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!