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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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10.23.2023-10.27.2023 Week at a Glance

 

Religion

Students will:

  • Tell the story of Zacchaeus
  • Describe ways that Jesus showed his love for everyone
  • Identify John the Baptist as a holy man who taught people about the coming of the Messiah
  • Define miracle

Math

Students will:

  • Find a pattern to solve word problems
  • Use repeated addition to add equal groups
  • Use arrays with repeated addition
  • Find even and odd numbers in number patterns

Phonics

Students will:

  • Read words with vowel teams ou, oo, ue, and ew
  • Practice trick words again, please, animal, sure, use, and used
  • Practice reading fluently
  • Read words with vowel teams au and aw
  • Divide words into syllables
  • Read and spell compound words
  • Learn trick words against, knew, and know

Reading/Writing

Students will:

  • Determine connections between key terms and topics
  • Draft and rehearse an informational paragraph
  • Combine simple sentences using conjunctions to explain key concepts from Why Do Leaves Change Color?
  • Identify the connections between texts
  • Write and share an informative paragraph about the impact of weather on trees in fall
  • Describe the impact of color in Sky Tree paintings

Social Studies

Students will:

  • Identify and locate geographic features on a physical map
  • Apply knowledge of geographic features
  • Use a political map of the United States to identify the location of various US states

Tuesday 10.17.2023

Homework:
 
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Continue practicing words with suffixes s, es, ing, ed
 
3. Math Lesson 2.2 Homework pages 
 
Additional Reminders:
  • $1 dress down - Wear Pink on Wednesday 10/18→ Bring $1 (or more) to donate for breast cancer research
  • Parent Teacher Conferences are Thursday, 10/19
    • Please be on time - We will try to cover a lot in the 10 minute slot! 🙂
  • No School for students - Thursday, 10/19, or Friday, 10/20

Monday 10.16.2023

Homework:
 
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Continue practicing spelling words that have suffixes s, es, ed, ing
 
3. Math Lesson 2.1 Homework pages
 
Additional Reminders:
  • $1 dress down - Wear Pink on Wednesday 10/18→ Bring $1 (or more) to donate for breast cancer research
  • Parent Teacher Conferences are Thursday, 10/19
    • Please be on time - We will try to cover a lot in the 10 minute slot! 🙂
    • If you have not yet signed up and would like to, please visit the link that Mrs. Hein and Mrs. McMahon sent out last week.
    • I look forward to speaking with you!
  • No School for students - Thursday, 10/19, or Friday, 10/20

10.16.2023-10.18.2023 Week at a Glance

 

Religion

Students will:

  • Explain that the Ten Commandments are a guide to follow Jesus. 
  • Discuss the importance of obeying our parents, as Jesus obeyed his parents.
  • Define the term Ten Commandments.

Math

Students will:

  • Use patterns to skip count
  • Model skip counting to find the total in equal groups

Phonics

Students will:

  • Read and spell the sound of -ed
  • Mark up the suffix -ed
  • Learn trick words sure, use, and used

Reading/Writing

Students will:

  • Use key terms to identify change process in leaves
  • Draft a conclusion
  • Analyze multiple-choice questions to choose the correct definition for survive and usually

Social Studies

Students will:

  • use maps by reading the map features of: title, compass rose, and map key.
  • Identify different kinds of maps and when we would use them
  • map reading skills to answer questions about three different locations

Thursday 10.12.2023

  • Student choice dress down tomorrow!
  • Please see the link sent out to sign up for parent teacher conferences. I hope to speak with all of you about your child's progress so far this year.
  • Library books are due tomorrow, Friday 10/13
 
Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Math - study for tomorrow's test
 
3. Phonics/Spelling - Practice reading and writing words with suffixes -ed, -s, -es, -ing
 
 

Wednesday 10.11.2023

Homework:
 
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Math: 1.13 homework page - 2 step word problems
 
3. Phonics/Spelling: Practice reading and writing words with suffixes -ed, -s, -es, -ing
 
Reminders:
  • Food Pantry Collection is tomorrow, Thursday, 10/12 - 2nd grade should bring crackers
  • Please see the link sent out to sign up for parent teacher conferences. I hope to speak with all of you about your child's progress so far this year.
  • Library Day is Friday - Please send back library books on Friday.
  • Here is a link to our class wish list. If you would like to purchase something for our classroom during these "Prime Days", please take a look. Always appreciated, never expected. :)

Tuesday 10.10.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Math: 1.12 homework page - fact families
 
3. Phonics/Spelling: Practice reading and writing words with suffixes -ed, -s, -es, -ing
 
Reminders:
  • Food Pantry Collection is Thursday, 10/12 - 2nd grade should bring crackers
  • Please see the link sent out to sign up for parent teacher conferences. I hope to speak with all of you about your child's progress so far this year.
  • Library Day is Friday - Please send back library books on Friday.
  • Here is a link to our class wish list. If you would like to purchase something for our classroom during these "Prime Days", please take a look. Always appreciated, never expected. :)

Monday 10.09.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Math - 1.11 homework page - missing addends
 
3. Spelling/Phonics - Practice reading and writing words with suffixes -ed, -s, -es, -ing

10.09.2023-10.13.2023 Week at a Glance

 

Religion

Students will:

  • Explain that the Ten Commandments are a guide to follow Jesus. 
  • Discuss the importance of obeying our parents, as Jesus obeyed his parents.
  • Define the term Ten Commandments.

Math

Students will:

  • use fact family relationships to solve problems
  • solve 2-step word problems
  • Review addition and subtraction strategies
  • Complete addition and subtraction assessment on Friday 10.13

Phonics

Students will:

  • Review the sounds for suffix -ed (/id/, /d/, /t/)
  • Encode and decode words with suffixes -s, -es, -ed, -ing
  • Encode and decode words with suffixes -er, -est
  • Read words with vowel teams: oa, oe, ow

Reading/Writing

Students will:

  • Determine the central message of a story
  • Use linking comments to discuss a story
  • Explain how characters change and support with evidence from a text
  • Identify main topic and details in a nonfiction text

Social Studies

Students will:

  • use maps by reading the map features of: title, compass rose, and map key.
  • Identify different kinds of maps and when we would use them
  • map reading skills to answer questions about three different locations
 
Reminders:

  • Chapter 1 Math Test is Friday 10.13 - the study guide with topics to review went home on Friday.
  • I added more dates for Mystery Readers - click here to sign up. Please only sign up for one date to let everyone have a chance!
  • Our next Food Pantry is Thursday 10.12 - 2nd grade should bring crackers.

Thursday 10.05.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Math 1.10 Homework Page - relate addition and subtraction
Chapter 1 Test is Friday, October 13th - Please check your child's folder tomorrow for an information sheet on what will be covered on the assessment.
 
3.  Phonics/Spelling - Work on building base words and adding suffixes (s, es, ed, ing) - See the Unit 4 packet that went home yesterday for ways to practice
 
We have library tomorrow! Please bring back library books to check out new ones.

Wednesday 10.04.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Math 1.9 Homework Page - use doubles to subtract
 
3. Phonics - Unit 4 packet went home today, but we are spending the rest of the week reviewing suffixes. The packet is to be used for practice over the 10 days of the unit.

Tuesday 10.03.2023

Homework:
1. Read 20 minutes
 
2. Math 1.8 Homework Page - Subtract all or zero
 
3. No phonics homework - Unit 4 homework packet will go home tomorrow
 
Reminders:
We have library on Fridays! Please bring back books on Fridays to get new ones.

Monday 10.02.2023

1. Read 20 minutes

2. Math 1.7 Homework page - We are now working on subtraction strategies. We will work through several different strategies with the goal of finding what strategy or strategies work(s) for each student.

3. Spelling/Phonics - Practice words with closed syllable exceptions (ost, old, olt, ild, ind) 

Tests and Quizzes:

  • Phonics Unit 3 Assessment - Tuesday, 10/3 (note - This was a one-week unit, which is why we have another assessment so soon.)

10.02.2023-10.06.2023 Week at a Glance

 

Religion

Students will:

  • tell about the special meal that Jesus shared with his disciples at the Last Supper
  • identify Ordinary Time as a time to be fed by Jesus, the Bread of Life.
  • explain that Ordinary Time is a time to grow in the knowledge and love of Jesus.
  • define Bread of Life, chasuble, liturgical year, and vestments.

Math

Students will:

  • Count back to find the difference
  • Subtract zero or subtract all to find the difference
  • Use doubles facts to find the difference
  • Use addition facts to subtract.

Phonics

Students will:

  • Read and spell words with oi/oy vowel team
  • Spell words with the -ind, -ild, -old, -ost, and -olt sound
  • Review and practice trick words
  • Review plural suffixes
  • Review the suffix -ed and-ing

Reading/Writing

Students will:

  • Orally retell the story A Color of His Own
  • Form complete sentences with multiple subjects
  • Compare the character’s attempts to solve the problem in the beginning and end of the story
  • Choose evidence that provides support of an explanation of the ways the chameleon changes in A Color of His Own
  • Construct simple sentences with one or more subjects and multiple verbs based on the characters in A Color of His Own
  • Identify story elements and evidence of change in the story
  • Make real-life connections to the word camouflage
  • Retell the events of the story
  • Form complete sentences with multiple subjects
  • Compare the main character’s attempts to solve the problem at the beginning of the story and the end

Social Studies

Students will:

  • Identify the features of rural, suburban, and urban communities
  • Compare and contrast features of different types of communities
  • Determine the relative location and population densities of rural, suburban, and urban communities 
  • Identify advantages and disadvantages of different types of communities

Wednesday 09.27.2023

1. Read 20 minutes (continue building reading stamina)
 
2. Practice words with closed syllable exceptions (ild, ind, old, olt, ost) -
*New packet went home today*
Unit 2 Assessment is Tuesday, 10/3 (This is only a one-week unit.)
 
3. Optional: Check My Progress Book Page
Addition Quiz - Tomorrow, Thursday 9.28 (Note: This will just be single digit addition as a "quick check", not the Chapter Test, and then we will move on to subtraction strategies.)