Biography Fair Reminders

1.  Reports and posters are being completed at school!
2.  Send your child's costume to school on Friday!
*If you still need help brainstorming a costume, please send us an email - we are happy to help!
*We can store hanging items in our coat closets.
*We will help the students get ready after lunch.
*If you need something done with hair, make-up, fastening clothing, etc... please send us an email.
3.  Everyone is welcome!
*The fair is from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the 2nd Grade classrooms
*We encourage you to ask the students questions about their famous people.

         

Week of April 30

RELIGION

*First Communion Review and Assessment

*May Crowning Mass

*Identify important characteristics about Mary

*Review how to pray the Rosary

*Video: Bread from Heaven

MATH

*Weekly time tests PRACTICE ONLY (no tests this week)

*Unit 9 continues

*Measure AREA using square units

*Identify capacity as a unit of measurement

*Math Boxes practice

DAILY 5

*Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work & Listen to Reading

*Mini-Lesson: Identifying the main idea in a multi-paragraph text

SCIENCE

*Weather Unit

*Identify types of tools to measure weather and their purpose

*Compare tornadoes, floods and hurricanes as types of extreme weather

WRITING

*BIOGRAPHY FAIR PREP!!!

Posted by Courtney Waters 

First Eucharist Success

CONGRATULATIONS 2ND GRADERS!
We are so very proud of you on receiving your First Communion.
We can't wait to celebrate the Eucharist with you at Mass each week.  XOXO

Week of April 23rd

*Please send a 4x6 picture of your child from First Communion for our 2nd Grade bulletin board!
*Biography books should be at school from this point on for research!
*Printed picture of biography person due Thursday (information sent home last week)
*Annual Biography Fair Friday, May 4th from 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Week of April 16th

RELIGION

*Final First Communion preparation :)

*Identify parts of the Communion Rite and Sending Rite

*Label Mass timeline

*Visit from Father Ray, Father Andrew and Deacon Bill

*Continue to practice a procession and how to receive the Eucharist

MATH

*Weekly time tests continue

*Unit 9 continues

*Measurement practice using different instruments

*Conversions

*Comparing measurements

DAILY 5

*Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work & Listen to Reading

*Mini-Lesson: "Start with Hello" Week Lessons

SCIENCE

*Weather Unit

*Identify how the seasons change

*Change in seasons causes changes in weather

*Review the water cycle

*Identify types of tools to measure weather and their purpose

WRITING

*Iowa Hall of Pride Field Trip

*List important qualities of a biography

*Choose biography books

*Begin research!

Week of April 9th

RELIGION

*First Communion Preparation

*Discuss new learnings and favorites from the weekend retreat

*Identify parts of the Liturgy of the Eucharist & Communion Rite

*Label Mass timeline

*Continue to practice a procession and how to receive the Eucharist

MATH

*Weekly time tests continue

*Fraction story problems

*Unit 8 Review

*Unit 8 Assessment

*Unit 9 begins ~ look for a new family letter

DAILY 5

*Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work & Listen to Reading

*Mini-Lesson: Glossary practice and skills

SCIENCE

*Forces and Motion Review

*Forces and Motion Assessment

*Weather Presentation from Polk County Conservation

*Weather Unit begins

WRITING

*Wrap-up Poetry Week

Week of April 3rd

RELIGION

MATH

*Weekly time tests continue

*Unit 8 continues

*Identify fractions as part over a whole

*Recognize equivalent fractions

*Compare fractions and decide which is greater

*Identifying collections of things as fractions

DAILY 5

*Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work & Listen to Reading

*Mini-Lesson: DICTIONARY SKILLS Assessment

SCIENCE

*Forces and Motion

*Identify a push and pull

*Name the four major forces: wind, water, gravity, magnetism

*Friction Experiment

WRITING

*National Poetry Month

*Students will learn and write different types of poems

-Couplets

-Cinquains

-Acrostic

-Hink Pinks

-Haikus