December 26, 2018

Wishing you all my deepest thank you for your generous and thoughtful gifts.  I do appreciate all that you do and realize the sacrifices you make daily.  So thanks for remembering this holiday season and mostly thanks for sharing your angels !!
  Hoping your holiday was as special as mine.

December 19th
Good Morning and Thank you all for your attendance at our concert.  The children worked with much spirit for the presentation.

I have asked my Christmas elves (angels) to complete a secret job for me.  Here it is:  I have a little package I asked them to place under the tree from me to you.  I hope you will allow them the chance to do the job for me.  It will be a reminder of just how angelic your children are to me (I will also keep one of these for myself).

Let me take this opportunity to wish you and your families a Very Merry Christmas!

I also want to thank you for your continued support and generous wishes for my family.

My best present arrives today "Hennie Mars" my grand baby will be staying with my throughout the holiday.

Love, 

Judy Manning

December 12th

The students have earned Red and Green Day back.  We worked to gain 15 tickets to allow us the joy of the  Red and Green Day experience.  They are proud and have, as always, surpassed the goal. So we will celebrate their goodness on Friday, December 19th, with a Slipper party (a little blanket, slippers, a stuffed animal and a robe may be brought in).

I wish our room was equipped with a video machine because yesterday the sight of these children wrapping presents - PRICELESS!!  You as parents also should be extremely proud.  Your love and example shines within these babies every day.

Thank you for all your continued support and enjoy this exciting pre-holiday time.

December 1st
Hoping everyone had a Happy and Blessed holiday.  We are quickly moving towards Christmas and we hope St. Nicholas will visit our school on Friday.  I would appreciate it if you could send in one of your child's shoe. Please be sure to clearly mark your child's shoe with their name.
Reminder*****Friday, December 5th is our game day.  The children may bring in a board game if they wish.

November 19th

The teachers are in need of empty coffee cans….so please your trash is our treasure.

The children had their class picture taken today and the photographer verified that I do indeed of having in my room.

November 18th

As we are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, we have created a feather of Thanksgiving for our Turkey.  Also we made paper plate girl and boy pilgrims, and we could not forget our Indian pals.

We will be preparing for our Thanksgiving Prayer Service scheduled for Tuesday, November 25th, at 2:00 PM.

WISHING ALL MY SECOND GRADE FAMILY A VERY SPECIAL THANKSGIVING DAY.

November 5th

As Thanksgiving approaches, it is a special time to be thankful for the many blessings in our lives.  At home, please discuss with your child all the gifts he/she has to be thankful for, such as a loving family, a comfortable home, playful pets, good friends, etc.

Then in school, your child will be decorating a feather for our turkey.  I will provide a feather for each child (about 12 inches long and 4 inches wide) and magazines, feathers, glitter to decorate their feather.  They will need to have at least five things to display on the feathers.  The feathers will be used as an assessment for Religion.

We will be discussing our blessings this week and begin our feather on Friday for art.  

Thanks for all your support.

November 4, 2014

Happy November!  I appreciated your support during our conferences.  It is easy to see why my children are so sweet.  My many blessings are great.

Our players of the day so far this week are Nicholas Pomeroy and Declan Cashman.  We thank all our math magicians for helping us rank 7th in the school.  Tomorrow we are excited to go to the Science Lab with our sixth grade friends.  We will test our hypothesis. This will be tested to show if food coloring spreads faster in cold water or warm water.

October 27th

GOOD NEWS!!  NO HOMEWORK!!! so the students and their families can enjoy the Saint's Celebration and Halloween.

October 27th

Good News - the children earned ten apples which translates into a Show and Tell Day!  We have decided to have our Show and Tell on Wednesday, October 29th.  I do ask that the students do not bring anything of super value.  We are looking forward this week as we have many exciting activities planned.  We will complete an art craft for Halloween and All Souls Day (November 2nd).  Our Saint Parade is tomorrow at 9 AM (Tues., Oct. 28th).  Show and Tell will be held Wednesday,

October 29th.  Have a SAFE and HAPPY Halloween!!

October 23rd

Belated Happy Birthday to Taylor Bailey and Evan Eichorn!!  Also congratulations to our Players of the Day:  Taylor Bailey, Nicholas Pomeroy, and Sebastian.  All our students have kept us in high ranking as a classroom we say THANKS.  We had an assembly to see Science Explores perform some experiments.  Looking forward to next week and our Saint's Celebration.

October 20, 2014

Happy Monday!  Hopefully you were able to enjoy the beautiful Fall weekend.
Today we are starting the Wild West Unit 2 of the ELA program.  This theme is very exciting for the children.  We are beginning with How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague.  It is a fantasy story so we will look for characters who do things real people can not do, and a setting that may be different from the real world.  Our writing piece will be an Opinion Writing.  The children will write about their favorite season.  We will state our opinion and supply reasons that support the opinion.

October 9, 2014

We have  two students that captured player of the day this week.  Sebastian McNab was player of the for three days in a row..WOW!  Annabella was a player of the day this week too.  Thanks to all our math stars who have helped us rank 11th in the school.

On Wednesday the Warminster Fire Department arrived with two trucks and five volunteers.  We thanked them for all that they do to keep us safe.  Today, we enjoyed Aladdin by the Windy City Players.  The was great.

FYI…..winter uniforms are to be worn as of Monday, October 13th.
Forty Hours will close on Tuesday, Octber 14th.
School Pictures are Wednesday, October 15th
Lunch Orders due on Thursday, October 16th.

Happy Birthday to:  Brian Shammo (October 12th)
                                 Sebastian Mc Nab (October 17th)

October 6, 2014
Mark you calendar for our Saints Celebration.  We plan to have a small prayer service within the classroom and then join the PreK and K for a parade.  More specific information will follow.  As of right now we are planning for Tuesday, October 28th, around 9:00 am.  Stay tuned for more information.

October 2, 2014

Happy October!
We have Annabelle Price, Sebastian McNab, Mason Burlingame as our players of the day.  Also all of our second grade friends have helped to make Room 204, 11th in the school.  Congratulations to my Math Magicians!  We have had a lot of fun creating Leaf People and pets.
FYI - First Friday Mass tomorrow.

September 28, 2014
Hope you all enjoyed this glorious weekend!  Looking forward to another week of school. Just a little information:  there will not be a reading or spelling assessment this week; we will have a math (Thursday or Friday), Religion (Tuesday), and Sentences (Thursday or Friday).  We will be attending First Friday Mass this week and we will keep you all in our prayers.

September 26, 2014



I am so sorry if I did not clearly notify all of my second grade family about our party today.  On Monday, Sept. 22nd, I did try to provide as much information as I thought necessary.  I will be more mindful of this in the future.  

The children are so excited and funny…happily adding their slippers, showing off their prized possessions.  The laughter and smiles PRICELESS!!!!

Thanks for all you do and enjoy this upcoming beautiful weekend.

September 22, 2014
Happy Fall!!  The children are very excited because they have reached the ten apple mark.  This translates into a celebration on Friday, September 26th.  We will have a Sleep Over Party…meaning
bringing in their favorite stuffed animal, and they may bring in slippers.  Please clearly mark their shoes and sneakers so we do not mix up the slippers or shoes.  My little angels earned a great report from the sub on Friday as well as the story telling mom.
Thanks for all you do!
Also, I am in the process of compiling the email addresses, thanks for your patience.
We will be creating a fall tree with paint and q-tips.  If you have a few extra hanging around the house please share.  We are in need of old magazines - your trash is our treasure.
THANKS.

September 18, 2014
Dot Day was a great success.  The children really loved it. They have begun to learn how to type in computer.  Math taught us place value and the children have been successful.  Centers were completed and rainbow writing and constellations proved to be a fun activity.
Our Players of the Day are for Wednesday was Sebastian McNab and Thursday was Maddie Geyer.
Congratulations to all our Math Stars.

September 15, 2014
Thank you for supporting our International Dot Day celebration.  We read the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds.  It encourages courage and recognizing that we all have special talents.  We created a dot that represented each child and displayed it in the hall.  In math we used dots to create addition problems.  After lunch the children and I went outside to play Twister to culminate the day.  The children seemed to enjoy the Dot Day activities.  Thank you again for all the support.

September 7, 2014

Hopefully this beautiful weather will stay with us for the school week.  Remarkably the children stayed focused all week.  We are already working towards a 10 Apple positive behavior reward.  The children have discussed the possibilities and have chosen a "Slumber Party" - they would be permitted to bring slippers to school along with a favorite stuffed animal to share the afternoon.  I will be sure to alert you as to the date of this Prized reward.
Also I am planning to celebrate "International Dot" Day.  We will read the book and complete some dot activities.  One that I would love to bring to life is a game with dots - Twister.  Of course we would need at least a few for the children.  If you have a Twister Game and would be willing to share it for an afternoon, I would appreciate it.  "International Dot" Day is Monday, September 15th.
Looking forward to meeting you at Back To School Night (Tuesday, September 9th).

FYI:  homework will begin after I see everyone on Tuesday, night.

Have a great week!

September 4, 2014

The specials for the second grade, room 204.  Hopefully this will be helpful.
Monday -  Computers
Tuesday - Music
Thursday - Gym
Friday - Spanish
Thanks,
Judy

September 3, 2014

I forgot to tell you about the dreaded contact paper.  Please cover your child's books with contact (the children can identify it better) or brown bags clearly marked.  I would appreciate this task being completed by September 10th.  Hopefully this week will help you out.  THANKS!

September 3, 2014
Second grade students have been troopers enduring the hot, humid weather.  Even with the heat we have been having fun doing the following things:  walking with Jesus sneakers, talking about and completing an activity  for "If You Take a Mouse to School"; creating a tee-shirt showing something fun they did during the summer.  Because of their sensational behavior we enjoyed extra recess time and earned two apples.  When we accumulate 10 we will have a celebration.
Thank you so much for all your support and sharing your child with me.

August 16, 2014

Good Morning to all the future Second Grade Students.  Hopefully you enjoyed the summer break,  I am looking forward to you sharing some of the best things that you did with your family and friends.

Soon we will all be back to school and I know "The Best of the Bunch" will be in second grade.  We have many fun and exciting tasks that we will complete throughout the year.

See You Soon!!!

May 20, 2014

Good Morning, the students are working each day on finals and review.  They have no written homework and please continue to study from the Religion Study Guide each day.
Enjoy the beautiful day!

May 16, 2013

The week of Monday 19th we will begin our assessments for the end of the year.  To insure that the students have ample time and guidance we will work on Math and ELA from Monday to Thursday.
Religion will be administered Tuesday and Wednesday, May 27th and 28th.  I feel confident that the children will do well!! Thanks and enjoy the weekend.

May 15, 2014
May has been a busy time for us.  Our students have achieved another rank in the school for First in Math.  In May room 204 has maintained third and fourth place in the school…..YEAH!!
Our players of the day have been:  Nicole Spencer, Thomas Conoscenti, Connor Waters, Shane Nolan,
Kellan Dwyer…CONGRATS to these students and all the children for their continued efforts.
We celebrated Miss Fetterolf's upcoming Nuptials - thanks to every one for making this a special time.

April 30, 2014

Good-Bye to April and the showers!  We are looking forward to May and its flowers.  Our players of the Day have been Nicole Spencer, Connor Waters, Kellan Dwyer.  We are learning about how cultures have special ways of doing things.  Our book this week was "How My Parents Learned to Eat".  We thought it would be fun to learn about our different cultures.  So I have put together a Grandparent Interview Sheet.  If you and your child would like to participate that would be great.  If a grandparent is unavailable you could use another relative or yourself.  We would like to present the information on Friday, May 9th in honor of Monther's Day.  Thanks for all your support.

April 15, 2014
Our players of the day for last week are:  Thomas Conoscenti, Shane Nolan, Patrick Welsh.  This week our players of the day are:  Kellan Dwyer, Sarah Barats.   Please enjoy the holiday and your families.

April 1, 2014
Our players of the day:  Kellan Dwyer, Joey Scarpello, Jack Booz, Patrick Welsh; and Kellan was the player of the week in the entire school.  Our class is very happy to see the sun make an appearance and welcomes April 1st.

March 21,2014
We survived the Terra Nova Testing.  Our class moved up a ranking in the school.  We went sixth to fifth place.  Our thanks to all you participate.  Also our Players of the Day:  Patrick Welsh, Shane Nolan, Danny Link,  Joey Scarpello.  We are having fun rewriting fairy tales.  Hope to hear all the great stories next week.  Enjoy the weekend.

March 12, 2014
Our Players of the Day so far are:  Thomas Conoscenti, Shane Nolan, and Mario Verrechia…congratulations to all the students.  We are still in sixth place in the school.  We are preparing for Terra Nova testing for next week.  We will need four sharpened #2 pencils, a good night's sleep, a healthy breakfast each day.  Please send in a healthy snack and a private book for the children to read while we are waiting for the end of the testing.  The schedule will be Friday, 3/14 - practice test; Monday, 3/17 - reading, Tuesday, 3/18 - Language Related tests, Wednesday, 3/19 - math tests, Thursday, 3/20 - Science, Friday, 3/21 Social Studies and Spelling.  Thanks for all you do!

March 3, 2014

NO HOMEWORK DUE TO CONFIRMATION.  God Bless our 6th grade class.

March 3, 2014

So sorry for the absence of blogging.  Hopefully this will be the last blast of winter weather.  For the Month of February we had many players of the day.  They included:  Thomas Conoscenti (multiple times), Nicole Spencer, Tristan Eisler, Shane Nolan (multiple times), Joey Scarpello, Mario Verrecchia
(multiple times) Congratulations to you all.  Today, March 3rd we have Thomas Conoscenti once again player of the day.  We saw The 100th Day Parade by PreK and K.  Also the fifth grade paraded around school showing us the State Floats.  We created Mardi Gras masks on Friday.  We are looking forward to Ash Wednesday the start of our Lenten Season.

February 7, 2014

Hope everyone is surviving this challenging weather.  I was happy to see all my smiling faces!!

This week our players of the day:  Tuesday - Shane Nolan; Friday - Thomas Conoscenti.
Also our classroom is seventh in the whole school.  More impressively - Thomas Conoscenti is the top player of the whole school.  I am proud of all my math magicians for all their efforts!!!
Today we are looking forward to our seventh grade friends presenting the story The Hatchet.
Have a great weekend.

January 28, 2014

Players of the week:  Monday, Sarah Kelly; Tuesday, Connor Waters….Congrats!!

Tomorrow is Grandparent's Bingo day.  Just a reminder the students need to bring in their snack and a bag of pennies for markers.

January 23, 2014

Hopefully everyone is safe and sound!  Battling the snow and frigid weather has been a challenge.

Here a few reminders for Catholic Schools Week:

     : Monday is open house and the second grade will be presenting the plays that they have been working on at 1:30 PM - looking forward to seeing you.

     :Bingo responses are due on January 24th.  The bingo bags will be due on January 27th (the students will be bringing them home today; the students will need a bag of pennies to use as bingo markers.

     :Service Project - reaching out to many organizations that care for children.  The students are requested to donate fifty cents.

Thank you for all your support!!

January 17, 2014
Players of the Day - Wednesday:  Connor Waters; Thursday: Shane Nolan; Friday: Nicole Spencer - Congratulations to all our Players of the Day.  Yesterday the students attended a presentation for anti-bullying.  We have been practicing our players and we have many buddy actors in our room.  Enjoy the long weekend!!

January 14, 2014
Congratulations to the Player of the Day for Monday - Connor Waters; Tuesday - Thomas Conoscenti .
We are still 7th as a team in the school.  Also Thomas Conoscenti is ranked top player in the school - SUPER!!  Our All About Me Student last week is Tristan Eisler - Happy Birthday.

January 8, 2014
Happy New Year!!!  I hope that my second grade family enjoyed a holy, happy, and healthy holiday season.

Your generosity enhanced my holiday cheer.  I thank you all for the many gifts and thoughts.

The children arrived back from holiday in great form.  They were truly eager to share all the marvelous things they did with the family and the fantastic presents under the tree.  Monday and Tuesday the students really stayed on task and were very attentive to the day.  To reward our children for this fabulous attitude we will celebrate with a show and tell on Friday, January 10th.  Please no electronics as they are too expensive to travel or no pets due to allergies.

Thank you again for all your continued support and encouragement.

Players of the day: Monday - Shane Nolan; Tuesday - Thomas Conoscenti; Wednesday - Tristan Eisler!!!