bird seed supply. We

will also be putting up a goldfinch feeder to keep

them happy. I want to see if the children can

identify them even though their wonderful yellow

color virtually disappears during the winter months.

Open House

Open House is

scheduled for this

Thursday, October 5

th

beginning at 6:15 with the

P.T.A. meeting. Please

mark your calendars. I

am looking forward to

talking with you, and

giving you an overview of

our Second Grade

program through the

assistance of a Power

Point Presentation. Our presentation will begin

immediately following the P.T.A. meeting.

Book Fair

Our Fall Book Fair will be held during the

Open House hours and will be sponsored by “Kids

Konnection” in the cafeteria.

Columbus Day

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Please note that there will be

no school

for

the children on Monday, October 9

th

in celebration

of Columbus Day.