LANGUAGE ARTS: This week we read an informational text called Who Are Government's Leaders and watched/discussed a video called Thomas Edison and the Light Bulb. We worked on skills such as identifying homophones (words that sound the same, but they're not spelled the same and do not mean the same such as "sea" and "see,") decoding words with the suffixes "ful" and "less," writing abbreviations for months, days, places, and titles for people correctly, identifying nouns that name people, using story vocabulary in context, and learning ten new high-frequency words.
GUIDANCE: Tomorrow, January 19, second graders will begin lesson one in guidance class. Guidance goes along with our religion series and focuses on family, friendships, and God's love. There are ten lessons in the guidance book. We will discuss a new lesson each Friday.
MATH: This week we solved problems with dollar bills and coins. Students also found different ways to make the same total value when counting coins.
FIELD TRIP: Since we have been learning about money in math class, second graders will be taking a field trip to Iowa State Savings Bank to learn more about financial literacy. Please look in today's take home folder for the permission slip to fill out so your child may attend.
HANDWRITING: Second graders are beginning cursive handwriting! Before learning how to write our lowercase cursive letters, students have been learning the strokes used in cursive handwriting (undercurve, downcurve, overcurve, slant, and checkstroke.) We have also discussed keys to legibility such as the shape, size, spacing, and slant of our cursive letters.
SPIRIT DAY: Tomorrow, January 19 is a Spirit Day at St. Malachy. Students can pay $1.00 to wear sweat pants to school if they wish. The money raised will help those in need in our local community.
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