Dear Second Grade Families,
Woohoo! We finally started getting some mail from our host families. Our highlight last week was reading the mail. I will send the mail home with your child so you may get a chance to read the mail at home. The mail MUST be returned the following day. As I mentioned at Back To School, I will be saving all the mail until we receive your child’s Flat Person in 2013. We can’t wait to receive mail this week. Our make up picture day is on Wednesday, October 24th. We will attend the Living Rosary at 2:00 at our church on Oct. 24th. Please join us if you are available.
This is our academic overview for this week:
Homework: Common Core Homework , Fluency Reading Log Practice Saint presentation.
A little reminder, your child MUST do all homework in pencil including the reading log. They should be writing in the title/author on their own on the reading log.
Saints: Next week, we have our Saints Parade on Friday, November 2nd. Your child should be practicing their saint presentation at home. We will begin practicing in the classroom this week. I will send a copy to those parents who requested a copy. We will have a rehearsal next week.
Math: Reviewing Place Value and learning to regroup tens as ones Vocabulary: regroup, digit, place value, tens and ones
Language Arts:
Reading: We will be reading Around the Pond: Who’s Been Here? We are learning about Realistic Fiction and continue to learn comprehension strategies such as story mapping and cause and effect. We have also been using a venn diagram to compare stories.
Writing/Grammar: We will be writing a letter to the families that have our Flat Person/Writer’s Workshop; small moments. We are reviewing punctuation, capitalization, command sentence vs telling sentence.
Spelling/Phonics: Unit 9: We will be looking at words with digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh). We will be reviewing words ending with double consonants. Spelling Test is on Thursday. Please have your child work on spellingcity.com to practice their spelling words through games. Other ideas that you may do at home to practice spelling words:
1) Write them on index cards and sort them
2) Have your child trace a word on you back and you guess the word/you write the word on their back and your child will guess the word
3) Spellingcity.com
4) Have your child write or tell you a story using some spelling words
Religion: We started a new unit this week: “Jesus Calls us to Give Ourselves in Love.”
Social Studies: Landforms
Science: We finished our plant life cycle with a test on Tuesday. We began the Animal Life Cycle in the science lab on Tuesday.
If you have any questions or concerns please send me an email.
God Bless,
Mrs. Vazquez
