Religion (Sadlier)

• Introduction to the Catholic Church
• Explaination of Advent, Lent & Holy Days
• Sacraments (Benziger)
  • 1st Reconciliation Preparation - children receive Reconciliation in January or February
  • 1st Eucharist Preparation - children receive 1st Communion in May
  • Planning and participating in 6 masses throughout the year

• Daily Math meeting (counting, time, money, calendar, graphing and problem solving)
• Daily timed tests (addition, subtraction and multiplication
• Assessments every 5 lessons
• Oral assessments every 10 lessons

• Metra Companion Reading
  • Daily phonetic practice
  • Daily writing exercises uses sentence structure and grammar exercises
• Harcourt Brace
  • Selections are excerpts from children's literature books
  • Vocabulary, comprehension questions and story maps are part of every story
  • Various writing activities go along with the stories

• Pre-test on Monday
• Post test on Friday
• Words used focus on high frequency words that are used in children's writing
• Children are expected to spell these words correctly in their daily writing

• Units include
  • Rules and Laws
  • The Environment
  • Then and Now
  • Global Awareness

• Many hands-on activities and experiments
• Units include
  • Dinosaurs
  • Science in the kitchen (matter)
  • Eco-systems
  • Energy (light and sound)
• Our class makes a project for the Science Fair in March

• Manuscript writing is practiced the 1st half of the year
• Cursive writing is introduced the 2nd half of the year

• Variety of mediums and activities

Expectations for 2nd Grade

1. Children are expected to read at least 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week
2. Homework in math and companion reading, 3-4 times a week
3. Practice math facts 2-3 times a week
4. Practice spelling words Monday-Thursday

Children should be able to do their homework independently, but checked over and directed by parents.


Supply List

• 1 Fiskars scissors
• 2 Elmer's white glue (4 oz. bottles)
• 2 boxes of #2 pencils
• 1 box of crayons (at least 16 count)
• 1 spiral notebook - wide lined (70 sheet)
• 1 8-count package of thin, original color markers
• 1 8-count package of wide, original color markers
• 2 boxes of Kleenex
• 4 2-pocket folders (one red and one green)
• 1 set of colored pencils
• 1 highlighter (med tip, not wide)
• 1 large eraser
• 1 box to hold markers and crayons (8 1/2 x 5)
• 2 packages of erasers for the top of pencils
• 2 glue sticks
• 1 small file box with dividers - can use the same on from 1st grade
• money for math (in 4 small zip-lock bags - one per denomination): 20 pennies, 10 dimes, 8 nickels, 6 quarters
• 2 boxes of snack crackers (goldfish, Ritz, Cheez-its, graham crackers, etc..) - no cookies please
• 1 box of baby wipes

It is a good idea to buy extra supplies during the Back-To-School Sales (pencils, markers, etc.)

You may drop off any of the supplies in front of the second grade classroom during the Parent Welcome Back Night in August.