Noticias 2D
Queridos Padres,

Devotions are always some of my favorite times with my students, and I wanted to share with you how they are enjoying and reflecting on our almighty God. I am humbled, amazed and SO grateful that we get to serve a God who loves us unconditionally.

I also want to thank the parents who will be helping us monitoring the classroom while I have lunch with one or two students on Friday. During this time the children and I can share more. 

Thanks for your continued prayers for unity throughout this year! 

Blessings,

Hilda Durán

This Week:
Bible Memory Verse: Most of them did awesomely! Thanks for all your help at home. Our Next Bible Verse is Psalm 105:4-6
Due Date: September 30
Bible: We have wrapped up our first Bible unit about “The Christian Life” and James. Now we are going back to Old Testament times. Late last week we talked about the creation story and celebrated how creative and powerful our God is by focusing on these words... Y DIOS DIJO. AND GOD SAID. With only words he made everything... it doesn’t get more powerful than that! This week will review a ton from the Old Testament that was covered in first grade; we’ll cover Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the judges, and the kings (Saul, David, and Solomon)! Did I mention that it’s going to be a brief review? :) 
Literature Selection: Quique duerme fuera de casa (Ira Sleeps Over Phonics: consonantes que coinciden (b con v)

Word Wall Words: veo, bueno, bien, viene, olvidar.
Poem: La gata Maroma
Reading: This week we will begin to build stamina as we read with a friend.
This will be a crucial part of our reading program and we’ll learn how to make good use of this time. We will learn how and when to help our partner during reading by encouraging the use of our reading strategies. We’ll also focus on dividing words into syllables and looking for parts in words that we already know (such as gozo in gozoso). 
Writing: This week we will continue zooming in on the heart of our stories. We’ll learn how to reveal the most important part and include details about emotions. We will also focus on integrating capital letters and periods to make sure we are writing complete sentences.
Math: We are working identifying numbers as odd or even. Later this week we will work in equations chains and word problems. They are doing amazing job during Math time.
Social Studies: This week We are moving into our second social studies unit which focuses on where our community is geographically. We will learn about maps (map keys, titles, and symbols) as well as making a map of our local community. I know many of you are from Holland, Hudsonville, etc., but to keep us all on the same page we are going to focus on Zeeland because it is our local school community.

“Housekeeping” Items:
September 20: NO PM busing
September 26: Field trip to Crane’s Apple Orchard! Kids will need a sack lunch, drink, good walking shoes, and dressed for the weather. We will leave right away in the morning (8:50) and return after lunch.
September 27: No School 
September 30: School Pictures

    Noticias 2D
Queridos Padres,

Thank you so much to all parents for coming to our info meetings last week Thursday. It was a pleasure to meet you! I’d also like to thank Erin Bremer our fearless room-mom leader, for heading up this year’s parent volunteers. Thanks to all of you who have already volunteered to help out this year. I am blown away!

Finally, I am looking forward to this first full week of school. We have practiced most routines and classroom expectations and will begin to pick up the pace a bit more as we dive deeper into academic content. Parents, I’ve tried to take a lot of pictures and put them on Facebook with the hope that you will get a glimpse of how hard your child has been working.

Thanks for your continued prayers for unity throughout this year! 

Blessings,

Hilda Durán

This Week:
Bible Memory Verse: James 1: 19-20 Due Date: September 14
Bible: We will continue learning from the book of James and its lessons
to Christians. This week our key lessons will be controlling our tongues (a tough one!) and the power of prayer. During this time I teach them about how much God loves it when we talk to him because he wants to be our father, savior, and best friend. Finally, keep working on our Bible memory work as I will give a fill-in-the-blank quiz. Thanks for sending words of encouragement to their practices on seesaw, that means a lot to them :)
Literature Selection: La Señorita Nelson ha desaparecido (Miss Nelson is Missing)

Phonics: syllable classification: los diphthongs
Word Wall Words: fui, afuera, luego, puedo, tiene.
Poem: Lo que no muere
Reading: We will work on going back to reread when we don’t
understand something. We will also begin reading with a friend as part of our Daily 3 reading this week and will spend much time practicing how to do this well! Finally, we will learn about “good fit books” as books that fit our purpose (to learn, be entertained), interests (animals, adventures, humor), level of comprehension (do I understand what I read?), and knowledge of the words (can I read most of them well?). 
Writing: Our writer’s workshop is busy with story writing! This week we’ll learn more about discovering small moments, partnerships in writing, and stretching out small moment stories with many details. 
Math: We are working finding teen Math Mountains and relate to addition problems with two unknown addends; practice addition and subtraction with totals less than or equal to 20.
Social Studies: This week we will continue describing different communities, comparing different kinds of communities and knowing our Local Community, Zeeland.

“Housekeeping” Items:
Library books: Our first library day will be Monday, Sept. 9. Your child
will be allowed to take 2 books home, both of which should be returned next week Monday so that he/she can check out 2 new books!
Children are invited to bring something special to share with their friends. For years I have been doing it not only to promote the production of the second language but also to help them socialize. Thank you for all your support. :)
September 26: Field trip to Crane’s Apple Orchard! Kids will need a sack lunch, drink, good walking shoes, and dressed for the weather. We will leave right away in the morning (8:50) and return after lunch. Thanks in advance for all your help with it! 
September 27: No School
September 30-October3: School Pictures

    Noticias 2D
Queridos Padres,

I hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend! Welcome back to the school routine. We’re easing back into things here in second grade. Last week was just absolutely awesome! Students, I know many of you were tired by the end of the day, but I was so impressed by the hard work and enthusiasm you showed.
Did you check out the pictures of day 1 that I put on our class Facebook page? So cute! 
Our class newsletter will be emailed out on the first school day of every week. I will always write a quick note, remind you of upcoming events, and supply you with our curricular “agenda” of the week.
Our Class Blog is a great resource!
http://laclasedelamaestraduran.blogspot.com/
At this Blog, you’ll find under My Favorite Websites so many links such as audio versions of our Bible memory work, Seesaw, RazKids, Xtramath, schedules, and others.

Send me! is our school theme for this year. We will learn about and reflect on this verse much throughout the year, and I encourage you to further foster these discussions at home! ¡ Muchas Gracias!

Thanks for your prayers! 

Blessings,

Hilda Durán

This Week:
Bible Memory Verse: James 1: 19-20 Due Date: September 14
Bible: After reviewing The four Biblical Truths, we are beginning our year out by looking at the book of James and its life lessons for Christians. We will learn about being slow to speak and quick to listen. We’ll also learn about the importance of listening to God and responding faithfully to Him.                
Literature Selection: La Señorita Nelson ha desaparecido (Miss Nelson is Missing)

Phonics: consonant groups (bl, cr, etc.)
Word Wall Words: y, yo, ya, brincar, otras,
Poem: Las estaciones
Reading: We’re excited to use The Daily Five for our literacy block! Last week we talked about 3 ways to read a book: read the pictures, read the words, retell the story in your own words. This week we’ll keep building up our independent reading stamina and practice picking books that “fit” our level just right. I will also be benchmarking students to find their perfect instructional reading level in Spanish.
Writing: This week we’ll continue our writer’s workshop by working on writing independently and writing small moment stories.
Math: We’ll look at addition and subtraction fact to 10.
Social Studies: We are going to start studying What is a community? Why do families live in communities?
Science: We will be alternating Social Studies and Science units this year, which we are very excited about. For this reason, we will begin Science later this semester.

“Housekeeping” Items:
September 5: Parent Information Meetings you can attend at 6:00 or 6:45pm
September 20: No PM Busing
September 26: Field trip to Crane’s Apple Orchard! Kids will need a sack lunch, drink, good walking shoes, and dressed for the weather. We will leave right away in the morning (8:50) and return after lunch. Feel free to email me if you considerer be a chaperone for this field trip. Thanks in advance for all your help with it! :)
September 27: No School 

From the Immersion Director

Are you looking for an opportunity for you child to use his or her Spanish in an authentic setting? Mecdonia Baptist Church is going to put on a Christmas musical in Spanish and are inviting any intersted students to join them. This is for and children from 1st-8th grade who are enjoy being on stage, and for those who would rather work behind the scenes helping with props, etc. Practices will be about twice a week starting in the middle of September. There will be an informational meeting Saturday Sept 7 - 10 am at Macedonia Baptist Church 

(101 W. 17th St., Holland MI)
Contacts: Sandy Burgos 616-795-8270 Elda Haak 616-414-2341