2nd Grade Weekly Newsletter
Reminders
- Thursday, December 18th: Christmas Program- 10am and 7pm
- Friday, December 19th- Polar Express Pajama Party (We will be
enjoying popcorn during the movie. No extra treats are necessary.)
- December 22nd - January 2nd: Christmas Vacation
- Thursday, January 15th- 1st and 2nd Grade led Mass, 8:15
- Monday, January 19th- No School
- Saturday, January 24: First Communion Retreat!!!
- Make sure to check my website for all important dates for First
Communion.
- meet in Fellowship Hall at 2pm. Parents should meet us at 4:15
in the Hall for a closing prayer service.
Important Papers in Thursday Folder
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School Thursday Update
Script Order Form
Art Club Sign Up Slip
Building Our Faith Together Event Flyer
To Be Returned
- none
2nd Grade News
The room is all full of lights, garland, candy canes, ornaments, and angels. The boys are
loving the room and the cheerful feeling that comes with it. Our main focus is talking each day a
part of Advent. We have a little interactive calendar that helps them think about the events that
led up to Jesus’ birth.
Religion
Our disciple power word was Honor. When we honor others, we show respect and value
them. We honor God because we are proud to be his children. We learned about the many names
of God. He is one and only, the God, our Father. He is our Father who shows love for us. We
talked about how our dads show love to us. God is the Creator, the creator of all things, everyone
and everything. The biggest thing is he made everything out of Love! God the Almighty and he
has the power to everything and everything God does is good.
The students made gifts to put under our Christmas tree on our bulletin board. They drew
one of the gifts God has blessed them with (from creation).
Math
We are continue to practice double digit addition but we will be moving onto double digit
subtraction tomorrow! This is just as difficult as addition. One step at a time.
Reading
I am now reading The House Without a Christmas Tree. This is a great book to show
what Christmas is all about and how to give back to others who have little. We continue to fill
out the details in our story elements chart of characters, the setting, the problem, and the solution
as we find out more information.
Each student, read a specific Christmas story to me that I chose for them and then they
wrote a book recommendation on an ornament. We discussed how to write a book
recommendation. Those are also hung in the room.
Writing
We are continuing to work on our narrative paragraphs. The type of paragraph tells the
details of a specific event. We are creating a narrative paragraph as a group and they are working
on their own. We finished up our class narrative paragraph and wrote all the sentences for the
paragraph. We are now onto revising, where we are adding detail.
The boys also wrote acrostic poems with the word Christmas and wrote them on a
stocking. They are hung in the room above our tree.
Grammar
They have had some fun Christmas themed activities to practice nouns, adjectives, and
verbs.
Science/ Social Studies
We are now learning about the United States of America’s past. We have learned about
Native Americans, the Spanish, the Pilgrims, and onto the 13 colonies becoming free after the
American Revolution. They discussed the significance between the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution for our country. Our next topic will be slavery and the Civil War.
We will start our Timeline projects on Friday. Thank you for filling out the information.
Have a fun weekend!!
Mrs. Ziegler