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!