Back to School! Week of Sept. 7th

Good evening!

I hope that you have had a wonderful weekend! We are ready to get into the full swing of things in second grade. 

Thursday and Friday, we worked on getting to know our classroom, classmates, school and procedures. 

This week we will continue working on getting to know how the classroom works, each other as well as the school. 

If you were not able to make it to the back to school night, a red folder came home with your students on Friday. Please make sure that you look through and email me if you have any questions. 

This week we will begin working with our math program. There will be NO math homework this week, as I want the students to feel comfortable with just using our math program. We are going to talk about how to get online, and what I want them to do. Math homework will begin next week. Just a reminder, math homework will be put online for Monday through Thursday. All four papers will be due on Friday.

This week in Religion we will be talking about God our Father, prayer and names of Mary.

Homework for the week:

      On Tuesday, an owl activity will be coming home. This will be due on Monday, Sept. 15th. 

Reminders:

      We have mass on Wednesday at 1:45. 

       Thursday we will have PE. Your students may come in tennis shoes.
       Friday is a spirit day. Spirit days mean a Spirit shirt with uniform bottoms and shoes. 

      Please read the handbook for uniform policies as well at other important information. 

Have a wonderfully blessed week.

Mary, mother of God, pray for us. 

WELCOME!

WELCOME 2nd Grade Families! See you next week! :)

May 12th- May 16th

Happy Mother's Day! Only one week until First Communion and two weeks until the end of the school year. There is a lot going on in the next two weeks, I know we are going to have a blast. 

Literacy- 
This week we will be reviewing material from our last unit. Students will be reviewing author's purpose, drawing conclusions, sequence and comparing and contrasting. We will also be using verbs and compound words. 

Religion-

    As the students First Holy Communion is quickly approaching, we are learning about the mass as well as having more class discussion about the Eucharist. 

Math-
  
This week we are going to be practicing adding and subtracting money. We will finish the week with a test.
Social Studies/Science-

We will finish up with simple machines this week and talk briefly about the digestive system. We have some pretty neat activities that we will be doing. I am in need of saltine crackers and applesauce if you would like to donate any of these items. 

Spelling-

There will be no spelling tests the remainder of the year

Reminders-

I will be gone Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week attending to a personal matter. Mrs. Cann is going to be subbing. She has been a sub before and does an excellent job.There is important information regarding next school year in the Colt Express. It is near the bottom of the page. Please make sure that you read over it. 

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

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

Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!

May 5th- May 9th

Happy third week of Easter! I hope your weekend was restful and blessed! Here is what to look forward to this week! 
Literacy- 
Continuing this week: The format of our literacy lessons will be changing a bit. The story we are reading this week is called "A Froggy Fable". We are going to be talking about how change can be a little scary, difficult but it can also be comforting. We will be working on the following skills this week and possibly next:
- spelling with final syllable -le
- drawing conclusions and using background knowledge to read a text
- reading with fluency with a focus on appropriate rate and accuracy
- using adjectives in our writing
- using selection vocabulary

Religion-

    We are going to continue with learning about the Easter season. We will talk about the ways that Jesus revealed Himself to us after his Resurrection. We also have the May Crowning on Wednesday. Just another friendly reminder: please have your girls bring their mass uniforms to school to change into after the May Crowning on Wednesday. 

Math-
  
We will continue working with money for the next two weeks. We are going to count money up to a dollar, find different ways to make the same amount, make an organized list as well as take our topic test! 

Social Studies/Science-

We are still working with simple machines. We will continue working with levers, inclined planes, pulleys, wheel and axle as well as screws and wedges. 


Spelling-

We are going to continue working with -le words. Here are the lists for this week. 

Square:                       Triangle:
pale                                 pale
pebble                            pebble
chuckle                          tumble
Bible                               Bible
apostle                           file
crocodile                        beetle
couple                            cradle
shuffle                           shuffle
adaptable                      cuddle
freckle                           freckle
believable                     battle
steeple                          paddle

Reminders-

Our First Communion retreat is  Tuesday. Please make sure that your child brings a sack lunch and snack for the day. We are going to be leaving promptly at 8:15 and returning at 2:30. 


There is important information regarding next school year in the Colt Express. It is near the bottom of the page. Please make sure that you read over it. 

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

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

Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!

April 28th- May 2nd

How exciting that we had two popes canonized on Divine Mercy Sunday? How fitting! I hope that your Easter has been full of joy! Please see the reminder section as there are some very important reminders concerning the next two weeks! 
Literacy- 
The format of our literacy lessons will be changing a bit. The story we are reading this week is called "A Froggy Fable". We are going to be talking about how change can be a little scary, difficult but it can also be comforting. We will be working on the following skills this week and possibly next:
- spelling with final syllable -le
- drawing conclusions and using background knowledge to read a text
- reading with fluency with a focus on appropriate rate and accuracy
- using adjectives in our writing
- using selection vocabulary

Religion-

    We are in charge of mass on Wednesday. We practiced today and will practice again tomorrow. Your kiddos are doing so well! This week we will also continue to talk about the Easter season and the mass. 

Math-
  
We began our topic on money today and the kids had a blast playing the game that came home today. I can tell they are really excited to get into working with money and I don't blame them! Everything we have done has helped us get to this point and I know they are going to do really well. 

Social Studies/Science-

Today we began looking at simple machines. We will be taking a closer look at inclined planes, levers and pulleys, wheels and axles as the week progresses. 


Spelling-

Our spelling test this week will be working with the final syllable -le. Today we had a great time coming up with more than 50 -le words. Here are the spelling words for this week. The test will be on Friday. 

Square:                       Triangle:
ankle                               ankle
title                                 title
angle                               apple
cable                               cable
possible                          purple
agreeable                       able
bicycle                            bugle
bundle                           bundle
bubble                           bubble
giggle                             giggle 
sparkle                          sparkle
tickle                             tickle

Reminders-

Our First Communion retreat is next Tuesday. Please make sure that your child brings a sack lunch and snack for the day. We are going to be leaving promptly at 8:30 and returning at 2:30. If I haven't received a sign permission slip, I will be sending home another one. Please return them by Friday. 

Please see the email I sent regarding the May Crowning. If there are questions, let me know and I will get information back as soon as I can. 

There is important information regarding next school year in the Colt Express. It is near the bottom of the page. Please make sure that you read over it. 

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

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

Sts. John XXIII and John Paul II, pray for us! 

April 21st- 25th

Happy Easter! Christ has risen! Alleluia! It is my hope that you all had a restful and joyous Easter break! 

Literacy- 

Continuing with the lesson from last week: we are reading a story called "A Weed is a Flower." This is the biography of George Washington Carver. We are talking about where creative ideas come from. 
We are also talking about fact and opinion. We are learning the words excel, process, research, opportunity, accomplish, original, scientist and unusual. We will also be using comparative endings -er and -est. 


Religion-

    Continuing with the Easter season, we will be continuing to talk about the mass, sacraments and the Eucharist in mass. We will have our First Communion retreat May 6th. A field trip permission slip will be coming home this week. 

We will be in charge of mass on April 30th, students were told what their jobs will be for the mass. If you have any questions, please let me know. 
Math-
  
Geometry has been so much fun,  I love seeing those light bulbs pop up after a lesson! This week we are going to finish up geography by dividing rectangles into equal parts, using and showing equal parts as well as using reasoning to solve riddles about shapes. On Friday we will be taking our Topic 12 test. 

Next week we will begin Topic 13, which is money. 

Social Studies/Science-

Your students did really well with Westward Expansion. We played the Oregon Trail on the computer on Friday and unfortunately, we didn't make it. It was funny to hear the reactions of the kids after we had finished. Many of them said, "I used to think it would be fun to travel on the Oregon Trail, but it would be too hard." "Good thing we have planes, 'cause that would be rough." 


Spelling-

Our spelling test this week will be working with -er and -est endings. We began our lessons on this topic last week, however the spelling test will be this week. 
Your kids know what shape spelling words they have :)

Square:                       Triangle:
sooner                         sooner
soonest                       soonest
busier                          busier
busiest                        busiest
happier                       happier
happiest                     happiest
drier                           hotter
driest                         hottest
straighter                   smaller
straightest                  smallest
fatter                          fatter
fattest                        fattest

Reminders-

There is extremely important information about the beginning of next school year on the Colt Express. It is almost near the bottom of the post. Please check it out.

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. Anselm, pray for us.

Holy Week 2014

Good evening! I hope that you have a blessed Holy Week and enjoy your Easter break. As a reminder we will have no homework this week, which includes our weekly spelling test. There is no school Friday or Monday of next week.

Literacy- 

This week we are reading a story called "A Weed is a Flower." This is the biography of George Washington Carver. We are talking about where creative ideas come from. 
We are also talking about fact and opinion. We are learning the words excel, process, research, opportunity, accomplish, original, scientist and unusual. We will also be using comparative endings -er and -est. 
We are going to be doing a lot of writing about Holy Week.

Religion-

    We have been having fabulous discussion about Jesus in the Eucharist. This Holy Week has been wonderful so far and we are going to continue to focus on the journey of Christ during this week. We have also been talking about First Communion. 

We will be in charge of mass on April 30th, I will be sending home what your child will be helping with during mass later this week. 

Math-
  
We completed our unit on addition and subtraction and have moved into geometry. Your kids are loving it so far and they are all excelling. 

Social Studies/Science-

We have one more topic to discuss on Westward Expansion and then we will be moving into simple machines.  


Spelling-

We will be working with -er and -est endings, however there will be no spelling test this week. We will resume spelling tests next week.

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.

• Passion of Christ, strengthen us.