Vocabulary Words for Chapter 4

Here are this weeks vocabulary words - chapter 4 is entitled "Lily Jardine" (Lily Gardens) and centers around Lily the skunk and her idea to make a garden.  She found a way to make her garden project a "win-win" situation, by fulfilling both her mother's needs, and her own... and a bounty of fruits and vegetables was the result.

1. niveler la terre - level the earth

2. planter les graines  - plant the seeds

3. désherber - to weed (pull out the weeds from the garden)

4. arroser- to water

5. les légumes - vegetables

6. le potager - kitchen garden (fruit and vegetable garden)

7. la récolte - the harvest

8. les fruits - fruit

Help your child practice the words a little each day - just like Pokey for his spelling test!

Homework and Enrichment

The students in Grade 2 have homework this weekend - practicing their vocabulary/spelling words for Monday's test.  We sent home a worksheet (half-page), but if it got lost somehow, the words are in our previous post, and you can have them practice on a separate sheet of paper.

As for math, the homework packet really gets started on activity 1.11 for the first unit, (we are on 1.5).  For subsequent units, homework starts earlier in the unit. Here are the areas of learning that you can support at home:

• telling time (it gets trickier after the half-hour point, as the hour hand starts looking a little closer to the following hour)  Here are two worksheets, uploaded to Google docs:  Worksheet 1: (Telling time quarter hour)   -  Answer sheet W1  and  Worksheet 2: (Draw the hands on the clock) - Answer sheet W2
• counting change - students know the coins and their values, but it is worthwhile to give them a chance to play with a handful of change and count the value of the money.  Counting by 5s and 10s should be emphasized... if this is too easy, add more quarters!
• playing games, taking turns (lifelong skills!)