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Classroom News
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Happy February! We have finished our first second grade reader and have begun working in the second reader. The children are making good progress in reading this year! They are also doing a fantastic job with the A/R reading (enrichment) program. The entire class has reached the second level! Thank you for encouraging them at home! On Tuesday, February 7th Leah and Kathy from "Get it Straight" dental came to visit first and second grades for a fun presentation about dental health. I will post some cute photos from her visit to second grade in our photo gallery. (It may take a day or two, the photos have to be resized and loaded and it takes awhile to do). In math, we continue with addition, subtraction, fractions (one half, one third, one fourth, one sixth...), telling time to the hour and the half hour, counting dimes, nickels and pennies, word problems, and measurement. Our addition facts worksheets and assessments now contain 100 facts on each page! In Social studies we have begun a new unit about local, state and federal government. We are also working on our President reports- which will be presented to the other classes on February 10th. In Science, we are beginning a unit on the properties of matter. Congratulations to the second graders who has met my "healthy" snack challenge for November and December. Each day we tallied the number of healthy snacks that the children brought to school. During both of the months, they exceeded the 100 healthy snacks goal. In November they earned "Healthy Hero" bracelets and in December they received pedometers from Mr. K. Due to the childrens' enthusiasm, we will continue to keep track of our health snack choices! Thanks for your support! Some Special Dates to Remember... Friday, February 10 Second Grade presentations- Presidents Splash Night at Perinton Aquatic Ctr. 6:30 Tuesday, February 14 Valentine's Day- Classroom party Week of February 20 Winter Recess- No School Thursday, March 1 9:15am Mass (School Mass) Friday, March 2 Read Across America Day/Dr.Seuss' Birthday Week of 3-12 Lila the Leprechaun visits Friday, March 16 No School- Faculty retreat day Thursday, March 22 9:00 Living Stations of the Cross Wednesday, March 28 Technology Open House 6:30pm Book Fair Friday, March 30 K-2 Book Character Day/Presentations Tuesday, April 3 9:15 Mass (School Mass) Friday, April 6 Good Friday/Start of Spring Break Week of April 8 Spring Recess ***Save the date- Grades 2 and 3 will be going to the Genesee Country Museum for "19th Century Games" on Tuesday, May 29th. We will leave school at 9:10 and return about 2:30. Children will need to bring a brown bag lunch. ------- A Scholastic Book Club orders will be sent home about once a month. If you are interested in ordering, you may send you order and payment (check or money order made payable to Scholastic Book Clubs) to school or you may order online. Please let me know if the books are a gift for your child so that I will get them to you without your child knowing! (Order at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs ). Our class earns free books for our classroom with every order, and we receive extra credit for orders recieved online! Our classroom code is GRXJ Our "Specials Schedule" for this year: Mondays: Advocate class 1:25-1:45 Technology 1:50-2:35 Tuesdays: Library/Tech Lab 11:00-11:50 Music 2:05-2:30 Wednesdays: Health 9:00-9:30 Art 1:00-1:50 Thursdays: P.E. 10:45-11:30 Music 1:35-2:00 Fridays: P.E. 1:00-1:45 ***Lunch is from 12:05-12:35 each day *** Below is a list of our weekly spelling words. A copy of the list will be sent home in the Friday folder. We will be practicing the words in class. Each week (usually on Mondays) your child will bring home a list of the words to copy 3x each for homework. Please help your child to practice the spelling words at home each week. Homework for the night before the spelling test (usually Thursday night) will be to study for the spelling test. Challenge words are like "bonus" words. No points will be deducted from the test score if they are not spelled correctly. An additional point will be awarded for each challenge word spelled correctly. Please use only lower case letters for spelling words, unless otherwise noted. Thanks!
Spelling lists:
Unit 20 Test on Friday, February 10 one, two, six, ten, four, five, nine, three, seven, eight, eleven, twelve, thirteen Challenge words: eighteen, fifteen, fifty-nine, sixteen, twenty-four, thirty-two Unit 21 Test on Friday, February 17 boxes, glasses, dishes, foxes, wishes, birds, eggs, boats, boys, girls, bugs, cats, pants Challenge words: apples, benches, pies Unit 22 Test on Friday, March 2 walked, planted, asked, filled, needed, played, looking, talking, jumping, spelling, packing, packed, picked Challenge words: dashed, fishing, sleeping Unit 23 Test on Friday, March 9 too, noon, root, boot, food, wood, took, good, book, wool, soon, moon, room Challenge words: barefoot, choose, goose Unit 24
Review Unit
Test on Thursday, March 15 train, slow, drive, please, tree one, two, three, eight, four dishes, boxes, boys, girls, birds played, needed, asked, talking looking noon, food, good, took, too Click here to return to St. John Neumann School's Webpage.http://schools.dor.org/stjohnneumann/ Thanks for visiting our webpage! Ms. Routly and class
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