2nd Grade

Second Grade Newsletter Week of January 29 – February 2, 2024

 

READING: A Weed is a Flower

VOCABULARY: laboratory, greenhouse, agriculture, college, only, question, neighbor

 

SPELLING (comparative endings):  sooner, soonest, hotter, hottest, busier, busiest, happier, happiest, smaller, smallest, fatter, fattest, angrier, angriest, straighter, straightest

 

ENGLISH: Pronouns and Adjectives

 

MATH:  math facts, measure and draw line segments to the nearest half inch, add 2-digit numbers with sum greater than 100, ordering numbers, venn diagrams

 

RELIGION Reconciliation Prep

SCIENCE:   Geology

 

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, reading

 

This will be Catholic Schools Week.

Second Grade Newsletter Week of January 29 – February 2, 20242024-01-22T09:42:24-05:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of September 22-26, 2023

READING: Rosa and Blanca

VOCABULARY: tortillas, chiles, luckiest, many, alone, half, buy

 

SPELLING (long i sound):  find, child, sky, bright, wild, fly, right, flight, spider,        cry, blind, myself, frighten, arrival, identify

 

ENGLISH: Chapter 4 – Pronouns and Adjectives

 

MATH: math facts, word problems, measuring, time to nearest 5 minutes.

 

RELIGION:  Reconciliation

 

SCIENCE:  Geology

 

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, reading

 

2B will be doing the Mass on Friday, January 26.  Please have your child in the classroom by 7:45.  You are all welcome to attend the Mass that will begin at 8:10.

 

MAP Testing Schedule for Second Grade:

           Monday – 2A
          Tuesday – 2C

           Wednesday – 2B
Please make sure that your child eats breakfast and arrives at school by 7:45 a.m.
as we start testing at the beginning of the day.  Also, send water and a snack.

Second Grade Newsletter Week of September 22-26, 20232024-01-17T12:58:29-05:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of January 15-19, 2024

READING:   Fiction/Nonfiction, various reading activities.

 

VOCABULARY:  No vocabulary for this week.

 

SPELLING (commonly used words):  they, because, said, were, are,
there, their, they’re, could, always, thought, listen, was, different,

enough, saw

 

ENGLISH:  Verbs

 

MATH:  math facts, various math activities

 

SCIENCE:   Geology

RELIGION Reconciliation

 

Friday Tests:  spelling and math (no reading tests)

Monday – No School ( in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Tuesday – No School – Do the E-Learning Day packet that is in your child’s
                          Friday folder.  This MUST be turned in on
                          Wednesday, January 17th for a grade.

Friday – 2C will be doing the Mass.  Please have your child in the classroom
          By 7:45 a.m.   You are welcome to come to the Mass.  It starts
          at 8:10 a.m..

Friday – Report cards will be sent home in the Friday folders.

Second Grade Newsletter Week of January 15-19, 20242024-01-08T13:34:05-05:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of January 8-12, 2024

 

READING:   Anansi Goes Fishing

 

VOCABULARY: lazy, justice, weave, delicious, today, whatever, finally,
                tomorrow

 

SPELLING (compound words): basketball, someone, weekend, something, birthday, riverbank, bathtub, backyard, driveway, bedtime, raindrop, mailbox,
Grandparent, rattlesnake, earthquake                         

 

ENGLISH:  Chapter 3

 

MATH:  Math facts, measuring and drawing line segments, story problems,

congruent shapes, venn diagrams, graphing

 

RELIGION Reconciliation

 

SCIENCE:  Geology

 

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading

  •  Friday will be the last day to record grades for the second 9-weeks.   Report cards will be sent home the following Friday, January 19th.

 

Second Grade Newsletter Week of January 8-12, 20242023-12-11T19:30:24-05:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of December 4-8, 2023

READING:   Dear Juno

 

VOCABULARY: persimmons, photograph, envelope, answer, parents, faraway,
                smudged

 

SPELLING (long o sounds): goat, hold, show, most, bowl, float, toast, ago,
                              open, told, toad, slow, almost, throat, hollow

 

MATH:  Math facts, venn diagrams, identifying a.m. and p.m., identifying noon and midnight, identifying dozen and half dozen, adding three two-digit numbers, reading a thermometer to the nearest 2 degrees Fahrenheit

 

RELIGION:  Advent

 

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Twelve Days of Christmas Unit

 

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading

Progress reports will be in the Friday folders – Dec. 8th.

 

2A will be doing the Mass on Friday, December 8th for the Holy Day of Obligation – The Immaculate Conception.  Please have your child in the classroom by 7:45 a.m. that day.  You are welcome to join us for Mass at 8:10 a.m.

Second Grade Newsletter Week of December 4-8, 20232023-11-30T09:55:20-05:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of November 27-December 1, 2023

READING:   Pearl and Wagner Two Good Friends

 

VOCABULARY: electricity, robot, trash, wad, guess, village, pretty

 

SPELLING (long e words):  read, feel, easy, deep, seat, party, wheel, leave, windy, sleep, teeth, team, wreath, season, eagle

 

ENGLISH: Nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentence structure

 

MATH:  drawing line segments, locating points on a line, polygons and naming angles of a polygon, associative property of addition, naming a fractional part of a set, math facts

 

RELIGION:  Advent

 

SOCIAL STUDIES:  Twelve Days of Christmas unit

 

Friday Tests:  math, spelling, and reading

 

**  Thank you for all of the Clay County food donations!

Second Grade Newsletter Week of November 27-December 1, 20232023-11-15T10:43:01-05:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of Nov. 21-22, 2023

READING, SPELLING, AND ENGLISH:  Various Thanksgiving activities

 

MATH:  Math facts, shapes, addition/subtraction

 

RELIGION Prayers/Reflections

SCIENCE: Physics

 

Second grade will NOT have any tests next week.

 

Second grade will  NOT have homework club next week (Nov. 20-21).

 

**** Tuesday, November 21 – 2C will be having the Thanksgiving Mass.

Please have your child in the classroom by 7:45 that morning.  You are all welcome to join us for Mass in the church at 8:10 a.m. 

 

** VERY IMPORTANT:    Wednesday, November 22 is an E-Learning Day – no school in the building.  A packet of work will be sent home with your child on Tuesday.  All of the work in the packet MUST be completed and turned in the Monday after Thanksgiving (November 27th).  This packet of work will be graded.

 

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

Second Grade Newsletter Week of Nov. 21-22, 20232023-11-14T15:08:04-05:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of November 13-17, 2023

READING:  Gooseberry Park

 

VOCABULARY: arthritis, heroic, tend, query

 

SPELLING: squirrel, collection, treasure, animal, friends, bat, dog, children, risk, nest, busy, babies

 

ENGLISH: Verbs

 

MATH:  adding 2-digit numbers with regrouping, symmetry, word problems, dimes/nickels, pennies, math facts

 

RELIGION:  God’s Love

 

SCIENCE: Physics

 

Friday Tests:  math, spelling (no reading test)

Second Grade Newsletter Week of November 13-17, 20232023-10-30T19:36:49-04:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of November 6-10, 2023

READING:   We will be reading Gooseberry Park by Cynthia Rylant for the next few weeks.  The children will complete activities in class.  They will not have a written test on the book.

 

VOCABULARY: collection, conversation, remorse, rescue

 

SPELLING: acorn, crab, hobby, home, idea, park, remorse, rescue, sign
            watch, weasel, wonder

 

ENGLISH: Chapter 2 – Nouns

 

MATH:  math facts, word problems, measuring, counting combinations of dimes, nickels, and pennies, fractions, lines of symmetry, deductive reasoning, adding two 2-digit numbers, and points on a number line

 

RELIGION The Church Year

 

SCIENCE: Physics

 

 THURSDAY Tests:  math, spelling (no reading test)

 

 No School on Friday – Veterans Day

Second Grade Newsletter Week of November 6-10, 20232023-10-30T15:02:48-04:00

Second Grade Newsletter Week of October 30 – November 3, 2023

READING:   Various reading reviews and enrichment 

VOCABULARY:  No vocabulary for this week.

SPELLING: No spelling words for this week.  We will review past skills.

ENGLISH:  Verbs

 

MATH:  math facts, various math activities/review/and enrichment

 

SCIENCE:   Finishing Physics unit

 

RELIGION:  Saints

 

Friday Tests:  THERE WILL BE NO TESTS.

There will be NO HOMEWORK CLUB next week for second grade.

 

Wednesday – 2B will be doing the Mass.  Please have your child in the classroom by 7:45 a.m.   You are welcome to come to the Mass.  It starts
at 8:10 a.m..  We will be having Friday specials on this day.

 

Thursday – No school.  Parent/Teacher conferences

Friday We will be having Wednesday specials on this day.

Second Grade Newsletter Week of October 30 – November 3, 20232023-10-24T06:28:16-04:00
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