2nd Grade
Week of February 17th
2024-2025
Famous American Project
Your child will be assigned a Famous American for the research that they will begin at home starting February 7th. Your child will be given a book from the library to use for the research. They will also be given a graphic organizer to write down important information. Your child will need to create a poster with important facts about their Famous American. The poster should include pictures and all the important information from their graphic organizer. Here is a template for what your poster should look like. The graphic organizer should come back when the project is turned in. The poster should be half the size of a big poster board.The project will be due on Monday March 3rd!
Tidbits:
Next week and for the rest of the cold weather season, on cold days, if your daughter would like to bring in a pair of sweatpants to wear during outdoor recess, she may. They should be easy to pull on and wear under their skirt/skort. We are not sending the girls to the bathroom to take off/ put on sweatpants.
Charlotte’s Web:
On Friday(2/14) we will send the book home for the kiddos to read 2 chapters and answer comprehension questions! This assignment will be due the following Friday(2/21)!
Now is the time to get your students reading! When they complete the program by reading four (4) books either inside or outside of the classroom, they will receive two (2) free tickets to our reading night at a Chesapeake Baysox game this upcoming season. Currently scheduled for Sunday, April 13th at 1:05pm.
Additional tickets will be available to be purchased for family members.
Mentor Sentences: Parts of Speech video
House System-Wednesday, February 19th is our next house meeting. Students must wear the color of their house. Students who have PE must wear sneakers. Please refer to the Parent/Student Handbook for out-of-uniform guidelines.
Outerwear
Please send in a labeled jacket/hat/gloves with your kiddos
Lunch
Students will eat lunch at 12:06. Recess is 11:42.
Friendly reminder: SOTI is a peanut free school so lunch items should not include any peanut products.
Spirit Wear store is always open!! The new Spirit Wear store will stay open year round. Items may change based on the season or special events. These items will be shipped directly to your home. https://chesapeakedistribution.com/collections/school-of-the-incarnation
Looking Ahead
Language Arts: Starting Unit 9 in Fundations
Unit 9 is a 2 week unit that focuses on r-controlled vowels, focusing on er, ir, and ur.
These are the words to focus on:
dirty, chapter, sturdy, corner, termite, cursive, third, term, returned, church
Trick words:
learn, earth, picture, father, brother, mother
Mentor Sentences: Skills we have learned thus far.
Parts of Speech video
Math: Ch. 6-3 Digit Addition-celebration 2/20.
Social Studies:Black History Month/text features
Religion: Blessed Books
Homework
language Arts:Practice Fundations Skills-Read Aloud for 15 minutes each night
Math:Practice addition and math facts each night
The amount of homework required DEPENDS on your child's Math class-not homeroom!!
Ms. Mautino's Math class does the odd problems on odd days and the even numbers on even days on the front page.
Mrs. Shallow's Math class does the whole front page-back page is optional.
Ms. s.'s Math class does the front and back of the page.
Monday:
Ms. Mautino -
Mrs. Shallow -Pg
Ms. S.-Pgs.
Tuesday -
Ms. Mautino -Pg.
Mrs. Shallow -Pg.
Ms. S.-Pgs.
Wednesday -
Ms. Mautino-pg. 419-evens
Mrs. Shallow-pg. 419
Ms. S.-Pgs. 419 & 420
Thursday:
Ms. Mautino-Pg.
Mrs. Shallow-Pg.
Ms. S.-Pgs.
Calendar
Calendar:
Monday, February 17th; School Closed - Presidents’ Day
Wednesday, Feb. 19th: House Meeting Day - students may wear their house color
Friday, February 21st: Spirit Wear Day
Saturday, February 22nd: Wine, Food & Brew 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Friday, February 28th: Remote Day for students -End of Trimester 2
Wednesday, March 5th: School Mass 10:00 AM
Friday, March 7th: Spirit Wear Day Faculty vs. Students Basketball Game at Spalding HS
Saturday, March 8th: PAC Irish Fest 12:00 - 4:00 PM - more info to follow!
Tuesday, March 11th: Class pictures and 8th Grade Panoramic Picture Day
Wednesday, March 12th: Class Picture Day
Thursday, March 13th: Spring Club Picture Day
Fundations Tapping
To do this the students tap their fingers on their thumb for each sound they hear in a word . For example’”ship”-they would do 3 taps for the 3 sounds(sh-i-p). They would then curl their fingers and say the word-ship.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Ms. Amy Mautino(amautino@schooloftheincarnation.org)
Mrs. Audra Ruyter(aruyter@schooloftheincarnation.org)
Ms. Jordan Sdanowich(jsdanowich@schooloftheincarnation.org)
Mrs. Eileen Granzow: egranzow@schooloftheincarnation.org
Mrs. Natalie Shallow(nshallow@schooloftheincarnation.org)
Ms. Rachael Price(rprice@schooloftheincarnation.org)
FUN TIMES IN 2ND GRADE
