Jan. 20th-24th

Literacy- 

This week and next we will be answering the big question "How can we work together to meet people's needs?" Our main selection will be called "Scarcity."  We will try to understand that meeting the needs of people requires many decisions and requires the work of many people. We will be learning 8 more amazing words! They are consumers, producers, strand, lack, decision, fiber, extraordinary, and typical. Our high-frequency words this week include: above, ago, enough, toward, whole and word. Children will also be able to distinguish between singular and plural nouns. 

Religion-

    This week we will be looking at two parables, the parable of the mustard seed and the parable of the buried treasure. After reviewing the unit we will be talking about Jesus as our teacher by looking at the parable of the Good Samaritan. 

Math-
  We have one more lesson in topic 9 which covers two-digit subtraction. We will be taking an assessment on topic 9 and then opening topic 10. Topic 10 will be looking at place value up to 1,000. 

IMPORTANT:  Please remember to send your child in with their homework sheet. There have been a number of students that haven't brought in their homework. They can either print it off or write it on a sheet of notebook paper. 

Social Studies/Science-

This we will continue with our unit on the water cycle. We will be looking at clouds and how they are formed. We will be also asking the question "What is precipitation?" 
 Your kids learned a new song this past week. It goes to the tune "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain"

Water travels in a cycle, yes it does.
Water travels in a cycle, yes it does.

It goes up as evaporation, 
forms clouds as condensation, 
and comes down as precipitation, 
yes it does. 


Spelling-
R-controlled vowels, ir, er, and ur are our next spelling topic, the words this week are: 
person, nurse, dirt, turn, birth, serve, curb, curl, skirt, purse, turtle and her. 


Reminders-

We are collecting books for Edison's Kindergarten class. Please help us collect 100 books by next Tuesday.

Next week is Catholic School's Week. Please see the school blog for information of the happenings of the week. 

Each day planners come home with the homework for the evening. Please make sure that homework is being completed each night. 

School mass is on Wednesday at 1:45, please wear mass uniforms.


Our school calendar of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.

St. Francis de Sales, pray for us!

Jan. 13th- Jan. 17th

We are off an running with the semester. I know that I am excited to have the kids back. It has been such a joy to see how they have grown in just two short weeks! 
Literacy- 

We are going to continue our study of Abraham Lincoln. We will understand that working together has changed history, involves many people and has made many positive changes. We will be learning 8 more amazing words! They are identify, participate, significant, scour, ingenious, aloft, architect and tinker. Our high-frequency words this week include: certainly, laugh, you're, either, second, great and worst. Children will also be able to identify proper nouns as well as count and segment phonemes. 

Religion-

    We finished our unit on the Holy Family and we are now moving into studying about good news that Jesus brings us all. We will be looking at two parables, the parable of the mustard seed and the parable of the buried treasure. 

Math-
  This week we are again working through subtracting two-two digit numbers. Even though it is a difficult concept, your kiddos seem to be grasping the concept of regrouping (borrowing) 1 ten into 10 ones. Challenge them this week with some two or three digit subtracting with and without regrouping. 

IMPORTANT:  Please remember to send your child in with their homework sheet. There have been a number of students that haven't brought in their homework. They can either print it off or write it on a sheet of notebook paper. 

Social Studies/Science-

In second grade, we really dive into the water cycle. We will be learning words like evaporation, condensation, precipitation. We will be learning a few songs, so the lyrics will be posted next week. We will be keeping a cloud journal over our study. 

Spelling-
Contractions are our next spelling topic, the words this week are: 
can't, I'm, she's, haven't, it's, didn't, aren't, hadn't, he's, who's, isn't, I'll. 


Reminders-

Each day planners come home with the homework for the evening. Please make sure that homework is being completed each night. 

School mass is on Wednesday at 1:45, please wear mass uniforms.


Our school calendar of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.

Jan. 6th- 10th

Merry Christmas and Happy Epiphany! 
I hope that you all had a much deserved break and a blessed Christmas! First of all, I would like to thank all of you for the wonderful Christmas presents and SCRIP. 
I cannot wait to see your children as we get ready to enter into the second semester of our school year! 

Literacy- 

Getting back into the swing of things, we are going to be reading about Abraham Lincoln this week. We will understand that working together has changed history, involves many people and has made many positive changes. We will be learning 8 more amazing words! They are identify, participate, significant, scour, ingenious, aloft, architect and tinker. Our high-frequency words this week include: certainly, laugh, you're, either, second, great and worst. Children will also be able to identify proper nouns as well as count and segment phonemes. 

Religion-

     Following our Christmas season, we are going to be discussing the Holy Family. We will look at Joseph, Mary and Jesus all independently. We will conclude looking at the Holy Family by discussing how we can become more like the Holy Family. 

*As a reminder, if you haven't filled out the paperwork for First Reconciliation and Communion, please make sure that fill that out and attend the workshops.*

Math-
  We flew through our topic on two-digit addition with regrouping. We will now be moving into subtracting two-digit numbers. We will be subtracting one-digit numbers from two-digit numbers with and without regrouping. 

IMPORTANT: In order to begin the transition to third grade, your child will need to bring in the math homework sheet that shows after the quiz. This is the reteaching, practice or enrichment sheet. They can either print it off or write it on a sheet of notebook paper. The homework will be due the following day. 

Social Studies/Science-

In second grade, we really dive into the water cycle. We will be learning words like evaporation, condensation, precipitation. We will be learning a few songs, so the lyrics will be posted next week. We will be keeping a cloud journal over our study. 

Spelling-
Contractions are our next spelling topic, the words this week are: 
can't, I'm, she's, haven't, it's, didn't, aren't, hadn't, he's, who's, isn't, I'll. 

I will be sending home a new spelling menu and words are posted on Spelling City. 
Reminders-

School mass is on Wednesday at 1:45, please wear mass uniforms.
Friday is a Spirit Day- uniform bottoms and a spirit shirt

Our school calendar of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.

T'was the week before Christmas....

Dear families! 
Happy third week of Advent! So excited for this week!
Have a wonderful Christmas break and I look forward to seeing you at the beginning of the new year! 
Here is what we are looking to accomplish this week in second grade:

Literacy- 

Knowing that this is the week before Christmas, your kiddos are so excited! We are doing a lot in literacy this week. We will be writing an opinion paper and a letter. We will also be identifying nouns and adjectives. We will also be reading many Christmas stories. 

Religion-

     It was absolutely amazing seeing your children receiving their First Reconciliation. There was palpable joy among the class! 

In religion this week, we are going to be talking about the coming of Christ and his birth. 

Math-
  We will be continuing with two two-digit addition!  We will finish this unit and test on it before the end of the semester.  When we come back, we will begin unit 9 which will cover two digit subtraction including regrouping.

IMPORTANT: In order to begin the transition to third grade, after Christmas Break, your child will need to bring in the math homework sheet that shows after the quiz. They can either print it off or write it on a sheet of notebook paper. 

Social Studies/Science-

Unfortunately, we won't be starting the water cycle until the beginning of the new year. 

Your kids did such an amazing job with the Ancient Greece unit! It was so wonderful to see their excitement in learning about mythology and history! 

Spelling-
We will not be starting a new literacy unit and with the shorter week, there will be no spelling test this week. 


Reminders-

Advent Angel presents will be due at the Christmas party on December 20th. 

Our school calendar of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.

December 9th- 13th

Dear families! 
Happy Second week of Advent!
This week will look very similar to last week because we didn't accomplish much with the early release and snow days.  
Here is what we are looking to accomplish this week in second grade:

Literacy- 

The question of the week is "How can we help each other in dangerous situations?" We are beginning a new unit and we will be talking about ways that we can work together.
We will continue to build our oral vocabulary with these 8 AMAZING words- courageous, rescue, instinct, blustery, hazard, avalanche, skittish, and fast-paced
Students will be determining cause and effect with different situations
We will be spelling r-controlled words- ar, or, ore, oar
We will review common nouns as well as reviewing sentences. 

We will also be covering the letter J and j in handwriting this week.

Religion-

     The school wide reconciliation service is on December 11th. Father Joe came to discuss reconciliation last week. We are also going to be discussing confession and the order of the sacrament. Your child should have the Act of Contrition memorized by Monday. We will receive the sacrament at 10am on Wednesday, we will then have a celebration in the afternoon before mass. 

Math-
  We will be working through two two-digit addition! I am extremely excited to help your kiddos learn this skill! (Although, we may have covered part of this in previous lessons :) ) 

This website is extremely helpful and has great games. Click here to access it.
Here is another AMAZING math website! 

IMPORTANT: In order to begin the transition to third grade, after Christmas Break, your child will need to bring in the math homework sheet that shows after the quiz. They can either print it off or write it on a sheet of notebook paper. 

Social Studies/Science-
We will finish this week our exploration of Ancient Greece. We will finish our newspapers with a look at the Olympics and Greek gods and goddesses. 

I will be showing this website to your kiddos, but feel free to continue your exploration of Ancient Greece here. 

We will also begin our study of the water cycle this week. Your kiddos will be learning a song called the Water Cycle Boogie and will post the lyrics next week! 

Spelling-
*Test on Friday!*
We are going to be learning about r-controlled vowels this week- the words we will be working with are:
hard, before, farm, chore, born, more, porch, score, horse, smart, corn, part

Reminders-

Our school calendar of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!

December 2nd-6th

Dear families! 
Happy Advent! 
I hope that you had a blessed and relaxing Thanksgiving! Here is what we are looking to accomplish this week in second grade:

Literacy- 

The question of the week is "How can we help each other in dangerous situations?" We are beginning a new unit and we will be talking about ways that we can work together.
We will continue to build our oral vocabulary with these 8 AMAZING words- courageous, rescue, instinct, blustery, hazard, avalanche, skittish, and fast-paced
Students will be determining cause and effect with different situations
We will be spelling r-controlled words- ar, or, ore, oar
We will review common nouns as well as reviewing sentences. 

We will also be covering the letter J and j in handwriting this week.

Religion-

     The school wide reconciliation service is on December 11th. Father Joe will be coming in to talk with both classes this week. We are also going to be discussing confession and why we need the sacrament of reconciliation. Please help your child memorize the Act of Contrition. They will be tested on the Act of Contrition on Monday December 9th. 

Math-
  We are going to finish our unit on mental subtraction. Beginning Wednesday, we will be working through two two-digit addition! I am extremely excited to help your kiddos learn this skill! (Although, we may have covered part of this in previous lessons :) ) 

This website is extremely helpful and has great games. Click here to access it.
Here is another AMAZING math website! 

IMPORTANT: In order to begin the transition to third grade, after Christmas Break, your child will need to bring in the math homework sheet that shows after the quiz. They can either print it off or write it on a sheet of notebook paper. 

Social Studies/Science-
We will finish this week our exploration of Ancient Greece. We will finish our newspapers with a look at the Olympics and Greek gods and goddesses. 

I will be showing this website to your kiddos, but feel free to continue your exploration of Ancient Greece here. 

We will also begin our study of the water cycle this week. Your kiddos will be learning a song called the Water Cycle Boogie and will post the lyrics next week! 

Spelling-
We are going to be learning about r-controlled vowels this week- the words we will be working with are:
hard, before, farm, chore, born, more, porch, score, horse, smart, corn, part

Reminders-

Our school calendar of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.

May God bless you!
St. Nicholas, pray for us!

Nov. 18th- Nov. 22nd

Literacy- 

The question of the week is "What can we learn from exploring new places and things?" We will be reviewing the past five units and the information covered.
We will review our amazing words- investigate  rural, urban, downy, perch, founders, muttered, unanimous, ascend, descend, orbit, universe, enormous  journey, launch, meteorite, tranquil, wildlife, fledglings, secure  detective, fascinating, slimy, arid, landform, precipitation, dunes, ledge, haven, extinct, forbidding, delicate, stun, exhibit, resist, sturdy, satisfaction, inquire and genius
We will also review our high frequency words- beautiful, country, friend, front, someone, somewhere, everywhere, live, machines, move, woman, work, world, bear, build, couldn't, father, love, mother, straight, animals, early, eyes, full, warm, water, gone, learn, often, pieces, though, together, very
Students will be reviewing alphabetizing and synonyms
We will be reviewing short vowels, consonant blends, inflected endings and consonant diagraphs

Your children this week will also be reviewing sentences, identifying subjects, predicates and determining if a sentences is declarative, interrogative, exclamatory or imperative.

We will also be covering the letter J and j in handwriting this week.

Religion-

     With our reconciliation service just around the corner we are going to begin talking about forgiveness and how God calls us to Him. We will be discussing sin and how we ask for forgiveness and and are given it freely.
According to the workshop schedule for reconciliation, the last workshop is on December 15th. If your child is receiving the sacrament of reconciliation through Corpus Christi, they will miss the last workshop. In lieu of the workshop, Mrs. Ortiz and I have invited Fr. Joe to come and talk to each of our classes about the same thing that would be presented in the workshop.The school wide reconciliation service will be on December 11th. 
Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday at 1:45pm. 

Math-
  We are now moving into mental subtraction. We will be discussing subtracting tens, finding parts of 100, subtracting on a hundred chart and subtracting multiples of 100.
Please continue to have your child practice with tens and ones. This website is extremely helpful and has great games. Click here to access it.

Social Studies-
We will continuing to explore Ancient Greece. You student will discover how life in Ancient Greece would be different than life today. They will gain understanding of important people such as Socrates and Alexander the Great during their trip back in time.
Your students are LOVING learning about Ancient Greece (at least from what I am seeing in class) I would love to continue this unit, however after Thanksgiving we will be moving onto the water cycle. 

I will be showing this website to your kiddos, but feel free to continue your exploration of Ancient Greece here. 

Spelling-


We are reviewing all of the phonics units from the past five units. We will be reviewing all of the spelling words. Please use the lists from Spelling City to review our words.

Reminders-

I will be inputting grades throughout the week. I apologize for not getting them in the weekend, there was a lot we accomplished this past week! 

Our school calendar of events can be found at cccscoltexpress.blogspot.com

Next week we do not have school because of Thanksgiving Break! I hope that you have a wonderful week! 

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to email me.

May God bless you!
St. Cecila, pray for us!