• First Communion is Saturday, May 1st - Please see previous emails from Mrs. Phoenix with information about time to arrive, what to wear, and other details.
  • Please enter through the main doors of the church (Maple Ave.) on Saturday.
• Second will attend Mass in person on Thursday. You are welcome to join us in person or via Livestream!
• Spirit Week Thursday: Character Day- Dress up as your favorite character from a book or movie!
•  

• First Communion is Saturday, May 1st - Please see previous emails from Mrs. Phoenix with information about time to arrive, what to wear, and other details.
  • Please enter through the main doors of the church (Maple Ave.) on Saturday.

• It is Spirit Week!--tomorrow is Wacky Wednesday- Dress in a mismatched, silly outfit. 

• First Communion = Saturday, May 1st - Please see previous emails from Mrs. Phoenix with information about time to arrive, what to wear, and other details.
  • Please enter through the main doors of the church on Saturday.
• Second grade will continue to attend Mass in person on Thursday.
  • Families are invited to attend in person or via the LiveStream. 

Week at a Glance

Week of April 26-April 30, 2021 

Math: This week we will move into a chapter on shapes and fractions. (We are jumping around in our math books a little bit). Students will identify the sides and vertices of 2-dimensional shapes and sort them based on their attributes. Additionally students will explore the world of 3-dimensional shapes and identify the edges, faces, and vertices of shapes like spheres, cylinders, pyramids, and rectangular prisms.

Science: This week we will move to focus on a unit on Light and Sound. We will use our Mystery Science program to explore how we will discover how people make silly sounds in cartoons. Using different materials, we will try to mimic these sounds as we gain more information on the topic. 

Language Arts: This week our grammar skill focuses on identifying verbs (action words) and using the appropriate tense (past, present, future). Our Mentor Sentence is from the book, The Relatives Came to review using “vivid verbs” (strong verbs that are more descriptive). During Writing, we will continue practicing cursive letters. We will finish and publish our opinion paragraphs.

Reading: We will use our story of the week, Rosa and Blanca, along with supplemental texts and activities to focus on the strategy of sequencing events in a story. We will use additional texts and videos to help us review this concept. This week’s spelling list has words with a long i sound. 

Social Studies: In our Chapter on Economics, we will turn our focus to discussing producers and consumers. We will also learn how farmers use their land to produce food. Important vocabulary terms to know include: producers, harvest, and natural.

Religion: This week we are in the final week of preparation for First Communion, so our focus will be on practicing Mass responses and preparing our hearts and minds for this extremely special moment in your children’s faith lives. We will also attend Mass on Thursday.

Assessments:

• Spelling Test →  Friday (new list will go home on Monday)

Additional Reminders:

• Please try to attend mass with your child over the weekend. *This is very valuable as we are one week out from First Communion.*

• Next week, we will continue to attend Mass in person. Second grade will attend on Thursdays. *Please help by reviewing the Mass expected behaviors and responses with your child at home. We will continue reviewing these in class as well.* (They have impressed us so far with their behavior at mass) 

• First Communion Mass: 10:00AM in the Church on Saturday, May 1, 2021

• Please be seated in the church by 9:50AM.

• Each family will have a limited number of attendees due to the social distancing requirement in the church. Each family may have the total of 6 attendees during the Communion Mass, including the second grade student (the student and five guests).  

• Each family will be required to pre-register their attendees by April 23.

• Be sure to bring your Communion banner to hang on the end of your pew.

• The First Communion Mass will be live streamed using this link:  https://youtu.be/FT9XCM-U86c. Please feel free to share this link with your family and friends. 

• We had originally scheduled a practice for the evening of April 26; this practice has been cancelled. Students will practice during school instead.

• Spirit Week → week of April 26th

• Monday is Career Day

• Tuesday is Favorite Sports Team

• Wednesday is Wacky Wednesday

• Thursday is  Character Day

• Friday is Spirit Day

• Math quiz is on Thursday
• Spelling test is on Friday
• Reading test is on Friday

Week at a Glance

Week of April 19-23, 2021

Math: This week we will continue lessons in our GoMath! books on measuring to the nearest inch. We will learn how to gather data and make line plots to organize the data. We will review how to use our rulers precisely, and we will spend some time reviewing for a quiz on Thursday. 

Science: We will discuss and explore what materials might be invented in the future. Throughout our exploration, students will come up with ideas for inventions that use an exciting futuristic material (glass that can bounce and stretch like rubber) We can’t wait to see what the students come up with!

Language Arts: Our grammar lessons continue to focus on past, present, and future tenses of verbs. Our Mentor Sentence from Diary of a Worm will extend this learning and also allow us to identify and use compound words in our sentences. During Writing Workshop, we will finish our lowercase cursive alphabet and also write some Opinion writing paragraphs. 

Reading: We will continue practicing how to compare and contrast information within and between texts. Students will practice their high frequency words, amazing words, and spelling words daily. In our guided reading groups, students will focus on comparing and contrasting within texts that are at their level. 

Social Studies: As we begin Chapter 4 from our Social Studies books we will be focusing on Economics.Students know the difference between wants and needs and practice sorting them. They will be able to define the following vocabulary: producers, consumers, barter, scarce, choice, and purchase. We will use our textbooks along with supplemental videos and materials to support our comprehension of these concepts. 

Religion: We will start our last chapter in our God’s Gift: Eucharist books. This chapter is called “Journeying”, and we will discuss our journey of faith that we are on with others and discuss our call to share this faith by loving and serving others, just like the priest tells us at the end of Mass. We will also attend Mass as a second grade class on Thursday..

Assessments:

• Math Ch. 8 Quiz →  Thursday (measurement)
• Spelling Test →  Friday (list to go home Monday)

Reminders:

• Please try to attend mass with your child over the weekend. *This is important and valuable as we get closer to First Communion.*
• Next week, we will continue to attend Mass in person. Second grade will attend on Thursdays. Please help by reviewing the Mass responses and expected behaviors with your child at home. We will continue reviewing these in class as well. You are welcome to join us in person (be sure to register ahead of time on the website) or via the LiveStream