Dear Second Grade Families,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! We’re off and running with a new year and many new things to do. Stay tuned for all the news.
Thank you to all parents and students for my super class gift and Christmas wishes. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. The gingerbread houses were a great success. Thank you especially to room moms for all their organizing, collecting, etc., and to all who participated by helping with the creations. It was great to hear “This was fun.”
FLAT PEOPLE UPDATE:  We are continuing to receive weekly letters, postcards, and photographs. Please continue to encourage your flat person host to still participate in this program throughout January. (Parents, you may need to make a phone call). All mail needs to be sent to school. We will be sending a letter at the beginning of February requesting the return of our visiting friends. We are still enjoying the great experience. This week all students will need to bring in a picture-postcard from their own city to send to their host. (Students should know something about the place).  If you live in Ventura, a Ventura postcard; if you live in Oxnard, an Oxnard postcard, etc. Since we have received postcards from all over, it will be fun to send something from our area. We will be writing these in class. Please have them in by this Friday. Thank you.

****** STUDENT OF THE WEEK…Sol******

And the rest of the week will look like this…
RELIGION: Giving the gift of love to others; Learning about the rest of God’s laws.
LANGUAGE ARTS: Reading for comprehension and fluency; “Big Bushy Mustache”, vocabulary development; more long vowel word review; words with suffix ‘ly’; spelling words with “ long i” sounds; dictionary work; creative writing; ABC order…
MATH: Adding and subtracting facts to 20. Practice, practice, practice; Problem solving strategies; LIFE SKILLS…telling time on an analog clock and counting money. You can help your child by daily practice of these skil
Have a good week,
Second Grade Teachers.