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READING:   One Good Turn Deserves Another

VOCABULARY:  groaned, creature, armadillo, snorted, grateful

SPELLING (long a):  main, wait, say, away, play, raise, brain, paint, stay,
                        today, tray, tail, everybody, sorry

ENGLISH: Chapter 2 – Nouns

MATH:  Identifying similarities and differences among coins, counting nickels, writing the date using digits, bar graphs, venn diagrams, and ordering 2-digit numbers

RELIGION:  Rosary

SCIENCE:  Physics

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading

**  Monday – Dismiss at 11:30 (Teacher Inservice)
**   Friday – Report cards go home

READING:   The Bremen Town Musicians

VOCABULARY: mill, excitement, musician, robbers, monsters, pleasant

SPELLING (plurals):  note, notes, lunch, lunches, story, stories, tune, tunes,
                        switch, switches, baby, babies, crumbs, supplies, holidays

ENGLISH:  Start Chapter 2 – Nouns

MATH:  story problems, math facts, compare fractional parts of a whole, measure to the nearest inch, trade pennies for dimes, add 10 to a two-digit number

RELIGION:  Rosary

SCIENCE:  Physical properties of matter

Thursday – $5 Clay County Dress Down Day

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading

Friday is the last day of the first nine week grading period.
Report cards will be sent home next Fri

READING:   Scarcity

VOCABULARY: hurricanes, resources, scarcity, scarce, trade-off

SPELLING (r-controlled vowels):  her, person, nurse, dirt, turn, birth, serve,
                                    curb, curl, skirt, purse, turtle, whole, enough

ENGLISH:  subjects and verbs

MATH:  story problems, thermometer, math facts, measuring (inches),
Lines (horizontal, vertical, oblique), add 10 to a number, pairs, dimes/pennies, tally marks, number families, graphs

RELIGION:  Rosary

SCIENCE:  Physical Properties of Matter

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading
    

Wednesday, Oct. 11 –  Gym Jam – wear your PE uniform.  The  
              school will be having pizza for lunch.  If your child doesn’t want
              pizza, then he/she will need to bring a packed lunch.

Friday, Oct. 13 – 2A will be having the Mass.  Please have your child in the classroom by 7:45 a.m. that morning.  You are welcome to join us at the church at 8:10 a.m.                    

READING:   Scarcity

VOCABULARY:  hurricanes, resources, scarcity, scarce, trade-off

SPELLING (r-controlled vowels):  her, person, nurse, dirt, turn, birth, serve,
                                    curb, curl, skirt, purse, turtle, whole, enough

ENGLISH:  subjects and verbs

MATH:  story problems, thermometer, math facts, measuring (inches),
Lines (horizontal, vertical, oblique), add 10 to a number, pairs, dimes/pennies, tally marks, number families, graphs

RELIGION:  Rosary

SCIENCE:  Physical Properties of Matter

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading
    

Wednesday, Oct. 11 –  Gym Jam – wear your PE uniform.  The  
              school will be having pizza for lunch.  If your child doesn’t want
              pizza, then he/she will need to bring a packed lunch.

Friday, Oct. 13 – 2A will be having the Mass.  Please have your child in the classroom by 7:45 a.m. that morning.  You are welcome to join us at the church at 8:10 a.m.         

READING:   Abraham Lincoln

VOCABULARY: noticed, honest, lawyer, fault

SPELLING (contractions): didn’t, it’s, aren’t, he’s, I’m, who’s, can’t, isn’t, she’s, haven’t, I’ll, hadn’t, worst, great

ENGLISH:  Types of Sentences continues
          

MATH:  math facts, graphing, counting dimes and pennies, time (half past),
fact families, story problems, fractions (½, ¼, ⅛), tally marks, temperature,
line segments

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Community and State Governments

RELIGION:  Rosary

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading

Another friendly reminder to put your child’s name inside his/her uniform fleece jackets, sweaters, and gym uniforms.

READING:   Tara and Tiree:  Fearless Friends

VOCABULARY:  brave, collar, slipped, break, family, listen

SPELLING (r-controlled vowels): part, hard, born, horse, before, more, smart, farm, porch, corn, chore, score, cardinal, therefore, morning

ENGLISH:  Asking and Exclaiming Sentences (interrogative and exclamatory)

MATH:  Time (half past the  hour), story problems, graphs, reading number words, temperature, symmetry, patterns, money (dimes, pennies), even/odd numbers, math facts

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Our Government

RELIGION:  We celebrate God’s love.

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading

Progress reports will be sent home on Friday, Sept. 29th.

READING:   The Strongest One

VOCABULARY:  dangerous, gnaws, narrator, relatives

SPELLING (digraphs):  bunch, that, wish, patch, when, what, math, them, shape, whale, itch, chase, whiskers, switch, shrimp

ENGLISH:  Kinds of Sentences

MATH:  even/odd numbers, math facts, dividing shapes in half, time, patterns, number words, shapes, word problems, fractions

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Our Government

RELIGION:  Jesus Christ Gives us the Church

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading
The Saxon math tests on Fridays will reflect the homework lessons.  

•  Please make sure your child brings a water bottle and a snack each day.  Also, please make sure you write your child’s name on the tag inside each uniform sweater or fleece.  Thank you!

READING:   A Walk in the Desert

VOCABULARY:   cactus, climate, coyote, desert, harsh

SPELLING (suffixes): talked, talking, dropped, dropping, excited, exciting, lifted, lifting, hugged, hugging, smiled, smiling, dragging, amazed, bouncing

ENGLISH:  Sentences

MATH:  Math facts, Some, some went away story problems, equal sizes, reading number words, days of the week, ordinal numbers (first, second,etc.)
shapes, graphs, fractions, logical reasoning

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Our Government

RELIGION:  Jesus Christ Gives Us the Church

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading
The Saxon math tests on Fridays will reflect the homework lessons. 

2nd Grade Picture Day:  Thursday, September 14th.

READING:   Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night

VOCABULARY:   drooled, lanterns, shivered, snuggled

SPELLING (blends):   stop, strap, nest, hand, brave, ask, clip, stream, mask, twin, breeze, state, browse, straight, skeleton

ENGLISH:  Types of Sentences

MATH: Some, some went away story problems, time (one hour ago and one hour from now), even and odd numbers, ordinal position (first,second,third, etc.), adding 2, creating and reading a repeating pattern

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Our Government

RELIGION:  Jesus is the Son of God

All tests will be on Friday.
Monday, September 4 – No school (Labor Day)

Second Grade Homework Club will start next week.

READING:   Exploring Space With an Astronaut

VOCABULARY:   astronaut, experiment, gravity, shuttle, telescope*-

SPELLING (long vowels):   page, nose, space, size, fine, huge, mice, late,
                              race, blaze, rice, vote, move, live

ENGLISH:  Sentences

MATH:  Identifying the attributes of pattern blocks, ordinal position,
some, some more story problems, comparing and ordering objects by size, commutative property of addition, covering a design using pattern blocks, and math facts

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Community

RELIGION:  Jesus is the Son of God

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading

**  Thank you if you have already paid the $25 class supply fee for second grade.  If you haven’t paid it yet, please send it next week and put it in an envelope in your child’s folder. These fees help to pay for supplies used in the classroom this year.  If sending a check, please make the check payable to SHGS.  Put “2nd Grade Supplies” in the memo section.  Thank you!