September 3rd-6th

Ms. Gonzalez's Class News for September 3rd- 6th

Literacy:

• Continue to build stamina in writing
• Coninue reading Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
• Properly punctuate sentences.
• Use precise nouns in our writing. (ex. The room in your house has new cabinets. vs. The kitchen in your house has new cabinets.)
• Use vivid verbs in our writing. (ex. The horse runs. vs. The horse gallops.)
• Use active adjectives in our writing. (ex. She sat under a tree. vs. She sat under a leafy tree.)
• Create and illustrate silly sentences that use adjectives, verbs and nouns.
  

Handwriting:

• Lowercase b
• Capital C
• lowercase c

Religion:

• Order of Creation
• God created the Angels
• The Fall of Angels
• The test and fall of Adam and Eve

• Continue to build stamina for First Friday adoration.

Math:

• Assessment of student’s understanding of the concepts and skills in Topic 1.
• Introduction to Topic 2- Addition Strategies
• Topic 2, lesson 1: Adding 0,1,2
• Topic 2, lesson 2: Adding doubles
  

Social Studies/ Science:

• Continue our geography unit.
• Students will also be able to locate themselves, their community, their state, their country, their continent and their planet on a map.
• Students will be able to identify that a map is a representation of a place and understand that a map is not the same as a picture, that it uses symbols.
• Students will identify the Equator, Poles and Hemispheres.
• Students will be able to identify different geographical features, including: coast, valley, prairie, desert, oasis, harbor, bay and island.

Reminders:

I hope you had a wonderful five day weekend! I learned all about the sacraments at the Aquinas Catechetical Institute!

Wednesday Mass at 1:45pm. Remember to wear mass uniforms.

Thursday is PE, please remember gym shoes.

Grandparents day on Friday Sept. 6th there is also noon dismissal from classrooms that day.

Math homework will be graded this week online. Please read the previous blog about the Envision Math.

Envision Math

Alright, so now that I am finally understanding the online math portion of our program and have gone through it with your lovely children, I can hopefully help to rid you of some of your headaches. :)

When you log on, there are two programs for you to look at. Right now, we are just going to be using the Envision Math. (That is until I can become more familiar with Reading Street.)  

If and when there is an assignment for your child to complete, the tab on the left side of the banner will say "To Do," click on that and it will show the assignments you need to complete. 

After you get to the assignments screen, click on the assignment for the day. There will be a pop-up. The left side will have three options, "Learn, Guided and Independent Practice and Quiz." Have your child watch the Learn video, this will be review for what we did in class. 

After your child has watched the video, you can skip the guided and independent practice, this portion is what we will have completed in class together. 

Then your student will take the quiz. There is a bottom bar that has bubbles labeled A, B, C, D with two arrow button. Click the bubble of the answer on that bottom bar, you will not be able to select the actual problem. Once they have the quiz graded a link will appear for reteaching, practice or enrichment. You do not need to print this page off, however, encourage your child to work on the problems. I will use the grade of the quiz and work from in class to grade the lesson, I will also use the quiz to enrich or reteach the lesson. 

Once the lesson homework is complete, don't forget to click the I'm Done button on the right side of the assignment. This will submit the assignment to me, otherwise it cannot be graded. 

I hope this brings about a little more clarity and I will be walking through the homework at the Back to School Night on September 12th!

Thank you for your patience and working through this with me! 

Many blessings, 

Ms. Gonzalez

August 26th

Ms. Gonzalez's Class News for August 26th- 30th

Literacy:

• Continue to build stamina in writing
• Begin reading Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (It just came in from the library)
• Whole group reading
• Continue practicing center procedure
• Working with spelling words
• Small group reading
• listening center
• working with long and short “a”

Handwriting:

• Lowercase a
• Capital B
• Lowercase b

Religion:

• The Blessed Trinity
• Three Persons One God
• God calls us to share in His relationship of love
• God the Creator
• God created out of love
• We are made to praise God
• God made us
• We are made in the image and likeness of God

• Continue to build stamina for First Friday adoration..
  

Math:

• Students will write related addition and subtraction facts.
• Students will use counters to model and solve addition and subtraction problems.
• Reteaching and assessment of student’s understanding of the concepts and skills in Topic 1.

Social Studies/ Science:

• Continue our geography unit.
• Students will assessed on their knowledge of the seven continents and four oceans.
• Students will also be able to locate themselves, their community, their state, their country, their continent and their planet on a map.

Reminders:

No school on Thursday August 29th or 30th.  Have a wonderful weekend!

Mass will be celebrated on Wednesdays at 1:45pm. You are more than welcome to attend.

Grandparents day is September 6th. An invitation went home Friday, please return them if you are able to attend.

No paper math homework will be coming home this week. Please read the email I sent home previously about logging onto Pearson. Assignments can be found in the students to-do list.  

Geography Songs!

2nd Grade Families! 

For the past week, our kiddos have been learning a Continent song and an Ocean song! I have included the lyrics below! Have your child sing them for you! We are going to be singing them to 3rd, 4th and 5th grade next week!!

Continents

(To the tune of: "Its a Small World")

It's a small world after all!
It's a small world after all!
It's a small world after all!
It's a small, small world!

North and South America, 
Europe, Asia, Africa, 
Australia and Antarctica, 
It's a small, small world!



The Oceans

(To the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean")

The earth is all covered with ocean, 
The earth is all covered with sea, 
The earth is all covered with ocean,
More water than land, don't you see?

(Chorus)
Water, water, there's water all over the world, the world,
water, water, there's water all over the world.

So salty and cold is the ocean, 
So salty and cold is the sea, 
So salty and cold is the ocean, 
Too cold and too salty for me.

Chorus

Atlantic, Pacific, the Arctic, 
and then there's the Indian, too. 
These oceans all cover our planet, 
I named all of them, now can you?

Chorus




*These songs were not created by me. They were created by Bruce Frazee, Chris Garcia-Prats, Jenny Tasian, Amy Yang Hawthorne Elementary /Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas*



Have a wonderful weekend!

August 19th- 23rd

Ms. Gonzalez's Class News for August 19th- August 23rd

Here is what we are going to be doing in class this week!

Literacy:

• Phonics assessment
•  Identifying initial, medial and final consonant sounds
• building writing stamina
• What and why authors write
• procedures for how to work in centers and  in small groups
• begin reading Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

Handwriting:

• Procedures for handwriting
• Pre-test in handwriting
• Identify letter size
• Identify letter strokes
• Write capital A

Religion:

• We will be answering four major questions  this week.
• Who made you?
• Who is God?
• Where is God?
• Does He know everything?
• On Friday, we will be going over to the church to build stamina in preparation for First Friday adoration.
• We will also be identifying areas of the church and talking about the use of them.

Math:

• Beginning our unit on understanding addition and subtraction
• Students will write addition number sentences
• Students will model joining stories
• Students will write subtraction number sentences
• Students will model separating stories
• Students will write subtraction sentences to solve stories about comparing groups

Social Studies/ Science:

• We are beginning the year by learning about continents, oceans, communities, maps and legends.
• This week we will begin by reviewing the seven continents and four oceans.
• Students will also be able to locate themselves, their community, their state, their country, their continent and their planet on a map.
• We played a game on Tuesday the students really loved! It is here!

Reminders:

Specials are as follows:

Monday- Spanish

Tuesday- Music

Wednesday- Art

Thursday- P.E. (please have black tennis shoes)

Friday- Technology

Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday at 1:45pm. You are more than welcome to attend.

Planners will be coming home this week, please review the student handbook and this week's schedule.  

This week I will begin sending math homework home. Until I can get the online math component figured out, please be on the lookout for the homework on paper.

Please contact me with any questions!