Parent’s day was a great success!!! I enjoyed watching all of you interact with your child. This week we continue celebrating Catholics School’s Week with faculty/staff appreciation day on Tuesday. On Wednesday, your child will have lunch provided by Ms. Benner and may wear free dress. We look forward to an exciting week.
A Look at our Week:
The highlight for our second graders continues to be handwriting. We have worked on i, l and h. We will learn to connect the l and h. I will introduce u this week.
HOMEWORK: Reading Log, Fluency & IXL (B.3 & B.5)
RELIGION: Practice the Act of Contrition. We will be focusing on how Jesus Leads Us to His Peace. We continue discussing sin and temptation.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Reading: We will begin a new story Jamaica Louise James, a realistic fiction selection. Our focus is to evaluate and reading for fluency and comprehension. We will also continue our read aloud, Boxcar Children (Book 1).
Spelling/: UNIT 17 homophones; We will take our spelling test this Friday instead of Thursday.
ABC Order; Dictionary Work; Word families.
Writing: Narrative writing/Some students have started publishing their work. I can’t wait to see their work.
MATH: We will be working on temperature, Fahrenheit and Celsius. We will continue reviewing metal math, skip counting and word problems.
SCIENCE: We will be focusing on gravity, simple machines and review vocabulary & concepts. This week we will focus on making a pulley.
SOCIAL STUDIES: We continue discussing freedom and equality.
Important Dates to Remember:
1/28 : Faculty & Staff Appreciation Day!
1/29: Wednesday: Student Appreciation Day! Lunch will be provided by Mrs. Benner for all students. No Homework!
1/30 Parish Appreciation Day!
1/31 Friday: Full Day!
Blessings,
Mrs. Vazquez