Dear Second Grade Families,

Thank you for taking a little time of your day to meet with me during conference week.  It was great talking about the progress your child has made throughout the 1^st trimester.   If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email.

We continue practicing very hard for the CHRISTMAS PROGRAM, which will be next week on December 18^th at 6:30 p.m. A letter went home from Mrs. Lyle describing suggested clothing.

We will be writing our letters and card to our Flat Person hosts and cards for our 7th grade buddies.

Here’s a look at our academic week and what we hope to accomplish:

FREE DRESS ON WEDNESDAY $1.00 or more…The donations will help support the Hurricane Sandy Catholic Education Fund.

Homework:  Remember, we started a new reading log. This week we will continue working on writing a complete sentence for our reading log and focus on neatness along with the fluency reading.

RELIGION: 3^rd and 4^th week of Advent:  Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dec. 12^th) ; loving others and getting our hearts ready for Christmas.
We will have our religion quiz this week.

LANGUAGE ARTS: Reading for comprehension and fluency; special Christmas stories and vocabulary, rhyming and Dictionary work (guide words and thesaurus); creative writing; and language arts of the season.

Spelling:  Unit 15;  we will focus on the words with long o such as old, own, soap and swallow

MATH: Subtraction and addition facts to 20; We will continue adding two digit number without regrouping and begin adding two digit number with regrouping. Subtraction of two digit numbers without regrouping will be introduced.

Social Studies:  This week will be looking at the world map and identifying the 7 continents.  We will focus on the North American countries.

Science:  We will continue reading & learning about Motion and Force.  This week we will focus on the vocabulary words; friction, pull, push and force.

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******STUDENT OF THE WEEK…Diego******

God Bless,

Mrs. Vazquez