January Happenings in Second Grade

Important Dates:

• 1- 2     School reopens

• 1- 3       Early dismissal - bring peanut free snack

• 1- 4      Second session of Renaissance testing begins

• 1 - 10   Project index card due by today

• 1 - 17   Chore pictures, dog and cat food, and project due today

• 1 - 20    No school for students 

• 1 - 22    Class pictures - full winter uniform with sweater must be worn

• 1 - 26    Catholic school Week Mass and Open House

• 1 - 28    Open House for Kdg - Grade 3

• 1-  30      Student appreciation Day, dress down in blue and white

• 1 - 31    Teacher Appreciation Day, early dismissal

 

In Religion we will:

Learn about important saints

Read and discuss bible stories

Continue understanding reconciliation

Discuss Jesus as the Holy Eucharist

Catholic School Week

 

In reading we will:

Learn how we express ourselves

Practice long U

Review the use of punctuation

Combine sentences with and, so , but, or

Continue to understand and identify main idea, author’s purpose

Use comparative endings er and est

Practice identifying expository texts

Review prefixes

Learn about ling verbs, helping verbs, past tense verbs, and irregular verbs

Use contractions

Learn what makes different parts of the world different from us

Practice blends wr, kn, gn, mb, sc

Use linking verbs is, are

Know the importance of rereading

Compare and contrast

Use suffixes

Review compound words

Learns how earth changes

Discuss er, ir, ur, or

Understand more about quotation marks

Use cause and effect scenarios

Identify text evidence

 

In math we will:

Learn about money

Learn about time

Penny, nickel, quarter, half-dollar, dollar

Making change

Adding and subtracting money

Analog and digital clocks

Hour, half hour, quarter hour

Minute hand

Hour hand

Half past

O’clock

Minutes before and after

Elapsed time

Reading a schedule

Estimating time

Calendars

Place value to 1000

Counting patterns

 

In Science we will:

Discuss Earth’s processes

Quick changes versus slow changes

How people change earth

Earthquakes

Floods

Landslides

Weathering

Erosion

Deposition

Dike

Levee 

Windbreaks

 

In Social Studies:

Learn about goods and services

Advertisements

Needs, wants, and choices

Food producers

planting/harvesting

producing/consuming

Drought

Climate