GRADE 2 NEWS

Mrs. Fogel 

Families...

It's time to celebrate Catholic School's Week at OLA!  A letter went home last week detailing the activities planned for the week. There are activities and events planned to illustrate the week's theme of "Faith, Academics, and Service."

Monday, January 30th.  An Animal World Experience. The children will enjoy learning about a variety of live animals. A dress down day.

Tuesday, January 31st.  Faith and Worship.Bishop McManus will celebrate Mass with us at 10:00 AM in the church. We invite all families and friends to join us for worship. Full Dress Uniform.

Wednesday, February 1st. Collaboration in Education. Second Grade will share a Reading Time activity with the Kindergarten class.

Thursday, February 2nd.  Sharing our work with our family. Open House

10:00-12:00.  Family Night 6:00-7:30 pm. I will provide a special treat for the children during the day.

Friday, February 3rd.  Helping our School. The children are asked to bring in a ream of copy paper to help our classroom. Children may wear OLA school spirit clothing.

(Navy Blue/White or OLA emblems) We will end the day with sundaes from our PO.

Classroom News...

We start off the month celebrating Catholic School's Week!  A detailed note went home last week about the week's activities. I have posted a brief listing above. The theme this year is  "Faith, Academics, and Service." The class did a wonderful job with their research projects on Penguins and Polar Bears!  These activities practiced their writing skills and they are excited to share them with you on Family Night.  The January Book Report Projects are wonderful.  The children enjoy sharing information about their characters and masks to the class.  We will start timed addition/subtraction fact tests this month.  The target fact family will be posted weekly in their Homework Notebook and the children should study those facts.  We have started to explore money and time in Math. Hands on activities will help the children with identifying and combining coins and making change.  Please continue to build your child's knowledge by practicing counting money and telling time at home.  The more the children practice, the more proficient they will become with both of these life skills. We have begun our unit on Forces and Motion in Science. The class will be working on class activities to explore push/pull and magnets. In Social Studies we will study our country's goverment. We will study the Works of Mercy in Religion and how we can incorporate them into our daily lives.  The childen are very excited to begin cursive this month.  We will start with strokes and then lower case letters.  I am proud of all their effort and and accomplishments.

-There will not be a book report project for February. The children will be expected to read for 15 minutes each night as part of their homework .

-We will celebrate Valentine's Day with a small party in school on Tuesday February 14th.  The children should only sign their names to their cards.  We will decorate bags in class,  I will send home a  donation note for juice boxes, paper goods, and a small treat.  If your child has a food allergies please send in a treat for your child.

Class Community Service Project...

Our class continue to collect dental supplies for a local food pantry.  The service project will culminate this month as we celebrate Dental Health Month. Thank you to those families who have sent in donations for this worthwhile project. Your generosity is a wonderful example to your children.

-We are low on tissues and baby wipes.  Any donations would be greatly appreciated.

Dates to remember:

February 2nd                   Family Night. 6:00-7:30

February 6th                   Early Dismissal. 11:00

February 14th                 Valentine's Day.

February 17th                 Jeans Day. $1.00

February 20th-24th        Winter Vacation Week 

The Second Graders Shine each day!

Mrs. Fogel

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