St. Christopher School

November is a time to reflect on all of God’s gifts. I am thankful for the 15 wonderful, hard-working, and enthusiastic students in 2-W!

This month we made handprint turkey magnets for our Meals on Wheels friends. We will be sending along another craft in January.

We are learning about common nouns, proper nouns, abbreviations and initials. We are associating letters and sounds for constant blends and diagraphs.

We read Arthur’s Thanksgiving by Marc Brown and Tomie de Paola’s The Popcorn Book. Did you know that today, Americans use 500,000,000 pounds of popcorn each year? Also, people in the Midwest buy more popcorn than in any other part of the US.

We are practicing writing math number sentences to match word problems.

Our Thanksgiving breakfast was a success. The children enjoyed eating corn Chex and corn muffins. Thank you for your kind donations.

Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season!

Welcome October! Grade Two had a busy first month of school. We learned about the Holy Family and the Blessed Trinity. We are reading about the Seven Sacraments and the special words and actions for each. In phonics, we reviewed short vowel sounds as well as beginning, middle and ending consonants. We are practicing fact families which are efficient tools to recall basic addition and subtraction facts. We celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday by making a flap book with facts about the seasons of an apple tree. The class enjoyed hearing about one of nature's secrets - the little red house with no windows and doors with a star inside.

Happy Fall!