I would like to wish all of you and your families a Happy Holiday Season ...............................and a safe and Happy New Year! .................................
Let's keep up the great partnership! 2010 will be a great year for 2C!

I regret to announce that I will be leaving early next week. Due to family concerns, I need to be in the US on Tuesday. The children will be busy practising for the Xmas programme and I have activities planned for the week. They will be in good hands and the substitute teacher will do a great job ! Looking forward to seeing you and your children in the New Year!

Our class Christmas Party will take place on Friday,December 18th! Each child should bring in healthy snacks or drinks to share! No school uniform on Friday! School ends at noon!

Our Junior School "Celebrations around the World" Christmas event takes place on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 2.00 pm ( 14.00). The children are quite excited about the event and have been practising very hard ! No school uniform on this day! Children should come to school wearing a green or red T-shirt. No other colors please!

We had a wonderful week working on our unit "From Field to Table'. Natalia's mom and Luisa's dad acted as our chefs and took us through the process of making waffles and Cascais butter cookies! You can see for yourselves by watching the slide show!The children were actively engaged in these activities and enjoyed the delicious treats! We continued reading about Miguel and his tomatoes and learned what happened to the tomatoes in the factory! This is our last week on the unit and next week we will start a new unit! Start saving plastics ( bottless, caps, lids, bubble wrap.etc), papers ( recycled Xmas paper works well), old socks, egg cartons, cereal boxes, and more...

This week we moved on to the sound of long /o/ and read the story Mr. Bones and Mrs. Jones. The children found the story humorous and easy to read. They found out that the /ow/ and /oe/ sounds placed at the end of a word say the name of letter O. The vowel combination /oa/ though appeared in the center of words. This confused the children a bit but they began to understand better when they noticed patterns in words. The long /0-e/ sound appeared in word families and the children found this easy to understand. The children have almost completed their shared writing activity with their partners! The children are making their book covers and will take turns sending them home to share with you once they are ready!

This week we worked on story problems with addition and subtraction facts. The children learned to pick out the important information in a story problem and discussed clues which helped them sort through the information. The children are gaining a good understanding of base ten and numbers to 20. This week we used a tens/ones chart, cube and number cards and constructed towers of ten and ones to denote numbers to 20 and then investigated how to make 30. Some children still confuse the teens but with reinforcement they are quickly grasping the concepts.