For the week of October 17, 2016

Welcome to our Second Grade Newsletter!

● Prayer Partner Mass- Next Friday, October 21st, second grade learners will be sitting with their Prayer Partner during Mass. We encourage you to join us for the celebration, in the parent section of the church. Thank you.

● Newsletter- We would like to take this opportunity to make sure all families have subscribed to each 2nd grade teacher’s class page, along with the 2nd grade newsletter. The newsletter can be found on the school website.

● Jeans for Jesus - Thank you to all the families who donated towards

Jeans for Jesus! You can still bring in $5 and wear jeans the remaining Wednesdays in October.

● ¡Hola Padres de 2nd

grade - What a busy beginning to the school year! 2nd

graders have been working in their interactive notebooks to log and study new

vocabulary. We’ve been working with “Glory Be” prayer in español as well as

conversational vocabulary. For practice, have daily dialogues involving “¿Cómo

estás?” (How are you?) Encourage answers of: “Estoy bien” (I am fine), “Estoy

más o menos” (I am okay/so-so) or “Estoy mal” (I am feeling bad/sick/sad).

Scholastic’s “Club Leo” has great Spanish and bilingual titles. I order them

myself and the kids love them: https://orders.scholastic.com/P9GTZ

Gracias, Sra Straub

Upcoming Events

Jeans for JesusOct. 19

Shake Out (Earthquake Drill)Oct, 20

Prayer Partner MassOct. 21

Halloween ParadeOct. 31

NewsletterSECOND GRADE

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Reading Workshop- Unit 1This week learners were introduced to partner reading. They practiced introducing their books to each other and then took turns reading and discussing what they read. We reviewed reading “snap words” that helps to read in “bigger scoops” and reading with good fluency.Readers also practiced identifying “Hooks” in books, as Master writers will do to inspire hooks for their own writing.

Writing Workshop- Unit 1Narrative writingWe have been focussing on “hooks” that use dialogue, facts, or the setting to start their small moment narratives.Learners were also introduced to “show not tell” writing. This is another way in which Master Writers make their writing more interesting. For example-Instead of: “I was surprised!” they could write: “I started jumping up and down and waving my arms!” This kind of writing allows the reader to visualize what is happening more clearly. Next week we will try add more of this type of writing to our narratives.Finally, we are continuing to review nouns- Common and Proper and to add “snap” words to our class word wall. These words are expected to be spelled correctly when we are writing.

Math - Unit 2

This week we completed five center

rotations. Each rotation focused on

a different skill including two and

three digit addition, math facts, and

place value. Learners were also

introduced to regrouping one’s. This

is often a difficult skill for learners to

grasp, so please take a few minutes

this weekend to have your child

practice this skill with you.

Next week we will continue

regrouping ones and introduce

regrouping tens.

Learners will complete Lessons 23,

24, 25 and 26. There will be a Simple

Solutions quiz on Friday.

Science:

This week we continued our

exploration of matter. Learners

participated in a Mass Lab. I am

looking forward to conducting our

first experiment this week called

“Matter is Poppin’.” As a class we

will observe evidence of gas in

balloons as well as what reaction

occurs when you pour Pop Rocks

into soda.

In addition, we will continue building

our vocabulary in our Interactive

Notebooks. Last week we focused

on solid, liquid and gas. This week

our vocabulary words are matter,

mass and property.

Religion-In lieu of Mass on Friday, we met with our Prayer Partners! We talked about St. Edward, since Thursday was his feast day, and we made crowns of gold. The learners also did a getting to know you activity. Super fun!

This next week will be looking at Chapter 3: The Word of God. God tells his people about himself through the Bible. The Bible is God’s inspired Word written by humans. We will have a Chapter 3 test on Friday.

God’s Shining Light:2A- Samantha Sparks2B- Ryan Rittichier2C- Brett Whitmore

Raquel Canterbury, Lauren Harkins, Molly Merz, Libby Rue will be taking up the gifts during the Offetory.

Social Studies-The learners took their Lesson 1 & 2 quiz on Friday. Quizzes will come home in the Friday folder and the grade will be posted to Sycamore. We will continue to work through Unit 3 next week. We will be discussing Our National Government.

from the week...Snapshots

Learning about Mass Spending time with our Prayer Partners

Who knew school was so much fun?!

2nd graders with St. Edward!