Mrs. O'Hagan - Grade 2

April has passed in a blink and we are in the home stretch! I hope that you all had time to enjoy the beautiful weather of the past two weeks during our school vacation. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of you for your generous support of out lenten collections and also for the many thoughtful, kind and generous expressions of well wishes for my birthday. Thanks to Mrs. Hemeon and your children, it will be one that I will never forget!!!. Here we are with May quickly approaching...so little time left and so much to do!

Important Reminders

FIRST COMMUNION REHEARSAL - Tues. May 8th 4:00-5:30 (readers and gift bears 3:30 - 5:30) Please make every effort to have your child be at church on time. While it was stated at the meeting that parents do not need to be present for the rehearsal, I would recommend that at least one parent stay, if arrangements can be made for the care of siblings. We have found that it helps to prevent confusion and anxiety on the actual day of the sacrament if the parents are aware of the logistics of the day's events.

Recycling Helpers:
Noelle April 26th
Rebecca May 4th
Claire May 11th
Owen May 18th
Gianpaolo May 25th
Julia June1st

Progress Reports Sent Home - April 30th

This is what we have planned for the coming weeks...

Language

In reading, We will continue to practice and develop oral reading skills with a focus on pacing and expression. We will review comprehension skills including cause and effect, fact and opinion, and main idea and details.

In writing, students will continue to work on developing their descriptive writing skills using adjectives and adverbs. We will introduce persuasive writing. We will also continue to reinforce editing and revising skills
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In spelling, we will continue to practice and apply rules for word endings and plurals. We will be focusing on the following spelling patterns: tion, ture, suffixes, prefixes, and contractions. Students should be checking and correcting priority words, and identifying spelling challenge words by circling them in all written assignments.

Vocabulary skills will focus on multiple-meaning words, homophones, and compound words.

Math
Students will continue working on their computation speed with timed drills. Subtraction facts will be practiced daily. Other areas of focus will include working with tangrams, writing money amounts using symbols,rounding to nearest 10 and estimating. Computations skills will be practiced and applied to solve word problems.

Religion
The second graders have been fully immersed in their study of the Mass. We will continue to study scripture, and to practice the responses and prayers in preparation for First Eucharist.

Science

We will be concluding our unit on matter and beginning our final unit on weather, starting with the water cycle. The students will be learn to identify weather instruments and their importance in predicting the weather. We will compare weather and climate. The students will research weather extremes and their hazardous effects. We will also discuss weather safety issues. Mr. Anderson's final visit this year will be on May 4th when he will share the science of bubbles with our second graders. We can't wait!

SOCIAL STUDIES -Please visit Mrs. Hemeon's web page for details!

SAVE THE DATES...

First Eucharist Celebrations:
Mrs. Hemeon's Class 205 - May 5th @10:00
Mrs. O'Hagan's Class 206 - May 12th @10:00

Think Spring!

Mrs. O'Hagan - Grade 2

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