😀 WHAT WE’RE LEARNING THIS WEEK 👍
This week students will learn about the parts of the church and the names of the articles of clothing a priest wears.
Altar
Pew
Ambo/Lectern
Tabernacle
Sanctuary light
Baptismal Font
Nave
Roman collar
Stole
Chasuble
Alb
Cincture
shoes
We will attend school Mass on Thursday at 8:30am. All families are welcome!
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✏MORNING PACKETS: Students will begin weekly Math and Language Arts morning packets this week. Each morning, they will answer 5 Math and 5 ELA questions independently. We will then go over the answers together as a class as students check for correctness. The packet will come home to be studied over the weekend. A quiz will be given next Monday, Aug. 30th, on the concepts covered in the packet.
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📚ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA): Second graders will begin Unit 1 of Skills and Unit 1 of Knowledge with our Amplify Reading Series this week. See below:
SPELLING - Spelling will begin during Week 3 of Amplify.
AMPLIFY SKILLS: Unit 1 will be a review for students who completed the Grade 1 CKLA program. In Unit 1, students will review: (1) a number of spellings from Grade 1 with an emphasis on consonant sounds; (2) one- and two-syllable words; and (3) a number of high-frequency Tricky Words. They will also read new decodable stories from the Unit 1 Reader, The Cat Bandit.
Decodable Reader: The Reader for Unit 1 is The Cat Bandit. The stories tell of the adventures of a hungry cat and the increasingly clever ways he gets food items seemingly out of his reach. The stories in this Reader are 100% decodable, meaning they are made up entirely of spellings and Tricky Words introduced or reviewed quickly in class during previous lessons.
The stories in The Cat Bandit are short and quite simple. They are designed to help students ease back into reading. The length and complexity of the stories will increase as students review more letter-sound correspondences. There will be a significant increase in length from the Unit 1 Reader to the Unit 2 Reader.
Grammar: Unit 1 will review the basics of sentence building, punctuation, and capitalization.
Writing: In Unit 1, students will review/practice writing complete sentences when answering questions.
AMPLIFY KNOWLEDGE: We will begin Unit 1 - Fairy Tales and Tall Tales this week. This domain will introduce students to classic fairy tales and tall tales and the well-known lessons they teach. This domain will also lay the foundation for understanding stories in future grades. The first half of the Fairy Tales and Tall Tales domain focuses on fairy tales. These fairy tales will remind students of the elements of fiction they have heard about in previous grades and will be a good reintroduction to the practice of listening and learning. Students who have used the Core Knowledge Language Arts program in Kindergarten and Grade 1 will be familiar with some fairy tales and the elements of the fairy tale genre from the Kings and Queens domain (Kindergarten) and from the Fairy Tales domain (Grade 1). In this domain, students will be reminded of these elements and hear the fairy tales “The Fisherman and His Wife,” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” and “Beauty and the Beast.” Students will be able to relate to the problems faced by characters in each of these memorable tales, as well as learn from the lessons in each story.
The second half of the domain focuses on tall tales and the elements of that genre. Students will be introduced to the tall tales “Paul Bunyan,” “Pecos Bill,” “John Henry,” and “Casey Jones.” Learning about tall tales will introduce students to the setting of the American frontier and some of the occupations settlers had there. For students who used the Core Knowledge Language Arts program in Grade 1, it will reinforce what they have already learned about the American frontier in the Frontier Explorers domain (Grade 1) and prepare them for the Westward Expansion domain, because many of the tall tale characters head west on their adventures. The tall tales in this domain will also introduce students to the literary concept of exaggeration.
Unit Stories: The Fisherman and His Wife, The Emperor's New Clothes, Beauty and the Beast Pt. 1, Beaty and the Beast Pt. 2, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Casey Jones
Review what they know about fairy tales and other types of fiction
Predict what will happen next
Compare and contrast different elements in the stories