MAY - 201305/01/2013 Important Dates:May 2 Our Boxtop Reward afternoon May 4 May Procession in Church May 16 Second Grade Field Trip to York May 17 Second Grade Class Mass May 27 Memorial Day Holiday MAY MESSAGE May is the month to honor Mary our Mother and Mother of the Church. In our classroom, we will be crowning the Statue of Our Lady everyday. We as a school will also say a decade of the Rosary each day for morning prayers. We will all gather to have a living Rosary in May to foster devotion to Mary. **** Our second grade class received a flag from Finley Miller's Uncle Greg that was flown on Missions over Afghanistan. What an honor for us. It will be placed in a case at school with the official citation. we pray for his platoon everyday and have made and sent prayer cards. Curriculum Update and Information Reading comprehension is much more difficult this trimester. There will often be headings within the story,and captions with information; There will be more cause/effect and inference skills. Children will be asked to write responses for given literature. We will be gathering information from varied resources. The students will be reviewing all Robust vocabulary words too. * We are done our Dibels Testing. Please review the addition and subtraction facts up to 18. We will be working on a Math Review booklet that has a variety of skills that need to be reviewed. We all finished our Math Assessment Test. We enjoyed our BOXTOP winnings afternoon on Thursday, MAY 2nd Movie, popcorn, and drink were provided. Also, our class will be going on our Field Trip to the Industrial Museum in York, Pa. It is an opportunity for children to go back in time and see how people lived and what they experienced in everyday life. Looking forward to this big day. We can take pictures inside the Museum. Click here t edit. Homework for week of May 12th-17thReligion: Class Mass/ Glossary Review Math: Mixed Review and 2 step word problems Reading: Red Book Pages/ Summary and comprehension Reviews of stories Saxon: Review: Coding longer words/ Phonics Rules Spelling: Sparkle Spelling Games Grammar: Proof reading Skills April Birthdays May 2 Karissa May10 Finley May 12 Rachel May 13 Isaac May 17 Liam May CURRICULUM RELIGION- Mary/Rosary/May Devotionss MATH- Review of math skills taught thus far. Measurement/money/time/ord problemss READING-References for information/Red Book Skills Cause and Effect, Inference/Robust Vocabulary Review PHONICS- All phonics Combinations /Multi syllable words Alphabetical Order-second letter GRAMMAR- Proof Reading Skills SPELLING- Review of mixed Spelling Rules WRITING-Written reading responses/summaries SCIENCE-Inventions / Going back in TIME SOCIAL STUDIES- Famous State Landmarks/ Where relatives live?
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