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