Dear Second Grade Parents,
Hope the long weekend was an enjoyable one. This week will be a short week with lots to do.
Thank you to the room moms & parent volunteers for our fabulous Valentine’s celebration. The children enjoyed every minute. Thank you for all the Valentine treats and good wishes.
SAVE THE DATE: First Reconciliation for your second grader will be on Wednesday, March 19th at 1:00 P.M. Parents (only), hope you can join us in the church for this sacramental celebration. Parents are invited (and encouraged) to go to confession as well. There will be a celebration following the church service. Godparents or sponsors for this sacrament and First Holy Communion are not required.
Take A LOOK at our Week:
FLAT PERSON PROJECT: Last Thursday, I sent home an envelope with all the correspondence that has been collected throughout the last few months. Just a reminder that as much mail as possible needs to be neatly displayed on the board. Then any leftovers can be mounted in a thin binder. Thank you for your guidance with this. This completed project can come to school on Feb. 25th. School Fair is Wednesday, Feb. 26th from 6:30-7:45 pm. You will need to purchase a presentation board and cut it in half. If you need to have an idea of what size, please stop by the classroom to see a sample.
Please contact your child’s flat person if he/she has not returned them yet. The letters were sent mid January so we can have all the flat students back by Feb. 7th.
Homework: No Fluency or Reading Log this week. This will allow time to start your flat person project. The children will only have 2o minutes of IXL on any addition and/or subtraction section and a spelling test on Friday.
A copy of The Act of Contrition was sent a few weeks ago to memorize. I will be checking periodically to see if the prayer has been memorized. We continue to practice in the classroom.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Reading: We will begin our new story “Ants”. Strategy Focus: questioning. Question strategy means asking an interesting question about important information you have read. Our comprehension skill focus is text organization. We will identify details for the main idea.
Writing: We will write about how we can share our gifts of faith with our school community.
Cursive writing: l, u, i, t, h We have started connecting letters to make words such as ill, hit, hut, hill etc. I will introduce K this week.
Spelling/Phonics: We will have a spelling test on Friday. Unit 20; spelling pattern: soft c and g and hard c and g (ex: goat, gym, city, cot) We will work with base words and endings -s, -es, -ies (nouns).
Grammar: Plural Possessive Nouns, Capitalization & Punctuation
RELIGION: We will review chapter 11; Story of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Leper; The Princess Who Learned to Love; Quiz on Friday
MATH: We will be wrapping up Unit 4 in math. We will be taking our math assessment on Monday or Tuesday. This week our goal is to finish 4.8-4.9. We are focusing finding the sum of two multidigit numbers by using Ballpark estimation and introducing the partial sums algorithm as paper and pencil method. Please go onto everydaymath.com if you need any samples or explanation of lesson taught this week.
SCIENCE: We will take our Chapter 6 science on Friday
SOCIAL STUDIES: Continue reading any Flat Mail; Statue of Liberty article
Events this Week:
Wednesday: FREE DRESS with a $1.00 (or more) donation.
Friday: Full Day: Dismissal 2:45 p.m.
If you have any questions, please send me an email at secondgrade@sacredheartschoolventura.org
Blessings,
Mrs. Vazquez
