Second Grade Update

Dear Second Grade Families, Your wonderful children and I enjoyed a great second full week of school! They were reverent and joyful as we experienced our first All School Mass together, enthusiastic during Garden lessons with Ms. Kristen, thoughtful as we created art to decorate the church in honor of first responders, and motivated as we started Accelerated Reader and dove into our first reading log entries! Thank you for supporting them in bringing their 4×6 covers for their reflection logs. It was illuminating to see what images they chose to inspire them! 🙂

• Food Drive This week on Wednesday, the Executive Director of the Alameda Food Bank will visit SPN to kick of our food drive! Please join us for morning ceremony if you can! 🙂 Also, you will be receiving a flyer with more details in this week’s family envelope. Many of your children were so enthusiastic about our drive that they asked if they could have extra copies of the flyer to share with family friends and neighbors! They also wanted to create posters for our school! So awesome of them!

• What We Are Learning

• • English Language Arts
    • Word Work – identifying and spelling sh/ch/tch words, using and spelling pronouns, recognizing and forming possessive nouns
    • Reading – introducing our SUPER magazine and small-group reading practice
    • Writing – practicing letter writing and editing with get-to-know-me letters
  • Math – using story problems to reinforce number facts to 20, exploring odd/even numbers
  • Social Studies – exploring our families and traditions
  • Science – making observations and developing scientific questions, exploring the power of water with respect to Earth’s landforms
  • Religion – exploring how God invite us to know him and believe in him

• Important Dates/Events This Week
  • Wednesday, Sept. 11th – Visit from Alameda Food Bank; Food Drive Kick Off! (9/11-9/30)
  • Friday, Sept. 19th – Free dress with Fun Fair T-Shirt
  • Friday, Sept. 20th – No School / No Share and Care (Staff Training Day)
  • Saturday, Sept. 21st – Fun Fair!
  • Monday, Sept. 23rd – Free dress for September birthdays

With gratitude, Catherine Suer