December18, 2017

Hello Friends, 

We made it (well almost!).    

There will be no homework this week!  Please take this time to enjoy with your families!

Both homerooms will have gym tomorrow!  Please send children in their gym uniforms tomorrow December 19th.  Room 205 (Miss Bontempo's room) will not have gym on Wednesday this week.  

Tis the Season for colds: After the holiday,  2nd grade will be accepting donations of; tissues, baby wipes, and hand sanitizer for our homerooms.  

Important Dates: 

Wednesday December 20th:  Red and Green Day 

Thursday December 21st:  2:00 pm prayer service in Church

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

As always, Thank you for all that you do! 

We hope that you all have a magical last week before Christmas!!! 

December 11, 2017

Hopefully you enjoyed a productive weekend getting ready for the Holiday.

The students are working on their song for the concert.  They are looking forward to performing for you.  I know that some of you also have a child in the band and will be attending that on Tuesday night.  Due to the busy time of the

year we have cancel homework until after the holiday.  We will work harder during the school day.

Enjoy the holiday preparation with your family!

 

Monday, November 27, 2017 9:06 AM

Hello Friends!!

Welcome back!!  We hope you had a lovely and blessed Thanksgiving break.

Looking ahead this week:

Important dates:

Giving Tuesday- Tuesday November 28th

First Friday Mass- December 1st

Included in last week's office news was the attachment for family placards to be used during car line. The new car line procedures will begin today.  You must have your yellow placard for students to be released. Please see email from office regarding this new procedure.  

As we prepared for the joyous season of Advent, we are quickly getting our room ready.  In our classrooms we have a classroom Christmas tree.  We thought it would be nice for each student to bring in 1 ornament to put on the tree. The ornament can be anything they would like (soccer, a holiday Christmas ball, a name ornament, a picture, etc).  These ornaments will be returned the day we leave for Christmas break.  We are asking each student to bring their ornament in this Friday December 1st.  

November 22, 2017


Dear Second Grade Family,
Happy Thanksgiving!! Hopefully your holiday will be filled with love and peace.  Also please know that I count you among my blessings.  I appreciate all that you are and do.
Enjoy your family,
Judy

Hello Friends!!!

Tomorrow our friends in Grades 3-8 will be going to see the movie Wonder.  Grades 1 and 2 will be staying behind, but we thought it would be nice to also incorporate a movie focusing on diversity.  Tomorrow we will be watching the movie Zootopia, and celebrating our differences and focusing on acceptance. 

Also, I am sending home scholastic flyers.  There are many great opportunities for Christmas gifts.  If you would like to place an order please use:

clubs.scholastic.com.  Our class code is RRMMM.  I will be placing the order December 1st to ensure that you receive them before the holiday.  

If you do place an order and it is a gift, please let me know.

Happy almost Friday, friends! 

Enjoy your evening! 

Hello Friends!!

Happy Rainy Monday!!! 

Important dates:

November 13th: Operation Christmas Child Boxes are due

November 15th: Thanksgiving Feather due 

November 17th: Thanksgiving Dinner Project due (See below for directions)

Included in last week's office news was the attachment for family placards to be used during car line.  Please see email from office regarding this new procedure and request for family placards.  

We are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving.  This week instead of having math homework in our Practice Books students will be completing a Thanksgiving Dinner project.  All information and worksheets they need will be passed out today (Monday November 13th).  Please have the students complete this fun exercise and return to school on Friday November 17th. 

This week we are learning:

ELA: Beginning our story: Ugly Vegetables.  We will be working with double consonants and CK (our spelling words), proper nouns, homophones and building our fluency strategies

MATH: Continuing chapter 3, adding and subtracting digits (break a-parts, fact families,  and regrouping/borrowing)

RELIGION: Jesus is our Savior and also what it means to give thanks 

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE: Discussing the First Thanksgiving, Pilgrims and Native Americans.  We will also continue our discussion on germs and how to fight colds,

Saint for the month of November: Saint Kateri of Tekawitha 

Thank you all for all you do!  Stay warm and enjoy your week ahead!  = ) 

The Second Grade Team 

November 7, 2017

This week we are learning:

ELA: Beginning our story: Animals Build homes.  We will be working with final consonant blends (our spelling words), context clues with informational texts, and building our fluency strategies

MATH: Continuing chapter 3, adding and subtracting digits (break a-parts, fact families,  and regrouping/borrowing)

RELIGION: Saint John the Baptist 

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE: Discussing germs and how to fight colds, also different types of animals and their homes/habitats  

Saint for the month of November: Saint Kateri of Tekawitha 

Thank you all for all you do!  Enjoy your week ahead!  = ) 

The Second Grade Team 

Monday, October 30, 2017 8:10 AM

Hello Friends!!!

Happy Halloween!!  This week is sure to be a fun one! 

Tomorrow is our saint parade!  All students should bring their costumes to school, please make sure all parts are labeled!  We will be parading around at 9am out back.  We are looking forward to seeing you all there!

Wednesday November 1st will be a full of school!  We will be going to mass at 10 am.  Please wear your winter uniform on Wednesday (Miss Bontempo's class will still have gym class, but they will wear their regular winter uniform.  

This week we are learning:

ELA: Finishing the story, Teacher's Pet.  We will continue practicing our fluency, identifying consonants blends, and working with plural and singular nouns.  We will also continue narrative writing.  

MATH: We will begin chapter 3, adding and subtracting digits.  We will be preparing for regrouping (borrowing).  We will also keep practicing our addition and subtraction facts.  

RELIGION: All Saint's Day and our Saints' Parade

SOCIAL STUDIES/SCIENCE: Continuing discussion of communities, and being a good citizen.  Also discuss germs and how to fight colds.  

Thank you all for a great week!  Have a very happy and safe Halloween!!!  We can't wait to hear all about your trick-or-treating adventures! 

The Second Grade Team 

 

Monday, October 23, 2017 7:58 AM

Good Morning all!!!

Happy Monday!

SPECIAL NOTES: 

Conferences are to be held this week.  Please see sign-up from office for your date and time.  We are looking forward to meeting with you all!

Thursday October 26th: Early Dismissal 11:55 

Friday October 27th: No school due to conferences

Please see email from school office with more important news.

Looking ahead: Our saint parade will be on Tuesday October 31st.  

Students should wear their uniforms and bring with them to school their costumes.  Please make sure everything is labeled (we don't want anything to get lost).  Students can begin to bring in costumes in a bag if they are ready.  Remember, costumes can be simple (bathrobes, pillowcases, old shirts etc). 

Also to our parents and friends who will be joining us, our parade is scheduled to begin around 9:00am.  We will be parading outside in the back school yard with the pre-k and k friends (weather permitting).  

This Week we are learning:

ELA- Beginning our story of Teacher's Pet, building our fluency

Phonics- Blends (gr, sp, cl, sw, dr, st, sk, gl)

Writing- Types of sentences and kinds of nouns 

Math- Continuing with numbers in the 3 digits.  Modeling and comparing 100s. 

Religion- Saints and Chapter 5: Jesus is the Son of God 

Social Studies- Our Community, diversity  

Science- Cause and Effect

Saint of the Month: Saint Laura of Montoya (Patron Saint of those who suffer racial discrimination)

Thank you for all that you do!  We are looking forward to a fun week ahead. 

Enjoy your day!! 

The Second Grade Team 

Good Morning all!!!

Happy Monday!

Looking ahead for this week:

SPECIAL NOTES: 

We will be having a performance by the Windy City Players on Thursday. 10/19.  Due to the performance lunch has been moved to 11:45.  If you are a lunchroom on Thursdays, please make note of the time change.  Thank you!

The sign up has opened for our conferences being held next week.  Please see the link sent home from the office regarding times available.  

Tuesday October 17th: November Lunch payment is due

Friday October 20th: Saint Projects are due 

Please see email from school office with more important news.

This Week we are learning:

ELA- Beginning our story of Diary of a Spider, building our fluency

Phonics- Long O and Long U words, reviewing vowels and cVcE rule, Hard and Soft G 

Writing- Types of sentences and kinds of nouns 

Math- Continuing with numbers in the 3 digits.  Modeling and comparing 100s. 

Religion- Praising God through psalms 

Social Studies- Our Community 

Science- Cause and Effect, Spider STEM stations 

Saint of the Month: Saint Laura of Montoya (Patron Saint of those who suffer racial discrimination)

Thank you for all that you do!  We are looking forward to a fun week ahead. 

Enjoy your day!! 

The Second Grade Team 

 

Monday, October 09, 2017 9:12 AM

Good Morning all!!!

We hope you enjoyed the beautiful weather this past weekend! 

Looking ahead for this week:

Dates to remember: 

Tuesday October 10th: All Fall Fundraisers are due

Wednesday October 11th: First Bank Day and PICTURE DAY (please remember to be in full winter uniform including sweaters and to bring your picture money to school) 

On Tuesday evening our Parish will be hosting the closing of 40 hours.  All students in the Nativity Parish are expected to attend.  We will meet at 6:30 downstairs in the Church Hall.  

Please see email from school office with more important news.

This Week we are learning:

ELA- Finishing our story Dogs and beginning our next lesson on Diary of a Spider

Phonics- Long A and Long I words (spelling test Wednesday), reviewing vowels and cVcE rule

Writing- Types of sentences and adding adjectives (describing words)

Math- Continuing with numbers in the 3 digits.  Modeling and comparing 100s. 

Religion- God the Father (Test Tomorrow on Chapter 3)

Social Studies- Our Community and Christopher Columbus 

Science- Cause and Effect, continuing our STEM project on inventing 

Saint of the Month: Saint Laura of Montoya (Patron Saint of those who suffer racial discrimination)

Thank you for all that you do!  We are looking forward to a fun week ahead. 

Enjoy your day!! 

The Second Grade Team 

September 18, 2017

Good Afternoon,

Hopefully everyone enjoyed the weekend with your families.  We have begun our week with the following academic tasks:

Religion - we have been reviewing Chapter 1 for our assessment tomorrow

Math - we are continuing our skills working with place-value

Reading - we are being our new story, The Family - increasing our vocabulary knowledge and reading skills focusing on the beginning, middle and the end.

I know the homework sheet which was in your Back To School folder did not have the math page on it.  The page will always depend on how well the students

understand the concept.  So for tonight the page is P11, I completed half this page with the students.  

Thanks for all you support.

September 6, 2017

Our new second graders are amazing.  They have brought such excitement into room 204 and I thank you so very much for sharing them with me.

Our first day was perfect.  Smiles and stories shared by all of the students.  They were eager to show off their reading skills and it was impressive.  They loved answering math problems and were very proud to do it.  Our Religion offered an opportunity to embrace kindness and respect which is our theme for the year.  Hopefully they all arrived home with smiles on their faces.

Today was another productive and happy!

Respectfully,
Judy

August 2, 2017

After spending time in the classroom I am looking forward to greeting the new second grade children.
Just interacting with them last year I know that they will be arriving with smiles on their face and curiosity in their hearts.
Enjoy the remaining summer days!

See you soon!!
Judy

March 14, 2017

Hope everyone survived the storm.  We will be taking  the practice test for the Terra Nova Testing on Thursday or Friday.  The children will not have homework next week.  We discussed that a good night's sleep and a nutrition rich breakfast would be beneficial.  Please send your child to school with at least four sharpened #2 pencils and erasers.  Because the testing is administered in the morning it is important that the children arrive on time.  The children may bring in a personal book to read and a small stuffed animal to be used as they finish.  The afternoons will be filled with fun educational activities.  We have a Narrative writing piece scheduled to entice the students to use their best writing skills and observation.  They will be writing a story and  presenting the piece.  

Thank you for all your continued support.

February 17,  2017

Good Morning,
Hopefully the children have shared some of their exciting news this week.  We are reading
"Ah, Music" by Aliki.  It discussed the components needed to create music.  So we have been working on an original piece to be shared with our first grade friends.  Today the fifth graders marched in a States Parade.  Happily showing off their projects.   Charlotte's Web is one of my favorite chapter books and the second grade has begun the process of reading it.  They seem to be enjoying the idea of reading a chapter book.
Math has presented two step problems for us to solve.  A challenge to be sure and the children have been willing to work tirelessly to master the art of problem solving.
In Religion the class is learning about the Sacraments.  We have discovered that the Sacraments nourish our souls.

FYI:  the students will be competing against the teachers in a basketball....come and join in the fun.  You can cheer your favorite player on to winning.  It will be held on Saturday, February 25th at the Community Center Gym.

January 18, 2017

With the New Year in full swing, the children are having a lot of fun creating their math games.
They are becoming learners embracing science, technology, engineering, math.  The excitement that they are sharing is so evident.  They are proud of the products and are anxious to share.  We will host a game try out with their peers.  Congratulations are well deserved with the creativity displayed.

We are beginning a research paper about Polar Bears.  Again they seem to be very excited about learning more about the bear and its habitat.

Math skills are growing as we approach subtraction using break apart and soon we will be regrouping.

We are all looking forward to seeing you at Catholic School Open House - Sunday, January 29th after Masses and Monday, January 30th, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM.

Thanks for all  your support and help.