Homework

This week's (April 30 - May 4th) homework is as follows:

Math:
Monday - Lesson 125-1 *Please practice x3 and x4 facts with your child!
Tuesday - Lesson 126
Wednesday - Lesson 127
Thursday - Lesson 128

Grammar:
Monday - Pages 182-183
Wednesday - Pages 186-188

Reading: 15+ minutes and nightly 3 sentence summary due by Friday.. if you'd like to get a jump start on this over the weekend, please see the attachment from the email I've sent.

Spelling: 1 Spelling activity (4 due on Friday); test on Friday

Spelling Words: (-aw/-au/-ou)
crawl, laws, fault, sauces, straws, launch, because, hawk, draw, pause, outlaw, launched, caught, thawing, laundry

Religion: First Communion banners due by Wednesday, May 2nd. *Growing in love booklet with parent signature ("Russell Cares") due on Thursday

Correction Packets due by Friday, May 4th.

Also: please work bit by bit on Social Studies project so that it doesn't pile up at the end. Research should be conducted now. Please don't write the project for your child... I'm expecting 2nd grade projects in 2nd grade wording ;0)

Have a great weekend!!

Homework

This week's homework is as follows:

Reading:
15+ minutes each night and 3+ sentence summary/predictions (complete sentences!). Please make sure name is clearly printed on the summary sheet. We had almost half forget to do this last week. Log due on Friday

Spelling:
1 Star spelling activity each night plus cursive practice sheet due by Friday.
Words: (ow/ou sound) clown, brown, crown, cloud, house, sound, scowling, crowded, growling, around, bounced, shouting, howling, pouches, underground

Math:
Monday - Lesson 121 B
Tuesday - Lesson 122 B
Wednesday - Lesson 123 B
Thursday - Lesson 124B

Testing this week on facts -3 and -4

Grammar:
Tuesday - Pages 178-179

Vocabulary:
Monday - pages 88-89
Wednesday - pages 92-93

Please don't forget that this weekend is our mandatory First Communion retreat in O'Malley Hall at 8:45 am. Please anticipate staying until 11:30. We have a morning full of spiritual formation. Please come with an open heart and mind :)

Thank you to our drivers/chaperons who came with us to the San Gabriel Playhouse: Mrs. Benson, Mrs. Blea, Mrs. Cloer, Mrs. Froio, Mrs. Gezalyan, Mrs. Hawkins, Mrs. Kunz, Mr. McKiernan, Mrs. Miner, Ms. Nelson, Mrs. Torres, and Ms. Koulajian and a big congratulations to a job well done by Lainey, Cassie, and Charlie AND Mrs. Hardy! Wow! What a wonderful show! :D

Homework

As we are now in the third trimester, students will no longer take home a weekly homework sheet in order to prepare ourselves for third grade. I will post the homework on the blog each week so that you can keep up to date with it...

Spelling Words:
compare, sharing, chair, pairs, hairy, fair, careful, dare, rare, stare, prepare, flair, snare, daring, staring

Math:
Monday - Lesson 117B
Tuesday - Lesson 118 B
Wednesday - Lesson 119 B
Thursday - Lesson 120-1 B
All week we will be testing fact speed... remember each fact is worth 10 points (totaling nearly 150 points) by the end of the trimester. Students are responsible for coming in to re-test during recess.

Reading:
Read 15 minutes or more each night and complete the Reading summary sheet (3+sentences on what was read or a prediction of what is to come)

Spelling:
1 spelling activity each night this week totaling 4 due by Friday in spelling notebooks

Other:
-SS Project coming home at the end of the week. Please refer to the timeline on the sheet.
-Bring a paper bag (shopping size) by the end of the week to take home open house work
-Field trip to San Gabriel Playhouse to see "School House Rock" on Friday
-Students may need supplies to be replenished.

This week we are continuing to study frog/toad life cycles, preparing for our First Holy Communion and growing as reading scholars through Daily 5. Please remember that Saturday, April 28th is our First Communion Retreat at 8:45 in PAC/O'Malley Hall. Expect to stay until 11:30. Please remember this is mandatory and that one parent must attend with each communicant.

Best,
Mrs. C

It's Been a Busy Year!

My 26 busy-bees this year have been flourishing with their many different assignments and activities, along with preparing themselves for their Sacraments. I can't even believe we are weeks away from Reconciliation. In math, we've been working away at our subtraction facts, along with double digit addition with carrying, writing numbers in expanded notation, observing temperature, and solving more complicated word problems. In Social Studies, we've finished up our Hero Unit which included a report on big and everyday heroes, along with special guest speakers who came in to talk about how we all can be heroes to one another. We are now in the process of sending our Flat Travelers to our families and friends across the United States and we are looking forward to learning about their adventures. In Science,we have completed our rocks and minerals unit and are now beginning the much-anticipated Fossils and Dinosaurs unit. We are looking forward to constructing our dinosaur in the classroom {correction: our "Flying Reptile" ;0) }

Every day we are continuing to develop as Language Scholars. Daily 5 has made a huge difference in our reading abilities. Some students have jumped from the 50th to the 90th percentiles in their fluency! WOW! We are also becoming more vivid writers and independent learners.

We've had many Mystery Readers come in and surprise us throughout these past weeks. We love listening to different people read a variety of stories to us. 

Six brave, eager 2nd graders competed in the Spelling Bee. I am so  proud of all of them! Congratulations to Robby, Adam, Bella, Charlie, Nicole and Cassie!

Here's a look at what's been happening in 2nd grade these past weeks: