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Welcome to 2nd Grade with Mrs. Applegate!
 
 
My name is Samantha Applegate and I am so excited to be joining the SJCS family! I grew up in central Indiana and graduated with my degree in Elementary Education from Ball State University in 2017. My husband and I relocated to the Chicagoland area in 2019 where I spent the first three years teaching Kindergarten. This will be my fifth year teaching and my second year teaching at St. Joseph. 
 
When I'm not teaching, you can find me spending time at the lake and watching college football. I also enjoy concerts, reading, and spending time with my friends and family. Some of my favorites include Diet Coke, Starbucks, and trips to Target. I look forward to an amazing 2022-2023 school year!
 

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04.11.2023-04.14.2023 Week at a Glance

 

Religion

Students will:

  • Describe how the early Christians gathered to remember Jesus
  • Explain that we are united with one another when we pray the Lord’s Prayer
  • Describe how we receive Holy Communion
  • Write a prayer to pray after receiving Holy Communion

Math

Students will:

  • skip count and count on to determine the value of a group of coins.
  • solve word problems with money.
  • use coins to make one dollar
  • Review money concepts for their quiz next week

Language Arts

Students will:

  • Use notes to write informational text
  • Begin drafting a research report
  • Write a conclusion for a research report
  • Revise a research report

Reading

Students will:

  • Encode and complete sentences with compound words
  • Practice observing punctuation
  • Practice reading with appropriate rhythm 
  • Read and discuss grade-level texts
  • Decode and encode long e words
  • Practice differentiating between characters in dialogue 

Science

Students will:

  • Observe and inquire about the question “How can huge fields of flowers suddenly grow in one of the hottest, driest places on Earth”?
  • Make observations and create a concept model to explain the essential question

Tuesday 04.04.2023

Homework:
1. Read for 20 minutes
2. Math 8.1 Homework Page
3. Cursive o writing practice
4. Study for tomorrow's Social Studies test
5. Start practicing for next week's spelling test (new list and backpack pages went home today)

4.3.2023-4.6.2023 Week at a Glance

 

Religion

Students will:

  • Learn and discuss the events of Holy Week

Math

Students will:

  • identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters
  • count pennies, nickels, and dimes
  • count quarters

Language Arts

Students will:

  • Use parts of a book to locate information
  • Take notes while researching
  • Interpret information from photographs
  • Use an index

Reading

Students will:

  • Answer questions about literary text
  • Decode and encode compound words
  • Use compound words correctly in context
  • Read with appropriate phrasing by using punctuation

Social Studies

Students will:

  • Review for Unit 4 test on map skills
  • Unit 4 test - Wednesday 4/5

Thursday 03.23.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
2. Practice for tomorrow's spelling test
3. Cursive a and d practice
 
Our next Social Studies test will be the Wednesday after spring break. The study guide went home today!

Tuesday 03.21.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
2. Optional: Chapter 7 Math Review
3. Optional: cursive p practice
4. Practice for Thursday's math test and Friday's spelling test

Monday 03.20.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
2. Math 7.9 Homework Page - subtract zeros
3. Optional: cursive j practice
4. Practice for Thursday's math test and Friday's spelling test

03.20.2023-03.24.2023 Week at a Glance

Announcements & Reminders:
  • Reading Progress Test - Monday 3/20
  • Chapter 7 Math Test - Thursday 3/23 (Study guide went home in home folders on Friday)
  • Spelling Test - Friday 3/24
  • Thank you to everyone who donated pencils! Here is our class wish list if you would like to help us out with a few more supplies to get us through the rest of the year. :)
  • Many students have talked about different sporting events and extracurricular activities they are involved in. Please send me a few dates and times because I would love to come and support your kiddos! Thank you.
  • Please review the Together Magazine Chapter 6 at home next week. This will complement what we are learning in Religion class.
  • Monday, 3/20 = All School Mass - 8:30 am in the church → Students should wear red polos and their dress uniform pants or jumpers.
  • Tuesday, 3/21 - No Mass
  • Thursday, 3/24 - Food Pantry → 2nd Grade should bring Ramen
  • Thursday, 3/24 - Stations of the Cross 12:30pm in the church
 

Religion

Students will:

  • Learn about the story of the multiplication of the leaves and fishes.
  • Identify Jesus’ promises to give himself as spiritual food
  • Describe the presentation and preparation of the Gifts
  • Define blessing, sacrifice
  • Explain that the Bread and Wine represent all that we offer to God

Math

Students will:

  • Subtract three-digit numbers.
  • Rewrite horizontal three-digit subtraction problems as vertical three-digit subtraction problems.
  • Write number sentences to solve subtraction word problems.

Language Arts

Students will:

  • Draft the ending of an imaginative narrative
  • Revise an imaginative narrative
  • Publish a story as a book

Reading

Students will:

  • Learn and decode words with open-syllable patterns
  • Practice decoding long-vowel words with open-syllable patterns
  • Encode irregular plurals to complete sentences
  • Complete sentences and definitions with spelling words
  • Read and discuss grade level texts
  • Discuss drawing conclusions

Social Studies

Students will:

  • Continue learning about different landforms

03.20.2023-03.24.2023

Religion

Students will:

  • remember and reflect on the story of the Last Supper.
  • reflect on the Eucharist (the Body and Blood of Christ) as our spiritual food and think about how it nurtures us.

Math

Students will:

  • subtract across zeros
  • apply 3-digit subtraction skills to solve problems.
  • Review 3-digit subtraction
  • Demonstrate their knowledge of 3-digit subtraction on their test on Thursday, 3/23.

Language Arts

Students will:

  • publish/share Unit 11 writing project (imagined narrative)
  • Write an opinion statement
  • Write questions of inquiry
  • Discuss African habitats
  • Identify and use informational text features
  • Choose a topic for African animal report

Reading

Students will:

  • Encode and decode “tricky w” words → words that start with w or wh
  • Write and read words with prefixes mis- and dis-
  • Use punctuation and typographical clues to guide fluency
  • Read and discuss nonfiction texts

Social Studies

Students will:

  • compare urban, rural, and suburban communities.

Thursday 03.16.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
2. Math 7.8 Homework - subtraction word problems
3. Optional: cursive s practice
4. Study for tomorrow's spelling test
 
Tomorrow, Friday 3/17 is a dress down day for all students. Students must wear green for St. Patrick's Day!

Tuesday 03.14.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
2. 3-Digit Subtraction worksheet
3. Optional: cursive k practice
4. Practice for Friday's spelling test
 
We are on our last box of pencils, if you have some to donate or would like to purchase off our classroom wish list we would really appreciate it. :)
 
Click here for our classroom wish list.

Monday 03.13.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
2. Math 7.6 Homework - subtracting 3-digit numbers
3. Optional: cursive f practice
4. Practice for Friday's Spelling Test
 
Announcements & Reminders:
  • Many students have talked about different sporting events and extracurricular activities they are involved in. Please send me a few dates and times because I would love to come and support your kiddos! Thank you. :)
  • We are running low on pencils, if you have any extra or would like to donate to our classroom we would really appreciate it!

03.13.2023-03.17.2023 Week at a Glance

 

Religion

Students will:

  • Learn about the story of the multiplication of the leaves and fishes.
  • Identify Jesus’ promises to give himself as spiritual food
  • Describe the presentation and preparation of the Gifts
  • Define blessing, sacrifice
  • Explain that the Bread and Wine represent all that we offer to God

Math

Students will:

  • Subtract three-digit numbers.
  • Rewrite horizontal three-digit subtraction problems as vertical three-digit subtraction problems.
  • Write number sentences to solve subtraction word problems.

Language Arts

Students will:

  • Draft the ending of an imaginative narrative
  • Revise an imaginative narrative
  • Publish a story as a book

Reading

Students will:

  • Learn and decode words with open-syllable patterns
  • Practice decoding long-vowel words with open-syllable patterns
  • Encode irregular plurals to complete sentences
  • Complete sentences and definitions with spelling words
  • Read and discuss grade level texts
  • Discuss drawing conclusions

Social Studies

Students will:

  • Continue learning about different landforms
 

New Spelling List: (words with open syllables)

  • favor
  • lazy
  • later
  • equal
  • secret
  • final
  • title
  • tiny
  • broken
  • total
  • human
  • student

Thursday 03.09.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
2. Math 7.5 Homework - regroup hundreds
3. Optional: cursive practice page
4. Study for tomorrow's spelling test
5. Bring back library books
 

Important Announcement:

Due to the unpredictable snow storm headed toward Chicagoland, we are being proactive in the event school is canceled.  IF school is canceled tomorrow, Friday, March 10, we will have an e-learning day.  IF tomorrow is declared an e-learning day, I will send out an email with more information by 7:30am. Your child will also have a Google Meet link posted in Seesaw (for an 8:00am meeting).

Today your student came home with various materials needed in the event that tomorrow is an e-learning day, including his/her iPad.

  • If the storm does not impact our area, please send your child back to school with all the materials. 
Other Announcements:
  • We are running low on tissues and pencils, if you have any extra at home or would like to donate some to our classroom we would really appreciate it! 
  • Many students have talked about different sporting events and extracurricular activities they are involved in. Please send me a few dates and times because I would love to come and support your kiddos! Thank you. :)

Wednesday 3.08.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
2. Math 7.4 Homework - regrouping 10s
3. Practice for Friday's spelling test
 
Many students have talked about different sporting events and extracurricular activities they are involved in. Please send me a few dates and times because I would love to come and support your kiddos! Thank you. :)

03.06.2023-03.10.2023 Week at a Glance

 

Religion

Students will::

  • Discuss how we listen to God’s word during the Liturgy.
  • Discuss how we listen to God’s word as it grows in our hearts

Math

Students will:

  • Start 3-digit subtraction
  • subtract hundreds
  • mentally subtract 10 or 100
  • regroup tens to subtract 3-digit numbers
  • regroup hundreds to subtract 3-digit numbers

Language Arts

Students will:

  • Plan an imagined story
  • Generate a problem and a solution for an imagined story
  • Draft an imagined story

Reading

Students will:

  • Add suffixes -ed, -ing
  • Distinguish among characters in dialogue
  • Form past tense irregular verbs
  • Read grade level text with fluency and expression
  • Discuss nonfiction texts

Social Studies

Students will:

  • identify the four cardinal directions (and intermediate directions) on a compass rose
  • identify different kinds of land and water