Monday, Dec. 1, 2025
Dear 2nd Grade Families,
Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving with family and friends, and the additional time off school. Thank you for you well wishes and lovely gifts. I appreciate your thoughtfulness.
We are now in the season of Advent. They children started working in their Advent booklets today and will continue each day in Advent as we patiently wait for Christmas.
Please see the December calendar sent home last week to keep track of the busy month of December.
A few quick things about this week:
We have gym tomorrow.
We have Library on Wednesday. If your child currently has their library book at home, please send it back to school tomorrow. Thank you.
Parents, kindly have your children arrive at school by 8 AM when our school morning assembly begins with Mrs. Picarello and clergy present with us. When children arrive later, they miss assembly altogether which consists of prayer, announcements, and recognition of school birthdays. Sometimes, children are missing our class morning meeting which consists of discussion of the day ahead, HW, any changes in our day, and brief sharing of student's news. I appreciate your help with this. Thank you so much!
Notes...
Weekly Reading comprehension assessments are given on Fridays. They consist of 5 questions that pertain to the weekly selection. We read the selection twice in class and dissect it, as well two additional opportunities for students to read it as morning work. The purple MyView reader will go home on Thursdays for the children to reread the weekly story with you. Please return the reader to school each day. Thank you.
At the end of the unit, I will add up the weekly comprehension quizzes for 1 grade. Once a month, they will have an end of unit assessment that will include spelling, vocabulary, and grammar they have also learned. We will review the unit work for a week before that Unit assessment.
Regarding the SSCA folder...the daily math worksheet is in their folders, any important papers from the office, or any letters etc. from me. You can take out any checked work like CW or HW, and keep it at home so the children aren't carrying folders back and forth with too many papers.
Please initial your child's planner where they write their HW each day so I know you've seen it and know what they are assigned for homework. Thank you.
Here's to a great week ahead!
Please see below for our Specials Schedule for the year:
Monday: Art
Tuesday: Gym
Wednesday: Library
Thursday: Media
Friday: Gym
Sincerely,
Mrs. Paguaga
2nd Grade Teacher
SSCA