Smile Everyone! 

Some special events are coming up this week and here they are:

Monday, October 13:  Regular schedule of classes

Tuesday, 14:  All School Mass--8:00 AM--Church--Please join us if you are able.

First Reconciliation Parent Meeting--6:30 to 7:45--Cafeteria

Book Orders sent home

Wednesday, October 15:  Picture Day

Thursday, October 16:  Primary Mass--8:00 AM--Church--Please join us if you are able

Jim Jelinske--9:30--Gym

Alternate Reconciliation Parent Meeting--6:30 to 7:45--St. Joe's Cafeteria

Friday, October 17: Book Orders Due

Thursday, October 30:  Just a heads up, our Math class on the 30th will be "Pumpkin Math".  To make this class a successful learning experience, we need parent help.  Five (5) adult volunteers (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles) plus the teacher would be ideal.  If you can help out between 10:15 and 11:15 on October 30th please let me know.

   

Reading

Story for the week:  Welcome to a New Museum a Time for Kids selection.

  Comprehension strategies focused on during the first unit: Making predictions and story elements

Phonics skills for this story:  Review of long and short vowels in preparation for a reading test at the end of the week.

Study skills for this story: Using the Internet

Spelling

Spelling words this week will be words from Social Studies .

  Spelling words for the week of October 13th will be introduced with a pretest and sent home on Monday. The final spelling test will be on Friday, October 17 . Students will be tested on ALL 15 words.

  In second grade students will have written spelling homework every Monday night.  They will be expected to alphabetize the spelling words (those that demonstrate the spelling pattern--the first 10) and use the challenge words in sentences (the last 5 words).  This homework will be due on Wednesdays this year.
 

Extra Spelling Words: (No extra words for the first few weeks of school.)   Students  who  make less than 3 errors on the spelling pretest each week will be able to choose 5 extra words to study.  Their extra words will be stapled to the spelling pretest on Monday.  On Friday these students will be tested on 20 words, the 10 spelling words, the 5 challenge words and their 5 extra words.   These students do not have to use their extra spelling words in sentences for Monday nig h t homework .

Math

Students will continue working on Chapter 4, which focuses on data, graphing and probability.

Please click on the file  below for the rubric for Chapter 4.

Math Homework for the Week of October 13.

Monday: Worksheet

Tuesday: Worksheet

Wednesday: Worksheet

Thursday: Worksheet

Students are expected to master their addition and subtraction facts in second grade .  The children will be expected to complete a 100 problem test in 7 minutes or less. 

The next facts test will be on Thursday, October 16.  It will be a subtraction facts test--50 problems in 7 minutes.  

Religion

Unit One in religion reviews the basic beliefs of our Catholic faith.  The Lesson this week is titled: Jesus is the Son of God

The first unit in Social Studies includes the study of different types of communities and the people who live and work in them.  So far students have reviewed map skills learned in first grade, discussed what makes their own communities special, constructed maps of their individual neighborhoods, and have or will watch a video on three different kinds of communities: urban, suburban, and rural.  These are not words one commonly uses around the house (at least not our house) so if you can discuss these different types of communities with your student it will help him/her become familiar with the terms and understand what they mean.

 Students continue to work on personal narratives.  Currently they are working on a story about something they did with a friend, relative, or pet.