Thank You and Best Wishes in the Future

It is with great sincerity that I write the final blog post for the school year to you. To the parents, thank you for your constant support, communication and understanding. To the students, thank you for your dedication, questions, answers, determination, smiles, laughs, hard work and leadership. Each of you will always hold a special place in my heart.

I encourage you to email me in the near and distant future with pictures of you and your family, school mates or just anything at all. The internet has made our world a small world after all.

Don't forget to "show off" your awesome dancing skills to your friends/family in the future with We're All in This Together. Let that song be a reminder that this year we were all together, as one unit/class, and that is a special bond/relationship that no one but the 17 of us shared together.

Let me leave you with this quote:

~~~Winners never quit and Quitters never win~~~

Which means, always try your best in whatever you do in the future. You are my stars.

Love: Ms. Meyer

Year End Concert Performance!

Year End Events

No School-Monday, June 6th
Talent Show-Tuesday, June 7th (Those performing are: Monica J, Taki, Lora/Hana/Rufat, Monica G, Hana and Sena)
Picnic, Pizza and Park-Wednesday, June 8th (Report Cards go Home and Farewell for Summer)

Homemade Ice-cream

Our students made Ice-cream last week ... for a few reasons!

-It's getting hot outside!
-Back in March the students wrote persuasive writing, and one was asking if they could have ice-cream in May (Congrats Sena and Pranu on your persuasion!)
-In Math we are learning about capacity and volume, what better way to understand cups, ml, pints and gallons than it fill up some measuring tools and EAT!

The method is quite easy:
http://crafts.kaboose.com/ice-cream-in-a-bag.html

Although we did not use Vanilla Extract for dietary reasons. But we did use lots of toppings, sprinkles and cookies afterwards!

Maybe your family can try it soon at home!

Temperatures Around the World

Students,
For Monday's Math test (May 23rd), you will have to know 5 countries, their JULY temperature and their DECEMBER temperature.

Ave Temps

FAMILY SPORTS DAY INFO

SPORTS DAY MAP

Song Lyrics

We're All IN this together

Important Days in May

May 5th-Children's Day (No School)
May 10th-No School
May 14th-Sports Day and Sena's Birthday

Year End Celebration SONG!

Dear Students,
Please practice singing every night :)
Big day is JUNE 2nd!! We will change the word WILD CATS to DOL-PHINS sing along ... !

Also practice the dance as we begin to learn it :)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYATjOZCXng

Everland Field Trip!

Solar Systems! (Science Unit)

REMINDER: IF YOUR SON/DAUGHTER WILL ATTEND EVERLAND (FIELD TRIP) ON WEDNESDAY, PLEASE SEND 20,000 TOMORROW. THIS MONEY GOES TOWARDS THE ENTRANCE. THE SCHOOL IS GETTING A 13,000 DISCOUNT PER CHILD~ WE ARE CHECKING THE WEATHER CLOSELY. IF WE SEE IT WILL RAIN WEDNESDAY WE WILL GO ON THURSDAY AND WILL MAKE THE FINAL DECISION TOMORROW. I WILL UPDATE YOU ON THE BLOG. THANKS

SOLAR SYSTEMS

SPRING has SPRUNG!!!

International Fair!

RIS IF

My apologies

When I made the Word Doc about the money around the world, I accidentally copy and pasted the Afghanistan Money onto the Saudi Arabia table. I didn't realize it until a student pointed it out. I'm sorry! Here is an example of the Saudi Arabian Riyal :)

Homework: Thursday, April 21st

Dear Students:

http://www.pitara.com/activities/quiz/online.asp?qname=currencies

For homework tonight, learn about even MORE currencies (money) from around the world! Your job is to tell me ONE more currency you learned about tonight, tomorrow morning at school :)

http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/earth_day/games.htm

Also, to try to save our planet our homework will be all online for Earth Day! Here are some stories and games to play for Earth Day. Tomorrow I'm going to ask you which one you played or read :)

Ms Meyer

Money from Around the Globe

Check out what our students did in Math Class today!!

Also, Friday is International Day! Students are encouraged to wear traditional clothing. If they don't have any, please ask them to wear their uniforms.

Thanks

Inferring Song

Here is the Song we sing in Language Arts: http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/downloads.html Click the Inferring Song MP3! The words are beside it!

Reading at Home Program

Dear Parents/Students: We have started a new online reading program. Students can read books from their own level. When they read 30 books from this level and do the quiz (and pass) then they receive "points." With the points they can go "go online shopping" to fill up a special place that they choose (you will understand how it works once they start reading and receiving points). I ask that if they can, to record their voice reading, if you have a microphone. Under the book, you can see listen to or read. If you read the book (the eye), then you can record your voice. Please finish the quiz when you are done reading BEFORE you go onto the next book. Ms. Meyer can check from home to see how much you are reading AND hear your voice! :) Have fun! http://www.raz-kids.com/ Log In and Password: rischool2 Then click on your name! :)

Math: Money from Around the World (Or at least our class!)

Instead of focusing on ONE currency, I've decided to ask students to learn about each of their peer's currency. Wednesday they will be tested on: 1-How to draw the flag for the country given 2-The name of the currency 3-They should recognize the money, but not have to draw it


MONEY BLOG -

Math: Korean Money

Students will be asked to learn: 1-What the money looks like (not draw it, but recognize it) 2-The value/worth of each coin/bill 3-The name of each coin/bill They will be tested on Thursday, April 21st :)


Korean MOnety -

Homework Thursday, April 14

http://www.quia.com/ba/41785.html

If you infer when you read then you are "reading between the lines." This means you're a reading detective! You use the clues in the book to predict, find out how the character feels and even use your prior knowledge!

Play this game and use the clues to infer and play battleship!

Have fun!

Earth Day is EVERYDAY

Math Homework for Tonight

Students are asked to draw Korean Won and decide the value. They can either look on this website OR look at actually money at home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_won

Spelling Words (April 11-15)

***ATTENTION: There will be NO MORE HOMEWORK CLUB for this School Year**

Morse Code

Braille

Skype

sign language

telegraph

telephone

communication

Helen Keller

Annie Sullivan

inspiration

frustration

overcome

disability

senses

Plant a Tree Day

Tomorrow (April 12th) we will be planting a tree as a school. We will also be provided with PIZZA for lunch!

Important Dates

APRIL: 7th-WALEED's Birthday 12th-Plant a Tree Day-22nd-International Day (Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated -- a letter was sent home, please return asap): This is a NON-instructional day. 29th- Field Trip (Location to be announced) MAY: 14th-Sports Day

Spelling Words (April 4-8)

revolve orbit moon rotate constellation Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Solar System

Science Homework: Moon (Tues, April 5)

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/moon/facts.htm Click on this link and then answer the questions from the worksheet. Have fun!

Sign Language and Morse Code

Social Studies Students,

For our Communication Unit over the Break you will be asked to learn Sign Language letters A-Z. Please learn the letters AND your name.

Also, please learn just your first name in Morse Code (dots and dashes) by tapping on your hand or on a hard surface.

Be ready for Monday, April 4th!

Solar System

The Earth ROTATES (spins) around an imaginary line called an AXIS. It takes 24 hours or one day to rotate.

The Earth and other planets REVOLVE (move around) the Sun. The path is called an ORBIT. It takes one year (365 and a quarter days) for the Earth to revolve the Sun.

The Moon REVOLVES in an ORBIT around the Earth in about 1 month.

Term 4 Topics

Thank you to all who were able to join me for Parent Teacher Interviews.
If you were unable to join me, and would like to reschedule an appointment, please contact me through email.
Happy Weekend!



TERM 4

Spelling Words: March 25th

Antonyms (Opposites)
freedom captivity
accept refuse
ancient modern
arrival departure
ascend descend
giant dwarf

Interview Times

Grade 2

Science Games

http://www.eduplace.com/science/hmsc/2/d/vocabgames/vcb_2d.html



Hi :) You can take this link to play vocabulary games for the new Science Unit!
We are working on UNIT 9: Motions in the Sky

Enjoy!

Report Cards

Dear Parents,
Sometime between now and Friday, please log into your SIS account
http://www.aesny.org/ris/
to find the report card grades of your child. However, not all grade may be finalized until Friday.
I hope that you have a chance to read over your son/daughter's grades and comments before you join me for the interviews.
Also, please review the grading scale to understand how marks are given.
Looking forward to meeting with you all this weekend,
Ms. Meyer

Grading Scale

Student Council Reps

After Speeches and Votes... I'd like to congratulate...
Monica Jeon and Sena as our grade TWO Student Council Class representatives!
We know you'll relay our ideas and bring back school ideas well!

Spelling Words of the Week (March 14-18)

Synonyms for SAID
laughed
rejoiced
giggled
agonized
groaned
mourned
demanded
preached
ordered
fumed
howled
shrieked
shuddered
quivered
trembled
retorted
replied
answered

Japanese Tragedy

Dear Parents and Students,
Our hearts and prayers go out to our Eastern neighbours in Japan. Yesterday in class we watched some footage and discussed the recent tragedy in Japan.
Our school will be holding a bake sale on Saturday during Parent Interviews. If you would like to donate any baked goods for our students to sell on Saturday that would be greatly appreciated. We will accept any goods on Friday.
Also, we highly encourage you to visit the bake sale and donate anything you can to this cause, as we will send the money over to assist with those who need it.
Many thanks.

Australia Dioramas

During our Social Studies unit (Geography: Focus Australia) students learned SO much about this continent, I'm so proud of them! They all orally explained lots of new concepts they had learned about the culture, food, weather, landforms, people, sports, music and animals. They created really great dipictions of their knowledge with these dioramas :)
Enjoy! Great job all!



AUSTRALIA DIORAMAS

No School Thursday, March 10 and Friday, March 11

Dear Parents,
Due to Professional Developement days for teachers, students will NOT have school Thursday, Friday of next week.

Thank you for your cooperation.

ESLR Awards

Social Responsibility (Abdullah)

* Abdullah displayed social responsibility (helping others) by assisting another Arabic speaking student this week to translate her “Star of the Week” presentation into English for the rest of the class!

Natural Leader (Waleed)

* Waleed displayed skills of a natural leader, as he assisted another student in spelling a word from the board. Great job!

Proactive (Rufat)

* During lunch time play time Rufat accidentally bumped into another student while playing. When he realized what he had done, he offered his hand to help the other student get back up from the ground. Good thinking!

Library Blog

Hi Everyone!
Ms. Friel has started a library blog!

Enjoy!

www.risbooks.blogspot.com

March Calendar

March 2011

ESLR awards

This morning the GRADE TWO ESLR (Expected School Wide Learning Results) winners were ...

Hana demonstrated the actions of a life-long learner as she used Science Vocabulary outside of the classroom during the field trip. She sees the value in taking learning beyond the classroom and into the real world.

Mohammed is demonstrating the traits of a dynamic communicator as he is beginning to use his English speaking skills with his friends in his class.

PS To see school ESLRs ... look at POST below.

ESLR Awards

Dear Parents,
From now on every Friday the school will hold a brief assesmbly with all students. We will be recognizing students who demonstrate some of the ESLRs (Expected School Wide Learning Results). Of course teaching students the curriculum is only one aspect of school. We also teach them how to be contributing members of our society, now and in the future. As such, these ESLRs in the poster below model what we are looking for among students.
Thanks
Ms Meyer

ESLRmascotposter[1]

Spelling Words (Feb 28-Mar 4) (Group 1 - not ESL)

Word Families (-ought and –ould)

bought
brought
fought
ought
sought
thought
could
should
would

(As a result of homework club on Thursday after school, many students do not bring home their homework folders. It may be difficult to have their spelling words to study for Friday's test. I will begin posting the words for this reason).

Field Trip (SLEDDING)