Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Science, Spelling, and Sheep

The Science Fair is this Thursday.  The second graders will have a display of work that we are making at school.  It will be wonderful to see all of the families at the fair.  Please take time to explore the experiments, ask questions of the scientists, and talk to your students about new concepts.  The 2nd graders will especially be interested in the 3rd grade toothpaste commercials and maybe it will help them think of ideas for next year.

The Reading story this week is about sheep shearing, wool carding, wool dyeing, and finally weaving. We watched a video today about sheep shearing.  We learned that the wool needs to come off of the sheep in one piece and a crew of shearers will travel together from farm to farm until the sheep are all cared for.  It can take 3 minutes to shear one sheep.  The record time for shearing a sheep is 45 seconds.
We also have been talking about the way Jesus refers to us as sheep.  Sometimes that seems rather nice to be considered as a sheep until we learn more about them.  Learning more about sheep makes us think that sheep are difficult animals to guide and care for.  Our sin does make us a lot like sheep.  We have learned a bible verse which helps us know that the Lord calms our troubled heart even when we act like anxious sheep.  "My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me."  The Lord truly is a Good Shepherd to all of us! 

Unit 23 Spelling Words

1.    helpful
2.    sadly
3.    hopeful            Vocabulary Words
4.    thankful           1.  yarn
5.    slowly               2.  strands
6.    wishful             3.  spinning
7.    kindly               4.  dye
8.    useful               5.  weave
9.    safely              6.  sharpening
10.   painful             7.  duplicated
11.   mouthful           8.  delicious
12.   weakly             9.  directions
13.   jumped
14.   saying
15.   quickly
16.   wonderful

Look for other “ful” and “ly” words in everything you read.  Will you be the first one to type some new words on the comment section of the blog? 

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