Here's what's happening in 2nd grade

We're learning a lot of new things this week!

In MATH we're learning about identifying positions (first, second, third), adding 2 to a number, and creating/reading repeating patterns. We have a short math test on Thursday, 10/3 and we'll do a practice test in class on Wednesday.

In SPELLING, our words are: talked, talking, dropped, dropping, excited, exciting, lifted, lifting, hugged, hugging, smiled, smiling. Our challenge words are: dragging, amazed, danced. Our test is Thursday afternoon (due to our Friday field trip).

In WRITING we're learning about author's purpose, and writing persuasive letters in our journals.

In GRAMMAR we're learning about joining sentences using "and" or "but".

In READING we're talking about the five W's of fiction: who, what, when, where, and why.

In RELIGION, we're studying how the Catholic church teaches us to live.

In SCIENCE, we're finishing up the water cycle.

In SOCIAL STUDIES, we're looking at important people in history.

Whew! After all that studying, we'll be ready for a fun field trip to Green Meadows Farm on Friday!

Happy Friday!

We had a fantastic end to the week! Everyone ended the week earning extra reward stickers because everyone had great Friday behavior! We also earned another "brownie point" because Mrs. Caporale told the 2nd graders that she was proud of their behavior in Mass today. Two more brownie points (compliments) to go, and the class earns a brownie party!

Everyone's homework for the weekend is to read at least 15 minutes each day, and to HAVE FUN! Have a great weekend everyone!

What are we up to today?

We second graders have done a lot this week so far! In math we started to tell time to the 1/2 hour, and we're learning to tell the difference between odd and even numbers. We also spent time learning "some, and then some went away" math problems, which is our introduction to subtraction. They are doing a great job!

In writing, we talked about brainstorming, which is coming up with as many ideas as you can. Our writing topic of the week is "Important Places In My Life." They have interesting stories! We also started learning beginning cursive strokes this week.

In spelling, we're talking about consonant blends, and we used our spelling words this week as an example. We talked about the sounds associated with th, sh, st, and br. We're ready for our Friday spelling test!

In grammar, we're working on starting sentences with a capital letter and ending them with a period, exclamation mark, or question mark.

In Social Studies, we are finishing our personal timelines this week - what hard workers! In Science we're finishing up a unit on Weather.

Finally, in Religion we are studying the Sacrament of Baptism, and learning the signs (water, oil, candle, white clothes) that go along with Baptism. They are bringing home a take-home test today and it's due tomorrow. Everyone got a great start on it in class today.

So - that's our busy, fantastic week so far!  Please remember that field trip permission slips and money are due tomorrow! If you have questions, please feel free to ask!

Congratulations to our newest Student Council Members!

We held Student Council elections today, and Sam and Gianna were chosen as our class Student Council Representatives today, and Braeden is our alternate. Once a month Gianna and Sam will attend Student Council meetings with other classroom representatives. The first meeting is this Thursday, September 26th at noon. Braeden will attend if Sam or Gianna can't make it. Congratulations!

We have a Religion test this Thursday, but don't panic! This chapter was a long one with lots of information, so we decided to make it a take-home test. Everyone got a review sheet in class today, and they can use it on their take-home test. We also reviewed the chapter in class today and we'll do the same thing on Thursday. The test will come home Thursday and it is due Friday.

FIELD TRIP COMING UP: Field trip forms are in the red dot section of your child's OCEAN binder. We are going to Green Meadows Farm on Friday, Oct. 4th. The forms are due this Friday, and the students earn a valuable Brownie Point if all of the forms are returned tomorrow!

As a reminder, please sign your child's assignment notebooks each night. They earn rewards if their ANB (assignment notebook) is signed for the entire week. Thanks!

A New Week of Exciting Learning

It sounds like everyone had a great weekend. We are back and ready to learn. Today we also celebrated Ben's birthday - thanks for the cupcakes, Ben!

We had our spelling pre-test today. Our test is Friday and here are this week's consonant blend spelling words:

stop          stream        
strap         mask
nest           twin
hand         breeze
brave        state
ask
clip

Our alternate, optional spelling words are:

browse       straight        skeleton

Have a great day everyone!

We are HAPPY 2nd graders today!

Second grade had a GREAT day! Everyone did a fabulous job on their math test!

Our most exciting news is that everyone in the class was on green or higher for our behavior chart! That means everyone did their job today and so they ALL earned stickers toward their reward goals.

Nathan reminded the class that we also added another brownie to our "Brownie Points" pan today, because Mrs. St. Louis complimented us on the great job we did on our math test!

Some of us are ready for tomorrow's spelling test and some of us need to study a little tonight. Don't forget, there is no school on Friday. The kids are ready for a long weekend!

2nd Grade Says "Hi"

Here we are, and we just finished lunch and recess. The second graders would like you to know what we've been up to today. We read a fun book about Bats, and learned how to organize the main ideas for writing.Our class also wants the parents to know that there is a password master list in today's take-home folder for each child. Hopefully this will help you keep all the the passwords straight! There is one web site (www.storybird.com) that we haven't started using yet, but we will soon.

We had our first music class today with our new teacher, Mrs. Kuhl. It was fun!

Also - since most of the parents would like to know how their child's behavior was in class each day, we started a daily behavior chart. Please look for it in the front of the OCEAN binder. We will complete these each day, so you know how your child's day went.

Thanks for reading - from Mrs. Theriault's second grade class :)