Hello Spring!

Hello Second Grade Families,
Welcome to the season of Spring!  The season when plants grow, flowers bloom, and the weather is just perfect for outdoor activities.  It's also the season when we all look forward to Spring Break and the celebration of Easter!  Easter is late this year, and so, I'm going to need your help in assisting the students with staying focused in our classroom learning activities.  I will be giving my best effort in creating some new and exciting hands on activities to keep the kids engaged in the second grade, as we navigate through the next four weeks together.  Thank you for your partnership and here's to a beautiful Spring season.  Please continue reading to discover all that will be taking place this week in the second grade and right here at ACS.

 ELA (Strong Communicators)
The second grade students will be stepping outside of their Journey's lessons this week in order to prepare for our upcoming ITBS testing that begins next week on April 2nd.  Instead, the students will be taking a series of ITBS practice tests to prepare them for next week's tests.  However, the students will review and focus on skills previously taught from other Journey's lessons.  This means that the students will not have a Spelling test for this week.

 Math (Resourceful Learners)
The students will continue their learning in Unit 7.  This unit focuses on money and time concepts.
In class, the second graders will continue their math "sprints" to assist them in the skill of "automaticity" with their basic addition and subtraction facts.    Don't forget that there are many free options online to assist your child in memorizing their basic subtraction facts. 

Religion (Active Christians)
The students will continue learning the following religious concept utilizing the Jesus Our Life religion series.
  • Making up for our offenses
The students will also have a "Theology of the Body" lesson which focuses on the gift of being a human person.  This lesson will further relay to the children, that their body language reflects their behavior choices.  It also promotes the ideal that how we choose to behave affects others, and being that God created us to be a gift, not only to ourselves, but to others, and so it is important to be a person that exhibits self control.  Self Control is also a fruit of the spirit and those fruits allow us to be a person for others.  

 The students will attend and will lead our all school Community Prayer on March 26th, at 8:10 am.
The students will attend our all school Mass on Friday, March 29th.  
The students will attend our all school Stations of the Cross on March 29th.

 Science
The students will begin their lessons on plants and their life cycles. We are going to have so much fun learning all about plants!


Updates
        All School Mass
  Mar 24 2019 at 08:30 AM
  Next Generation of Generosity Dinner
  Mar 30 2019 at 05:30 AM
  ITBS Testing begins grades 2 - 8
  Apr 02 2019 at 08:00 AM
  Mother Son Event

  Apr 06 2019 at 01:00 PM

 Homework
The students are required to read nightly and log their reading utilizing their reading log.  
All of the reading logs are due on Friday.
There is no Spelling homework for this week!
Stay tuned next week, because your children are going to have a very unique homework assignment that will require them to read about a famous scientist each night at home.  I have a book for every single child in the class and will provide the books to your child the week of April 2nd!

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