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Week at a glance: 1/15-1/19/24

Fundations: (phonics) We will begin Unit 8 this week with “r-controlled” vowels. For example: /ar/ in car and /or/ in horn. Our trick words to practice are: different, world and answer.


Reading and Writing: (Wit and Wisdom) Students will write an informational paragraph on the impact plants or animals have on the Plains Indians. We will continue using our Plains Indians book to use text vocabulary to notice words inside of other words. For example: reserve in reservation. We will continue to work in small reading groups to use our decodable readers from Module 2, focusing on decoding skills when students come across tough/unknown words using context clues and prior knowledge.


Math: We will continue learning strategies to subtract a 1 digit number from a 2 digit number with regrouping. For example: 23-9 (take a group of ten from the tens place and create 13 to subtract 9 from) Then solving 13-9 and dropping the remaining 1 ten from the tens place to equal a difference of 14. Students will use base ten blocks and work mats to clarify concepts with their style of learning. We will emphasize stacking a horizontal subtraction sentence to vertical for visual clarity as well. Example: 23-9=____ to 23

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Religion: We will continue working through our Reconciliation book to prepare for Reconciliation. Our God is a forgiving and all loving God. We will focus this week on Forgiveness. We need to forgive ourselves and others.


Social Studies: We will continue learning How do people use their environment? for food, shelter, and clothing. This ties in nicely with our Wit and Wisdom learning for that cross-curricular learning emphasis. We continue to use flashcards with text vocabulary: such as natural resources, conserve, pollute, and environment.


*No Science units until wrapped up with Social Studies!


Reminders: 

  • Unit 8 Phonics test will be on the week of 1/22/24. The packet will go home Tuesday!
  • No School Monday, Jan 15, 2024, to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • Library Books are due Friday, 1/19
  • Dress down, bring $1 or more and wear blue Friday, 1/19 to help support fundraising efforts to help keep St. Bede’s Catholic School doors to remain open.
  • 1st Reconciliation February, 4, 2024
  • THANK YOU for your generosity in our Food Pantry collection last Thursday!

1/11/24-Thursday

Homework:
 
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!

1/10/24

HOMEWORK: 
 
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:
  • Reconciliation Meeting tonight!
  • Food Pantry collection tomorrow- pancake mix
  • St. Bede dress (wear blue) down day fundraiser Friday! (bring a dollar or more)
  • Watch for Scholastic Book Order forms and information!

1/9/24

I cannot believe it is 2024! Where does the time go??
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.
 
Reminders:
  • Boots, hats, coats, gloves/mittens. When we do go outside, I want your kiddos to be cozy and warm.
  • Thursday, January 11th is our Food Pantry collection again. Please send in pancake mix-as generous as you can be.
  • Friday is a dress down day/fundraiser for St. Bede's School. Bring a dollar (or more). wear BLUE and have a dress down day. Thank you for supporting our community catholic school. 
 

Week at a Glance: 1/08-1/12

This week in 2nd grade:
 
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas break and are off to a super 2024!!
 
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:
  • Please send your child in warm coats, a hat and warm gloves or mittens!
  • No School Monday, January 15-Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
 
 
 

12/20/23

Homework:
  • Tell mom or dad what 3D shape you made to day. Tell them 2 facts about it.
  • Read a Christmas Story with a family member
  • 5 minutes of flash cards- addition and subtraction
Reminders:
  • THANK YOU TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED TO MY CHRISTMAS GIFT! I AM VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILD!
  • Wash your hands!! Lots of germs floating around; we want you to have a Merry Christmas!
  • Bring warm coats, hats, gloves!
  • Class party tomorrow; eat a good breakfast!
  • No School Friday!

12-18-23

Homework tonight:
  • Please read for 10-15 minutes
  • 5 minutes of basic Math facts (+ and -)
  • Finish Independent Practice pg. 46 (worksheet on shapes)
Reminders: 
  • Please keep your child home if he/she isn't feeling well or running a fever.
  • Warm clothes-coats, a hat, gloves, are essential for your child to be comfortable outside in cold weather. Please check with them that they have these items for recess.

Week at a Glance: 12/18-12/22

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.
 
Reminders:
 
  • Monday, Art in a Box-thank you to our volunteers!
  • Tuesday-no Mass as we have our all school Mass at 8:30 Friday!
  • Thursday is our class party-thank you again to our volunteers!
  • No EDP Wednesday - Friday!
  • Friday-11:00!
 
 

12/14/23

 
 
Tonight is the Christmas Program:
  • Please have the children here (classrooms) at 6:00. We will process to the church by 6:15.
  • Please take their coats with you so you have them after the program.
  • Students will dismiss from the church. PLEASE be sure I see you with your child before taking them.
There is no homework tonight! Enjoy the show!

12-12-23

  • Students should do 5 minutes each of addition and subtraction flashcards.
  • Students should read for 10 minutes!
  • Please remember to be as generous as possible Thursday, with donations of cereal for our Food Pantry collection!

12-11-23

For tonight students should:
  • review their Math study guide and practice test. Their assessment is tomorrow!
  • 10 minutes of reading each night! (Christmas stories are great and partner reading makes it less stressful)
  • Practice the Act of Contrition prayer

Week at a glance 12/11/23

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.
 
*We will skip Science/Social Studies this week due to all the special events and schedule changes due to the Christmas show and special activities.

 

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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

12-07-23

Students should use the Chapter 12 Review to prepare for their assessment on Tuesday, 12-12-23. These will be in their folder today.
  • 5-10 minutes of addition Math facts
  • Read for 10 minutes
  • Practice the Act of Contrition each night (1 min.)

12-06-23

  • Students should do Math pg. 787-789 and return tomorrow.
  • Students should also be bringing home a Religion worksheet with a response to Reconciliation-How I feel before and after Reconciliation. *This can just be done and kept at home.  This will get the conversations started about the sacrament of Reconciliation they are to receive in February.
  • 5 Minutes of Math addition facts review
 

12-05-23

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!
  • Thursday is the Food Pantry collection! Second grade is collecting cereal. Please bring what you can!