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Mrs. Gracia - 2B
dgracia@stdomschool.org
November/December Happenings in Second Grade
Important dates:
11/1 All Saints Day Mass 9am
Winter uniforms begin
11/3 Early dismissal
Pow Wow permission slips due
11/17 End of Trimester 1
11/21 Pow Wow
11/22 School Pep Rally, 10:30 . . . Dress down in Blue and white
Early dismissal – No AfterCare
11/23 -11/26 Happy Thanksgiving! No School
12/1 Parent-Teacher Conferences..No School
12/8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception - no school for students
12/22 Early Dismissal
12/23-1/1 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! School Closed
The following is curriculum being covered in the months of November and December:
Religion:
How a friendship with Jesus is related to happiness on Earth and in Heaven
Bible story of Jesus and Zacchaeus
Jesus loves us even when we have done wrong
Distinguish between good and bad choices
God loves us no matter what
Identify sin and accidents
Sacrament of Reconciliation is Jesus' gift for peace and spiritual growth
Reading:
Identifying main topic and key details
Suffixes and prefixes
Making, confirming, and changing predictions
Read stories about animals and the world
Singular, plural nouns, irregular plural nouns
Proper and common nouns
Possessive nouns and commas in a series
Action and present tense verbs
Consonant digraphs (ch, tch, sh, ph, th, ng, wh),
Three letter blends (str, thr, spl, shr, scr, spr)
Long vowels a and i
Apostrophes
Expository text
How are offspring like their parents?
Rhymes/poems
Key details Abbreviations
How Earth’s forces affect us
Poetry
Present, past, and future tense verbs
Compound words
Synonyms
Narrative fiction
Math:
Problem solving
Two digit addition with and without regrouping
Word problems
Rounding/estimating to the nearest ten
Horizontal/vertical addition
Addition of 3 two digit numbers
Mental math vs pencil and paper
Multiple step problems
Subtraction of two digit numbers with and without regrouping
Multiple ways to write a number
Modeling 10’s and 1’s
Solid figures
Faces, edges, vertices
Plane figures
Lines of symmetry
Social Studies:
Native American Unit
Native American Pow Wow
Election/Veteran’s Day
How voting changes rules
Good citizenship
Diversity in neighborhoods
Rural, Urban, and Suburban communities
Map and Globe Skills
Map Key and Directions
Earth’s land and water
Where people live and why
Transportation
Science:
Observing changes in Matter
Temperature in matter - heating and cooling
Matter within objects
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