Week of March 18th-22nd

Tuesday-March 19th Public Library Trip

Wednesday-All school Mass

Thursday-Mass for grades 1-3

Friday-Field Trip to the PAC we need to be at School this morning at 7:15 a.m.

Friday night Fish Fry from 4-7 p.m. Sponsored by Home and School

Friday afternoon at 2;00 p.m. Stations and Benediction

Saturday-March 23 Bowling Fund Raiser!!  Come and support this wonderful event.  Baskets to bid on will be there!!!

Week of February 19^th-22^nd

Tuesday and Friday-Miss Clark will start the Jr. Achievement program with the 2^nd graders.

Mass will be on Wednesday and Thursday.

Liturgy Club will meet at 3:15 on Wednesday

Children’s’ Choir practice will meet on Thursday from 3:30 until 4:30 p.m. 

Field trip permission slips sent last week are due back on March 8^th.

Academics:

This week the children will be starting their First Eucharist preparation.  We will be talking about the Coming of the Holy Spirit and Belonging to the Church.

In science we will be learning about the moon.

In math we will be working on regrouping in subtraction.  Basic facts are giving the children difficulty.  I will be giving a time test once a week on addition and subtraction facts so practice daily the facts.

In phonics for 3^rd grade we will work on syllables, compound words and y as a vowel.

In phonics for 2^nd grade we will work on hard and soft c and g.

In spelling we will have Unit 13 test on long a words.

Language we will continue working on verbs.

In reading we will work on content area and identifying important and unimportant information.

Have a good rest of the week.

Miss KundingerWeek of February 19^th-22^nd

Tuesday and Friday-Miss Clark will start the Jr. Achievement program with the 2^nd graders.

Mass will be on Wednesday and Thursday.

Liturgy Club will meet at 3:15 on Wednesday

Children’s’ Choir practice will meet on Thursday from 3:30 until 4:30 p.m. 

Field trip permission slips sent last week are due back on March 8^th.

Academics:

This week the children will be starting their First Eucharist preparation.  We will be talking about the Coming of the Holy Spirit and Belonging to the Church.

In science we will be learning about the moon.

In math we will be working on regrouping in subtraction.  Basic facts are giving the children difficulty.  I will be giving a time test once a week on addition and subtraction facts so practice daily the facts.

In phonics for 3^rd grade we will work on syllables, compound words and y as a vowel.

In phonics for 2^nd grade we will work on hard and soft c and g.

In spelling we will have Unit 13 test on long a words.

Language we will continue working on verbs.

In reading we will work on content area and identifying important and unimportant information.

Have a good rest of the week.

Miss Kundinger

Week of February 11, 2013

Mass-Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.  Special Lenten Project following the Mass.  Second and Third Graders will be doing the opening at the Mass on Wednesday.  Also a collection will be taken up during this Mass.

Wednesday-1/2 day at school.  Lunch will be served.  Dismissal at 11:40 a.m.

Thursday-Mass at 8:30 a.m.  Also 3:30-4:30 in the Music room starts the Children’s’ Choir practice.  If your child is interested please return the gold colored sheet which was sent a few weeks back.  What a great way for your child to participate in the Mass.

Valentine’s Day Party from 11:45-12:55.  Children can pass out Valentine’s at this time and treats.

Jump Rope for Heart on this day from 1:00 to the end of the Day.  Please bring in Pledges.  A reminder for each $1.00 children will get a foot of toilet paper to wrap Mrs. Wagenson in.  The class that raises the most gets to throw a pie in their teachers face.

Religion-This week we will be focusing on what we can do during Lent.  The class will be designing a calendar of activities during the forty days of lent.

Social studies-Quiz on Chapter 5 Lesson 2 will be on Tuesday.  Thursday we will have an entire Chapter 5 Test.  Please start reviewing daily.

Phonics we are working on abbreviations and contractions in second grade.

Third grade will work on multiple syllable words.

In reading we are working on summarizing, prefixes and suffixes and story comprehension.

In spelling we are working with long a word that have ai, ay and a consonant e patterns.

In language we will work on verbs.

Have a good week.

Miss Kundinger

Week of December 10^th-21^st, 2012

Wednesday and Thursday-Mass at 8:30 a.m.  Dress up

Thursday, Dec. 13^th Christmas Program at 6:00 p.m.  Please be to school at 5:30.  Come to the Classroom to change into costumes.

Sunday December 16^th- Be to school by 10:45 a.m.  Program to start at 11:15 a.m.

Tuesday December 18^th-Public Library-Bring back books and card to check out books.

We will be working on Chapters 3 and 4 in our Reconciliation books.  Study the words in Black and the concepts at the beginning and end of chapters.

In science we will be finishing up the atmosphere.  A quiz on the Thermosphere will be given on Tuesday, December 11^th.

We will continue on learning words with the r controlled vowel sounds.

Miss Kundinger’s reading group will be working on the story Willie’s Not the Hugging Kind defining the words strong, either, busy, safe, quick, rushing and grabbed.  We will also review the squ and str words.

In math we will be working on reading pictographs and story problems that relate to pictographs.

Spelling test will be on Wednesday using al and alk words Unit 7 Lesson 2.  Study hard for the test.

Have a good week.

Miss Kundinger

December 3^rd, 2012

This week we will be working on Soft Skills or the Classroom routine.  When children come to school they first must hang up their coats, come in the room and put their homework in the work in baskets.  Then they need to do their milk count and finally work on their handwriting or beginning of the day activity.  Too many of the students are not following this routine so I ask you to gently remind them in the morning what their job is when they come to school.

Another soft skill children need to work on is basic math facts.  Many children are counting on their fingers or using the calendar to calculate answers.  My expectation is that facts must be memorized.  Each day I ask you to set aside an extra 10 minutes to practice facts addition and subtraction.  I do give a time test and the goal is to get 100 problems finish in 2 minutes.  Right now the average is 40 problems in 5 minutes.  Children have some work in this area.

In writing the soft skills include remembering to write in complete sentences and proofing what it written.  Capital letters and punctuation are often forgotten.  Children need to use the words from a question to formulate the answer in a statement.

Children also need to remember to put their name on their homework.  I will be deducting points from now on if names are not on the paper.  It is just something that is expected now.

We will be working on Reconciliation in religion.  Don’t forget second grade parents/children there is a meeting this Wednesday, December 5^th at 6:00 in the Cafeteria. 

In Social studies we will be learning about the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears.

In science we will be learning about the earth’s atmosphere

We continue to work on r controlled vowels we will have a test on Thursday.  I also am giving dictation sentences usually on Wednesday.

We continue to work on adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers in math.  I am also working on comparing data using tally marks in story problems this week.

Spelling we have al words.  We will also work with compound words in language.

On Wednesday we will be making Poppers in Reading Class! 

                                                                                                                                                Miss Kundinger

Hi Everyone,

My name is Mrs. Kundinger.  I am looking forward to embarking on a year of learning with our second grade students!  Stay tuned to my weekly blog articles for updates on what we are doing in the classroom, important dates to remember, etc.

If you need to reach me, you can send an email to:  second@shcscardinals.org 

Have a great day!

Mrs. Kundinger

Week of November 12^th

Events for the Week:

Mass will be on Wednesday and Thursday.

Friday-Public Library at 1:00 p.m. (We are going on Friday as we have a ½ day of school on November 20^th).

Upcoming Events:

November 20^th ½ day of school Dismissal at 11:40 a.m.  November 21, 22 and 23^rd there is no School.

Christmas Program will be on December 13^th and 16^th.  Please practice your speaking parts and music.  Information on Costumes was also sent this week.

Scholastic book order for Holiday Gift books will be due on November 29^th.  If you are ordering books for Christmas presents let me know in a note and I will wrap them up in a paper bag or give to a sibling in school for you or hold them until you can pick them up.  Just let me know what you would like me to do.  Checks can be made right out to Scholastic book Club.

Academics;

Please keep reviewing the Ten Commandments and Prayers for Reconciliation.  The First through Sixth Commandment must be known by the end of this week.

In Social Studies we will be learning about the Navajo pages 74-76 in Social Studies can be reviewed on this topic.

In Science we will be learning about the Earth’s Atmosphere.

We will be working on words for more than one and Mechanics using Titles and Dates.

In math we are working on regrouping in subtraction.  I will also quiz adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers at the end of the week.  Wednesday we will work on Problem solving.  At home we are working on reading the information carefully, identifying key words to help us decide if we need to add or subtract.

We continue to work on Short u words in our spelling unit.

Have a good Week!

Miss Kundinger