St. John Vianney Catholic School

St. John Vianney Catholic School Second Grade Newsletter Friday October 20, 2017

We are working on subtraction concepts.

Religion Some Second Graders will be prayer Kindness Rocks in leaders on Monday for the Living Second Grade! Rosary. Please practice Hail, Mary over the weekend. Writing Workshop Reading and Spelling We are writing personal narrative stories about This week, we read A Letter to Amy. Next pets. We also finished writing about the week we will read Best Friends Club. funniest part of Judy Moody and Stink books Our Spelling Words will be: porch, care, dear, that we read. more, short, bare, tore, year, corn, share, before, very, there, their, they’re, allowed, leaned, president, rules, promise. Halloween Party If you are interested in planning and/or ****Words and sentences will come home on Monday. Practice test will be on Wednesday and final test will helping with Halloween party, please let be on Friday. me know. Corrected Practice Tests will be sent home Wednesday, please have your child write each Party will be from 1:00 to 3:30 on incorrect word three times and sentences once Tuesday October 31. Thank you. correctly. Sign the practice test to say that you have checked that they have done so. Spelling City will be assigned as homework on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Fifteen minute sessions would be very helpful. Please help your child study the words and remember to return the practice test. Special Persons Day Thank you for helping to make sure your children had special people on Thursday! A very nice time was had by all!

2 Second Grade Newsletter A special thank you to Nikki Correll for organizing the event for us!!!

Flexible Seating I would like to try some flexible seating ideas in our classroom and I’m looking for donations of a few things. If you would like to donate any of these items it would be very much appreciated. Or if you have child size chairs or anything else that you thing would make interesting seating please let me know. Thank you.

Plastic lap desks (available at Michaels, Target, WalMart, Amazon, etc…) Child’s Pod Chair Wobble Stools Exercise Balls Floor chairs

RESPONSIBILITY Our main focus in 2nd Grade is learning to be responsible students! Together we can help our 2nd Graders develop the skills needed to be successful and responsible students in future grades! We must work together to achieve this goal.