The Last Week of School Is Here!

 

Hello Second Grade Families,

The last week of the school year has arrived...and so, here's to making this last week together fun, special, and positively memorable!  Please know that we will be doing a lot of unique and engaging learning activities this week in order to keep the students learning in a more interesting and exciting way!

ELA

The students will be reading about space exploration for our final week of school.  The students will also   have space themed activities that coincides with what is being learned from our mini-space exploration readers.  This will be a cross curricular learning experience for your children.  The students will be applying their language arts skills while learning about space science content.

Math

The students will be wrapping up their lessons on data.  Our data lessons taught the students how to read and interpret graphs.  The students were also introduced to how to read and/or create a survey and then put the data into a graph.

 

Religion
  • The students will be attending our all school Mass on Wednessday, May 25th at 8:15 a.m. inside     St. Gabriel's Catholic Church.
  • The students will also be attending our school wide "Community Payer" at 8:10 on Friday morning (Our last day of school!)
  • The students will be learning that "Heaven is Our Home" utilizing our textbooks.

Homework

There will not be any homework for this final week of school!

Here are the Second Grade Specials:

Monday ~ Art at 12:10

Tuesday ~ Spanish at 12:30 p.m. P.E. at 1:45 p.m. 

Wednesday ~ Mass Day at 8:15 a.m. 

                        Spanish 9:40 and Music at 1:00

Thursday ~    P.E. at 1:45 p.m.

Friday ~  There are no specials on Friday!

Upcoming Events

  • May 26, Thursday:  Kinder promotion 1:45 pm followed by Kinder Reception in the Parish Hall.
  • May 27, Friday: Community Prayer 8:10 am, Student Awards Assembly 11 am in the Parish Hall.  Noon dismissal. No aftercare.  Final day of school year 2021-2022.

 

 

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