Dear Parents and Guardians,

Before I begin, I just wanted to say a very Happy Mother’s Day! Thank you for all that you do! Also, Happy Nurses Week and Teachers Appreciation Week to all the other teachers and to our nurses! We had another productive week here in second grade! In math, we began adding three- digit numbers! We began by learning how to add 10 and 100 to three- digit numbers to see how it could/ would affect the place value of three digit numbers added together. We then began adding our three digit numbers on an open number line! Just like with 2-digit numbers, we add from greatest place value to least. So, jumps would begin with hundreds, then tens, then ones. Lastly, we learned how to add three- digit numbers using models! We used base ten blocks and mats to help us draw out our three-digit numbers and then count them together to see the final sum. In reading, we finished our unit on reading strategies and literary language! We then were introduced to our new reading unit, book series! For this reading unit, students were placed into book clubs, and will read books in that series. While doing so, they will discuss parts of the book more in depth. For example, the characters across the series, the setting, the problem, solution, and endings. They will then read another book in the same series and compare the things listed above to the other book in the series and see how the series compares and contrasts. The book series your students are reading are A to Z Mysteries, The Bailey School Kids, Black Lagoon Adventures, Horrible Harry, and Henry and Mudge. In writing, we continued writing poetry for our poetry unit. This week we focused on how to put our powerful thoughts and feelings into our poetry, read them, which eventually will lead them to write a poem about the object. We also began writing poems about feelings. We used descriptive words that allowed the students to visualize what the student sharing was saying in their poem. For example, one of our students shared that being mad felt like being on fire from head to toe. We also learned how to edit poetry this week. We went through our poems and read them in our heads to see if they sounded right, and applied words that we know how to spell, were spelled correctly. Lastly, we wrote all about our week in our Nothing Books. In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities.  In religion this week, our youth minister, Dan came in and continued talking about obeying God and our elders. We also continued talking about the special seasons and lessons. In addition, we learned about the biblical stories of David’s Mighty Men, The Lost Sheep, as well as Selecting a New King. In science, we continued to learn about erosion by reading and answering questions about it. We also got to play an online game on National Geographic that showed us what happens when erosion occurs, and some things we could do, to slow it down. We also began to learn about earthquakes, and how they come to be! Lastly, we completed a top secret Mother’s Day Project!

Reminders:

• 5/7: Mother- Son Magic Night on the Green @ 6:00pm
• 5/11: Grades 1-5 Spring Concert on the Green @ 1:15pm
• 5/13: Ascension Day – School Mass for Grades K-8. Dress uniforms required.

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Dear Parents and Guardians, 

We had another productive week here in second grade! In math, we learned how to compare numbers by looking at both numbers hundreds, tens, and ones places. We learned that when we compare numbers, we always begin with the biggest place value, and work our way down to the smallest if need be. We dove even further into comparing three-digit numbers by using a number line to help us visualize what number is greater than, less than, or equal to another. Lastly, we worked on problem solving using three-digit place value. In reading, we learned about even more literary language! This week we discussed hyperboles which describes something in an exaggerated ways. We also discussed personification, which is when you give nonhuman items human characteristics or qualities. Lastly, we began to discuss alliteration which are phrases or sentences that all start with the same letter or sound. We also talked about different strategies that can help us when reading our independent reading books. One of those strategies was writing. Writing can be a tool to help us stay on track when reading. We also focused on describing parts of our chapters by describing their beginning, middle, and ending, and how they lead to the next chapter. In addition, we learned about how to set goals for ourselves when reading. These goals could be as simple as saying “I want to read at least two chapters during independent reading.” Lastly, we looked ahead at our new unit, which is book clubs, and discussed what a book club is, and how we are going to create our own book clubs. In writing, we jumped right into our poetry unit. We learned about line breaks, what they are, and how we can use them in our own poems. We also discussed how to put our powerful thoughts and feelings into our poetry, read them, which eventually will lead them to write a poem about the object. Lastly, we wrote all about our week in our Nothing Books. In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities to get ready for our spelling test on Wednesday. I must say, we did a great job on them! Then, we got our new spelling sorts, and began using spelling activities to begin helping us practice spelling those words.  In religion this week, our youth minister, Dan came in and talked about obeying God and our elders. He practiced this with your students by playing Simon Says. We also talked about the special seasons and lessons. In addition, we learned about the biblical stories of God’s Promise to David, The Death of Jesus, as well as David and Bathsheba. In science, we talked about the many ways the Earth changes, and why it does so. We continued to learn about the Earth’s crust, mantle inner core, and outer core. Then, we discussed how they used to view the Earth and how they now view the Earth after learning more about it. In addition, we read about how rocks change and learned all about erosion. 

Parents:
I just wanted to give you a heads up in advance just in case you may be seeing this at home.  At my previous school, third grade was upstairs as well and I notice that as third grade creeps up, students become a little anxious about leaving the floor they have known for so many years. Sometimes their attitude begins to shift because they begin to get nervous about moving to a new grade on a new floor. I haven’t seen anything yet, but I have overheard some students discussing next year and their feelings toward going upstairs. As always if anything serious happens, I will keep you in the loop about your student.

Reminders:

• 5/1: 25th Annual Auction 
• 5/5: Spring Flower Delivery 
• 5/7: Mother- Son Magic Night on the Green
• 5/11: Grades 1-5 Spring Concert on the Green @ 1:15pm

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Dear Parents and Guardians,

We had a great week back after our Spring Break! In math, we continued to learn how to name the same number in different ways. For example, drawing a model in different ways using base ten blocks. We also looked deeper into our hundreds, tens, and ones places and looked at the patterns of those with different three-digit numbers. Lastly, we learned how to skip count by 5’s, 10’s, 100’s to 1,000’s. In reading, we continued to discuss how to hold on to different types of books/ texts when they are long and may be difficult. We also exchanged our independent reading books and put a chapter of our independent reading book in order of events. In addition, we learned how to stay on track while reading, when books become more difficult to read. Lastly, we discussed how writing can be a tool to help us stay on track when reading. In writing, we finished up editing our opinion writing pieces, and wrote our final drafts of our favorite opinion pieces. We also took our opinion writing post assessment to show how much we’ve grown over the unit. We also began our new unit which is poetry! We began our unit by having students look at everyday objects and describe them, which eventually will leave them to write a poem about the object. Lastly, we wrote all about our week in our Nothing Books. In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities to get ready for our spelling test next Wednesday 4/28. In religion this week, we talked about how the church celebrated God’s love. In addition, we learned about the biblical stories of David and Saul, The Story of Paul, as well as Moving the Ark to Jerusalem. In science, we talked about the many ways the Earth changes, and why it does so. We learned about the Earth’s crust and mantle. Then, we discussed how they used to view the Earth and how they now view the Earth after learning more about it. Lastly, we read about how rocks change. 

Parents:
Just so you are aware, the Travel Fair will be in the gym from 4/26- 4/28. With that being said, students will be eating their lunches in the classroom. We ask that you please do not provide any lunches that include nuts or nut products due to allergies. In addition, students will also be given their next spelling test on Wednesday 4/28.

Reminders:

• 4/24: Spring Tours of Saint Paul School for prospective students 10:00AM-12:00PM
• 4/26–4/28: Travel Faire in the gym
• 5/1: 25th Annual Auction 

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Dear Parents and Guardians,

We enjoyed a full week here in second grade before our spring break! In math, we continued to learn more and practice place values of three- digit numbers. This week, we learned how to name the place value of three- digit numbers, for example, the hundreds, tens, and ones places. We also learned how to read and write three- digit numbers. When learning this, just like with two- digit numbers, we read the numbers and wrote them in standard form, expanded form, word form, as well as base ten form. Lastly, we continued to practice these skills when learning how to name the same number in different ways. In reading, we finished up our portion of the unit on literary language. We wrapped it up by discussing metaphors as well as idioms. We read The Cat's Pajamas, There’s a Frog in my Throat, as well as My School's a Zoo and Pigsty as model texts to discuss the literary language. We then discussed what a routine for a book group is and how the routine for our personal book groups should look during reading. Lastly, we discussed how to hold on to different types of books/ texts when they are long and may be difficult. In writing, we finished up any unfinished opinion pieces in our writers folders and then received our opinion editing checklist, and began editing these pieces. Students made sure that they clearly stated their opinion, had three reasons, three examples to support those reasons, had an ending, had superstar sentences that began with a capital letter, and ended with some type of punctuation. Once students edited a few of their opinion pieces, they were able to meet with me, and begin rewriting their final drafts. Lastly, we wrote about our week in our Nothing Books. In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities. In religion this week, we talked about how the church celebrated God’s love. In addition, we learned about the biblical stories of David and Goliath, Jesus’ Teachings, as well as David and Jonathan. In social studies we read about festivals. Students got very interested in the Chinese Dragon Festival! We created and drew our own Chinese Dragons for the festival, and then wrote all about them. In science, we conducted a globe activity that allowed us to test how many times we would land on water versus land to prove that we land on water on a globe more because there is more water on Earth than land. In addition, we looked at different water forms and answered questions about them based upon what we saw. We then moved onto land and looked at the different landforms and answered questions again, based upon what we saw. 

Parents:
We discussed a lot about what is expected of our students this week, especially as the year comes to a close and they move on to be third graders. One of the things that came into play this week was friendship. As you know, a lot of our students have known each other for a long time now, or have become such great friends that it seems as though they have been friends for years. As I have been noticing, it seems as though students have become very cliquey, and have not been letting other students join them when asked to play their games. We had a class discussion about what it means to be a friend and how we show we are friends with one another. We discussed that we are a second grade family, and although we may not all get along all the time, we all need to be nice, respectful, and let one another play when we are asked. In addition to this, we also had a discussion about respecting other adults when they come into our classroom to teach us. It was brought to my attention by our specials teachers that we have been rude and disrespectful the past few specials times. I told the students that their specials teachers are just as important as me teaching them. Our specials teachers voiced to me that they will not be tolerating the behavior, and students who still do not follow their rules will be asked to sit and complete work in the main office. This will take effect after we return from spring break. If you have any questions regarding the matter, please contact specials teachers. 

Reminders:

• 4/12- 4/16: Spring Break (No School)
• 4/19: Spring Uniforms Begin
• 4/21: Spring Photo Day (Only if you would like them)
• 4/22: Mass for Grades 1 and 2 Dress Uniforms Required 

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Have a nice spring break, 
Tiana Mappa

We had a hard working and busy week in second grade. In math, we began our new unit! Our new unit is three- digit numbers! We begin this unit with three- digit place value to familiarize students with the hundreds, tens, and ones places. With this being said, we began by learning about the hundreds place. We then learned how to use base ten blocks to model the hundreds, tens, and ones places. To reinforce this, we also made a spring place value caterpillars to display in our classroom. In reading, we discussed how authors play with words to reinforce literary language. We also discussed and reviewed the other types of literary language that have not been discussed. Lastly, we completed the 4 W’s Worksheet, that allowed students to read their independent reading books and answer the who, what, when, where questions about their particular book. In writing this week, we continued to put everything we learned from introductions, reasons, examples, and endings to begin writing full opinion pieces of our own about anything we feel strongly about. Lastly, we wrote about our week in our Nothing Books.  In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities. In religion this week, our Youth Minister, Dan, came in and discussed different reasons why we pray and completed an egg activity with the class as well. We also talked about how Mary, Mother of the Church, cares for us. In addition, we learned about the biblical stories of David Chosen to be King as well as The Story of Easter by Alice Davidson. In social studies we continued learning about Women’s History Month by learning about more women who have made an impact around the world. We also picked our favorite woman that we have learned about, and completed a Women’s History Write Up. Lastly, we also read all about the history of Easter and answered questions about everything we learned. 

Reminders:

• 4/5: School Wide Dress Down Day
• 4/5: Mother’s Day Plant Sale

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Dear Parents and Guardians, 

Happy Spring! What a great week it's been here in second grade! In math this week we wrapped up time by learning about A.M. and P.M. When discussing A.M. and P.M. we thought about our day and when we do things. For example, if we eat breakfast at 7:30 would it be A.M. or P.M.? We then had two days to review before our test today. On Wednesday, we completed telling time, along with counting change, and dollars and change rotations. Thursday, we completed a whole class review using a format which is set up exactly like today’s test. Finally, today, we took our money and time assessment. In reading, we learned all about literary language and how and when authors use it in texts. We also completed a beginning, middle, and end worksheet that had students read either their storybook or a chapter in a book and identify what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of it. We also began to discuss comparisons and understanding what it means when authors use them. In writing this week, we continued to learn how to write strong endings to our opinion pieces to remind our reader why this opinion is important. We also wrote an opinion piece on our favorite sport. Students could either pick a sport and describe using three reasons and three examples why the sport was their favorite, or they could have picked two sports and came up with three reasons and examples as to why one sport was better than the other. We also learned how to put everything we learned from introductions, reasons, examples, and endings to begin writing full opinion pieces of our own about anything we feel strongly about. Lastly, we wrote about our weeks in our Nothing Books.  In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities. We also wrapped up our spelling sorts by taking our spelling test today. Monday, students will be given brand new spelling sorts to work with. In religion this week, our Youth Minister, Dan, came in and discussed different reasons why we pray. We also talked about how and why we receive the bread of life, as well as how we share God’s love with others. In addition, we learned about the biblical stories of Sal Selected to be King and Saul Disobeys God. In social studies we continued learning about Women’s History Month by learning about Misty Copeland, Dian Fossey, Audrey Hepburn, and Oprah Winfrey. 

Reminders:

• 3/30: Butter Braid Pick- Up
• 4/2: No School- Good Friday
• 4/5: Mother’s Day Plant Sale

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Dear Parents and Guardians, 

I just want to start off by thanking you so much for being so flexible when moving to remote learning. I know remote learning is not easy, but I thank you for getting your students, prepared and onto Zoom to learn! WIth that being said, I am so excited to be back in the classroom! In math this week, we learned how to tell time to the hour and half hour. We also learned different ways to name these times. For example, for 12:30, students could also say “half past 12 o’clock.” We also celebrated St. Patrick's Day by reviewing 2-digit addition, subtraction, counting money, and telling time to the nearest 5 minutes. In addition, we will be having our math test next Friday, 3/26. We are still going to be learning about telling time using A.M. and P.M. and will also review for two days. One of those review days we will be completing the review packet that goes home with the students before the test to help them study. In reading, we continued to learn and answer questions about fossils. In addition, we read all about St. Patrick’s Day, which told us all about the holiday, and why we celebrate it. We also learned about reading at a just right pace, what it looks like, and how it helps us understand what we read. To help us practice this, we read about penguins, and answered comprehension questions from the reading. In writing, we continued to work on our opinion pieces. We wrote about our favorite holidays and favorite seasons. We made sure that we clearly stated what our opinions were for these prompts, and gave three reasons, with three supporting examples to support those reasons. We also wrote a fun opinion piece to go with our St. Patrick’s Day theme on whether we thought Leprechauns are real or not with three reasons, and examples as to why we think they are or are not real. We also learned how to write strong endings to our opinion pieces to remind our reader why this opinion is important.  In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities. Next Friday 3/26, we will be having our spelling test. Just as I did in the past, I will send students home with their spelling activities that have all of their spelling words on them, to study with the night before. Their spelling words are also still listed on Google Classroom if they are needed/ wanted to study with at home. In religion this week, we talked about how and why we receive the bread of life, as well as how we share God’s love with others. We also learned about the biblical stories of The Birth of Samuel and The Ark of the Covenant. In social studies we continued learning about Women’s History Month by learning about Sally Ride and about Selena Quintanilla. 

Parents:
Just like for Trimester 1, (if you have not done so already) we ask that you sign report card envelopes on the Term 2 line, and have your student return it to school. Thank you so much in advance. 

Reminders:

• 3/23: Early Dismissal- 2nd Grade dismisses at 12:15pm
• 3/24: Class Pictures- Dress Uniforms Required 

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Good Morning Parents and Guardians, 

We had another successful week learning in second grade. This week in math, we continued to learn about money, and different skills and strategies to count money. We learned how to solve problems using dollar bills, word problems with dollar bills, and counting money with bills and coins. In addition, we also learned how when there are dollars and coins combined in an amount, we only represent that using a “$” and a decimal as in “$5. 73”. Lastly, we know that when solving problems with money, we have to use reasoning when we get an answer. For example, if we are solving a word problem, and we are spending money, and need change back, it would not make sense for us to add what we are paying to what we get back. In reading this week, we worked on what dialogue can look like in a book. For example, quotation marks can be used, ___ said, said ___, and ____ hollered are all ways we looked at when looking at different forms of dialogue. This week, we also spent time working on our fluency when reading. We learned that the pace, tone, and accuracy of how we read plays a major role in if we will understand what we are reading. For example, if we are reading way too fast, just to try and get through as many pages as we can, it is not likely we will be able to give a lot of detail about the pages we have read. In addition, we switched out our independent reading books in our classroom library and got a chance to catch up on any reading worksheets we have not finished in our reading folder. We also celebrated Read Across America Day by dressing up as book characters and discussing those characters and books they are from in detail. In writing this week, we learned how when we write opinion pieces to persuade our readers of our opinion, we have to provide evidence. We practiced this by using an OREO Organizer. OREO does stand for milk's favorite cookie, but it also helped students remember the order to write opinion pieces. This order is state the opinion, give reasons, give examples for those reasons, and restate your opinion. We also focused on what our examples should look like in an opinion piece. Examples have to be strong, and directly connect to the reason that it supports. If it does not, then a reader may not see why the writer's opinion is valid. Lastly, we got brand new Nothing Books for the month of March, and wrote about our week.  In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities to prepare for our spelling test on Tuesday. Then, we took our spelling test, and got brand new spelling sorts.  In religion, our youth minister Dan came in and discussed how community plays a major role in our lives. We also learned about the biblical stories of Samson and Delilah and Ruth.  In addition, we learned about how we as Catholics know and understand why Jesus offers himself to us. Lastly, we read about the Story of Ruth and Naomi. In science, we discussed where water is found on Earth by identifying it on a map, and coloring a map of land and water of our own. We also discussed what we noticed and then learned from the land and water map activity, and played a game to show all that we have learned about water and land on Earth thus far. 

Parents:
Report cards are going home today. If you have any questions about your students grades you can always email me, or talk to me at pick up next week! Just like for Trimester 1, we ask that you hold on to the report card, look at it, and then sign the envelope it came in on the Term 2 line, and have your student return it to school next week. Thank you so much in advance. 

Reminders:

• Easter Butterbraid Fundraiser happening until Monday 3/15
• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Dear Parents and Guardians,

We finally got an uninterrupted full week of school in! We were able to finally begin all of our new units for math, reading, and writing. In math this week, we identified different coins and their values. To help students memorize these coins and their values, we created a Money Flip Book. We also began counting different coins together to come up with a value. The coins we are currently working with are dollar coins, half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. Next week, we will begin incorporating bills into our money unit along with our change to come up with totals. In reading, we began our new unit. This unit gives students even more strategies to apply as they are reading because at this point in the year, they have grown so much as readers and come into contact with less pictures and  bigger words. One thing we discussed this week was our reading voices. Reading voices give us the opportunity to understand what we are reading. By doing so, we need to make sure whether we are reading in our heads or out loud, that our voices are loud, strong and clear. We also need to make sure we yield to punctuation, and change our voice according to what that punctuation is. For example, if there is a comma, we need to make sure we take a slight pause. In addition to reading voices, we also learned that when we are reading these bigger books, we scoop up our words. This means we are trying not to read just one word at a time, but fluently through our sentences. We also talked about character traits and how to describe them for characters in our own independent reading books by using evidence. In writing, we took our pre assessment for our new opinion writing unit. This allows me to see what students already know about opinion writing, and where I can begin instruction. After looking at these pre assessments, I began instruction by discussing what opinion writing is. We then discussed that in opinion writing we begin by stating what our opinion is, and coming up with three reasons and examples for those reasons to back up our claims for that opinion. To put this more into perspective, we worked on a worksheet that had students decide whether sentences were reasons or examples and had them sort them accordingly. We also began to brainstorm our own opinion topics with reasons and examples, and began writing those. In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities to prepare for our spelling test on Tuesday. In religion, our youth minister Dan came in and did a science experiment with us. We also learned about the biblical stories of Gideon the Judge and Samson's Riddle. In addition, we learned about how we as Catholics prepare our gifts to God. Lastly, we read about the Story of Joshua.

Reminders:

• Easter Butterbraid Fundraiser Begins Monday 3/1
• Read Across America Day (Dress up as your favorite book character) Tuesday, 3/2
• Trimester 2 Ends Tuesday 3/2

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays. 

Dear Parents and Guardians, 

It was a short week of school, but we got a lot done! I just want to start off by thanking you for being so flexible with the last minute remote learning day on Tuesday! Although it was last minute, I think that extra day of review benefitted the students greatly. On Monday, in math this week, as a class we completed a review for our test. This review packet was set up exactly like the test. It asked students to solve both 2-digit addition and subtraction problems using strategies taught in class. After completing each problem, we went over how to get to the correct answer using a strategy picked by the students. On our remote learning day, we reviewed all of the strategies for our addition and subtraction strategies to prepare even further for our test. We then were ready to take our test (if you have any concerns about how your student did, you can reach out to me.) Lastly, we completed Valentines Day rotations that asked students to review and have fun with the strategies that they have been working on! In reading this week, we completed testing, and are going to be forming new reading groups when we return from winter break. We also went over everything we have learned in our nonfiction unit, because after winter break, we will be beginning our brand new reading unit. We practiced our comprehension while reading by reading about chimpanzees and then answering questions about the reading. We also did this with another read and response about Valentines Day! In writing this week, we fished any unfinished nonfiction writing in our writing folders to help us prepare for our writing assessment. We also listened to a story called Snow Day, and wrote a story about what we planned to do for the rest of our snow day after remote learning on Tuesday! We then took our writing assessment, where students were given one hour to plan, write, and edit a nonfiction mini book. Lastly, we made valentines for patients at St. Judes Hospital, and if students had time, they created valentiners for their loved ones in their family. In spelling, we continued to practice our spelling words with different spelling activities. In religion, we learned about the biblical story of The Treaty with Gibeon. We also continued to learn about how we as Catholics celebrate God's love. In social studies, we continued to learn about the names of specific water and landforms found on earth. We also learned about the history of Valentine's Day!

Parents: 
Just as a reminder, winter break begins tomorrow, Friday 2/12 and ends on Tuesday 2/16. Students return to school on Wednesday 2/17. In addition, if a student misplaces any of their work, including homework, everything is uploaded to Google Classroom, and is available for printing at home if need be. 

Reminders:

• Winter Break Friday 2/12- Tuesday 2/16
• Ash Wednesday 2/17
• Ice Cream Social (Provided for Students by HSA) Thursday 2/18

• As per the Archdiocesan Office of Evangelization, Education and Catechesis and (OEEC) and from the CT Office of Early Childhood Coronavirus Memo #29, as of September 21, 2020, masks will be required for all children, 3 years of age and older. 
• If you would like to send in money for your student to have a special treat, we will only be having special treats at lunch on Fridays.