Welcome to 2-2

for the Week of

September 16, 2019!
 

It was a pleasure to see all my students' parents at Back to School Night last Thursday and at the Block Party on Friday!  

The handbooks went home with the youngest or only child in each family on Friday. Please sign and return cards on Monday, 9/16.

Beginning Monday, 9/16, two books per day will go home to be covered.  Please return books the next day.

Formal Testing begins this week!  Test folders will go home for signature and review this Tuesday.  They will contain last weeks "practice tests" in spelling, phonics, and reading. 

Band begins this Friday, 9/20.

Please continue to sign and review all homework and the green notebook each day.  Check your child's Take Home Folder each day. 

*Students must adhere to the uniform guidelines.  Lights will be issued to students who are not wearing the correct uniform. 

Weekly News

RELIGION
Jesus is God's best gift to us.  He shows us the way to the Father.  Developing a trusing and loving relationship with Jesus will help us grow in our love of Him and others as we live like his disciples. Please be sure to pray a Hail Mary each day to Mary, the patron saint of second grade.

MATH
We will review all the various addition strategies taught so far, including the use of number lines, counting on, using doubles facts, and making a ten.  The students will also learn how to add three addends and use these strategies to solve word problems.  A quiz will be given on Wednesday, 9/18.

READING
The theme of our two stories, "Mara Celebrates Brazil" and "The Big Red Lollipop", focus on how how families around the world are the same and different.  We will have a reading comprehension test on Friday, 9/20.  The reader will be sent home on Thursday for review and may count towards reading log time.  Please remember to record the 15 minutes of daily reading in the reading log and return to school each Friday. 

PHONICS
The sounds of all consonants, vowels, digraphs, and blends will be reviewed.  This week we stress the letters, "c, k, and ck" in spelling words with the /k/ sound.  A quiz will be given on Thursday, 9/19. Please refer to the phonics packet that went home last Monday and go over with your child at home.

SPELLING
Students will be given 15 words to study; a test will be given this Friday.  All homework for spelling should be written in the green notebook.
1. went, 2. tell, 3. pet, 4. job, 5. fog, 6. not, 7. tug, 8. hut, 9. tub, 10. bun, 11. they,
12. said, 13. one, 14. or, 15. see    

GRAMMAR
The students will learn the rules for capitalization and ending punctuation in  a complete sentence. 

WRITING
Our class will use their skills to write a sensory poem about the season of Autumn..