Feb. 18th- Feb. 21st

Thank you so much for meeting with me at Parent/ Teacher conferences, I always enjoy talking with each and every one of you! 

I hope that you all enjoyed the four day weekend. We are going to have a packed week this week.  Our spelling test will be on Friday. 

Reminder: There is going to be no homework next week due to ITBS, but please make sure that you are reading with your child every night! 
Literacy- 

This week we will be answering the big question "How can we work together to solve problems?" Our main selection will be called "One Good Turn Deserves Another."  We will work to understand that working together resolves conflict, share responsibility and work, allows us to spend time with others as well as help those in need. We will be learning 8 more amazing words! They are conflict, pursue, resolve, deserve, mope, coax, ramp and startle. Our high-frequency words this week include: behind, brought, door, everybody, minute, promise, sorry. Children will also be able to identify and use possessive nouns.

Religion-

    We will be be talking about prayer and learning about the petitions in the Our Father. 

Math-
  
As a second grade, we are going to skip a few topics in Pearson (we will be going back to them.) We will be covering measurement, time and money before moving into three digit addition and subtraction. 

Social Studies/Science-


We will be talking about pollination and harmful and helpful insects this week as well as understanding the life cycles that a bug goes through. This week we will also be looking at poetry and students will be able to compare them to the information that we have already learned. Just a friendly reminder that the insect projects are due on February 24th. There will be time that week that we will have a showcase. When we have more information I will be sure to let you know! 


Spelling-

We will be working on spelling the vowel patterns -a, -ay, and -ai

main, wait, say, away, play, raise, brain, paint, stay, today, tray, tail


Reminders-

Next week we will have ITBS testing. Please make sure that your child gets a good night sleep and good breakfast! 

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. Basil, pray for us.

Feb. 10th- Feb. 14th

What a short week last week! Please make sure that you check the Colt Express, there is a lot of information about the upcoming testing as well important calendar events going on!

Due to the two snow days followed by the half day last week, we will not be doing much differently than last week. 

Our spelling test will be on Wednesday. 

Parent/teacher conferences will be on Thursday and Friday, please return the confirmation slips by Tuesday. 

We will be going on our field trip Monday, please have your child bring a sack lunch as our field trip will interfere with our lunch hour. 

Literacy- 

This week we will be answering the big question "Why is it a good idea to work together?" Our main selection will be called "The Breman Town Musicians."  We will try to understand that working together solves problems, provides safety and protection, helps us survive, and helps get the job done. We will be learning 8 more amazing words! They are partnership, solution, survival, miserable, struggle, depend, familiar and insist. Our high-frequency words this week include: bought, people, pleasant, probably, scared, shall and sign. Children will also be able to identify and spell plural nouns that change spellings. 

Religion-

    In religion this week we will be learning the corporal works of mercy and how to live them in our daily lives. We will also be talking about prayer and learning about the petitions in the Our Father. 

Math-
  As a second grade, we are going to skip a few topics in Pearson (we will be going back to them.) We will be covering measurement, time and money before moving into three digit addition and subtraction. 

Social Studies/Science-

Unfortunately because of the shortened week last week, we were not able to continue too far into our insect unit. This week we will be talking about our bug report. We will also be making an edible insect. (If you would be willing to donate to the project, please let me know.)
We will also be talking about pollination and harmful and helpful insects.


Your child brought home a bug report project, if you have questions please email me. These are due on February 24th. 


Spelling-

We will be working on spelling plurals, -s, -es, and -ies

lunch, lunches, story, stories, tune, tunes, switch, switches, baby, babies, note, notes 



Reminders-

Our Valentine's Day party will be at 11am on Thursday Feb. 13th. There is a noon dismissal on that day and there is no school Friday. 

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. Cyril and Methodius, pray for us.

Feb. 3rd- Feb 7th

Thank you for all of your help and flexibility during Catholic Schools Week, we had a very successful week and I hope that you all enjoyed the snow day! :)

Literacy- 

This week we will be answering the big question "Why is it a good idea to work together?" Our main selection will be called "The Breman Town Musicians."  We will try to understand that working together solves problems, provides safety and protection, helps us survive, and helps get the job done. We will be learning 8 more amazing words! They are partnership, solution, survival, miserable, struggle, depend, familiar and insist. Our high-frequency words this week include: bought, people, pleasant, probably, scared, shall and sign. Children will also be able to identify and spell plural nouns that change spellings. 

Religion-

    In religion this week we will be learning the corporal works of mercy and how to live them in our daily lives. We will also be talking about prayer and learning about the petitions in the Our Father. 

Math-
  We will continue our unit on place value, we will be learning how to spell words up to 1,000. We will be changing numbers by hundreds and tens, we will also be skip counting. 

Social Studies/Science-

Unfortunately because of the shortened week last week, we were not able to continue too far into our insect unit. This week we will be talking about our bug report. We will also be making an edible insect. (If you would be willing to donate to the project, please let me know.)
We will also be talking about pollination and harmful and helpful insects.


Spelling-

We will be working on spelling plurals, -s, -es, and -ies

lunch, lunches, story, stories, tune, tunes, switch, switches, baby, babies, note, notes 



Reminders-

There will be a noon dismissal on Friday.

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. Blaise (patron of throat illnesses), pray for us.

Jan. 27th- Jan. 31st

This week is Catholic School's week, we will have lots of activities going on, and we may not get to everything. Thank you so much for your support and I look forward to seeing you at tall of the events we have going on. 

Literacy- 

This week 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-

    We are going to begin learning about Jesus as our teacher. We will be reviewing the parable of the Good Samaritan as well as understanding more deeply the call to love our neighbors.

Math-
  We began our unit on place value on Friday. We are going to continue working with two-digit subtraction. Some of the students are struggling with two-digit subtraction, so please continue working with them on two-digit subtraction with regrouping. We will continue working on this in class, but extra support at home will reinforce the concepts. 

Social Studies/Science-

Our unit on the water cycle will be coming to a close on Tuesday. We will begin our unit on Insects. There will be a project involved with this unit. Please be looking for a rubric to come home as your child will need your help. 


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-

This week is Catholic Schools' Week. We have a lot of fun activities planned, please look at the Colt Express for a schedule as there are events that parent's are invited to attend. 

There is no Wednesday mass this week, however we have All School's mass on Friday. Friday is also a noon dismissal day. 

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. John Bosco, pray for us!

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.