Math: pgs. 239-40 (evens or odds are fine)

5 Minutes of basic math facts practice

 

Reading: 10-15 minutes

 

*Tomorrow- Jan. 12, Friday bring $1 or more and wear blue to support St. Bede's Catholic School to be out of uniform.

*Library Books for return!

 

Math: pgs. 233 (evens or odds only) 10-15 minutes

 

Religion: practice the Act of Contrition Prayer

 

Fundations: Review for Unit 7 assessment (papers are coming home tonight)

 

Reminders:

For Homework:

 

Math: Please have students do pgs. 227-228. If it takes your child a bit longer to work through Math; have them do the evens or odds only. 15-20 minutes total.

5 minutes of basic math- flashcards, math games, cards, etc.

10-15 minutes of Reading! 

*In 2nd grade students should have no more than 30 minutes of homework each night to review basic skills and work through skills independently.

 

 

This week in 2nd grade:

 

 

Fundations:  Students will decode words with open syllables, multisyllabic words, write multisyllabic words with open syllables, and focus on trick words: city, family, every, carry, night, and something. Unit 7 Assessment will be Thursday, 1/11.

 

Wit and Wisdom: (Reading and Writing) Students will continue to choose the main topic with the most important points to support it from an excerpt. Students will focus on content vocabulary and using a glossary to define them. We continue to learn about our early American history.

 

Math: Students will begin to use regrouping methods for double digit subtraction. We will review fact families as these are opposite operations and can be used to check our math answers. (For example: 3+2=5, 5-3=2) Base ten blocks can be used to enforce visual learning.

 

Religion: We will continue to work through our Reconciliation book. We will focus on the act of forgiveness. We will read the story of the tax collector. We have our will to choose between good and bad. Students will learn the difference between and venial and mortal sin.

 

Social Studies: We will work on Unit 2 Lesson 5-How do people use our environment? We will learnt he difference between things that are made from nature and things that are made by people/factories. We will learn how people live in different environments.  We will learn how our environments can be used for food, clothing, and shelter.

 

Reminders:

 

 

 

Homework:

Homework tonight:

Next week we will:

 

Fundations- We will work on suffixes, review all our our "Word of the Day" words, and continue learning y as a vowel (like in baby and cry). We will use dry erase boards to have a contest to build words from the letters in Merry Christmas!

 

Wit and Wisdom (Language Arts/Writing): We will write a sample paragraph with pulling key points from a topic and putting them together with a Topic Sentence, 2-3 details/points and a conclusion statement. We continue to use "juicy" words (adjectives) to make our writing more interesting to the reader.

We will read plenty of Christmas stories and discuss them/do activities. We will also participate in Christmas Around the World with the other 2nd grade and 1st graders.

 

Math: We will continue to explore Geometry with 2D shapes-composing and decomposing them. EX: show how many ways can you build a hexagon with other shapes.

 

Religion: We are working through the first 2 chapters of our Reconciliation books. We are learning about God's story-creation, We are part of His family, the importance of our friend/relationship with Him and reviewing the Sign of the Cross. We will focus on what we can 'give' to the Lord this Advent-acts of kindness, building op others and "padding' the manger for Jesus by secretly complimenting others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tonight is the Christmas Program:

For tonight students should:

Phonics (Fundations): We have been learning about open syllable words and long vowel sounds, and we will continue that learning of study next week. We will work on reading and spelling multisyllabic words ending in the letter y. Students will be able to explain when the letter y spells the long /i/ sound and when it spells the long /e/ sound. Finally, we will explore how prefixes can be added to base words and how those change the meaning of the base words. Trick words for the week include city, every, and family.

 

Math: We will continue to review names, sides, and angles of 2D shapes, along with the names, faces, edges, and vertices of 3D shapes. The students will take a quiz on Tuesday. Later in the week, we will go into more depth about shapes as we learn how to compose shapes from smaller shapes (e.g., make a trapezoid from triangles) and decompose bigger shapes into smaller shapes.

 

Reading and Writing (Wit and Wisdom): We will continue our deep dive into exploration and expansion of the American West. Students have been learning about buffalo and the Plains Indians. They will continue to discuss what life was like for different tribes of Plains Indians in the American West. They will identify main ideas and details from sections of nonfiction texts, and they will be able to use irregular plural nouns correctly. 

 

Religion: We will take a break from our Finding God textbooks and move into our special purple books to prepare for First Reconciliation. The first session in the book is titled “God Calls Us Friends.” We will read about the gift of grace we receive from God, what sins are (versus mistakes or accidents), and how we can work to better our relationship with God and others. We will also start praying the Act of Contrition daily. Students will bring home a copy of this prayer too. Please help them to practice this prayer so that they continue to feel more comfortable and confident with it.

 

 

Tests and Quizzes:

• Math - Chapter 12 Quiz = Tuesday, 12/12

Additional Reminders:

• Please try to take your children to Mass over the weekend as we start the second week of Advent.
• Santa Shop = Monday, 12/11 → Thank you to the parents who are helping out! 
• Christmas Show Dress Rehearsal = Wednesday, 12/13, at 12:30pm in the church
• Christmas Show Program = Thursday, 12/14, at 6:30pm in the church → Please see the email from Mr. Showstead about what time to arrive, what time doors open, what your children should wear, etc. Thank you!
• Food Pantry Collection = Thursday, December 14th → 2nd grade should bring cereal. Please be generous as we approach the Christmas holidays, and please keep those who visit the Food Pantry in your prayers. (Thank you!)
• Please check your child's Kiddos hot lunch orders to make sure your child has a lunch each day.
• Please send your child with a coat and proper outerwear for outdoor recess in the colder temperatures.
• If you send your child to school in boots, please send additional shoes for your child to wear during the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• 5-10 minutes of addition Math facts
• Read for 10 minutes
• Practice the Act of Contrition each night (1 min.)

 

For this evening, please have your student complete Math pg.781-2, Halves, thirds and fourths. 

Please also, practice 5 minutes of additions facts.

Have your student read for 10 minutes every night.

Total homework time should be 25-30 minutes/night!

Tonight the children are bringing home a copy of the Act of Contrition prayer. Please have your child practice this once or twice through. 

Please also have your student do 2-5 minutes of basic math facts (flashcards are great).