With ISTEP right around the corner for the upper grades, we have been doing some practice ISTEP things in 2nd grade to get us ready for next year.  Some will be coming home on Friday.
Homework tonight is a spelling paper.  The children will also bringing home the quiz we took in spelling today.  Some of them need to study the words they missed.

A huge THANK YOU to our homeroom Moms for the fantastic Valentine's party we had today.  Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Gallagher came up with some very creative activities.  Thanks to the other parents who stopped in and helped out too.
The children have a spelling paper for homework tonight.  We will be doing our First Eucharist lesson on Thursday this week because we had the Valentine's party on Tuesday afternoon and couldn't do it then.. Please make sure the book is here for Thursday this week.  Next week we will be back to our regular Tuesday Eucharist lesson.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day.  There are 24 children in our class.  Have your child just sign his/her name on the 24 valentines and they will deliver them at the party.  The party is from11:30-12:40, if you would like to come and join us.
Homework tonight is the new spelling words for the week and the reading log.  Your child should be reading on their own  or to you for most of the 60 minutes.  You can still count minutes where you read to them.

The children are bringing home a letter from Sr. Joann today.  The letter contains your First Communion Mass information.  If you do not get a letter and have already filled out the forms for your 1st and 2nd choices, please let me know and I will check with Sister Joann.  If you haven't sent in your choices yet please do so as soon as possible.
Also coming home tonight is the form for a group picture.  They will be taken at the end of next week.

Some children still need to look up information on their holiday.  Other homework tonight is to study for the spelling test over Unit 18 words and the reading log is due tomorrow.

We are starting a project in Social Studies about the holidays.  Each child has one or two holidays to look up tonight on the computer.  They are also encouraged to bring in any books they might have about their holiday.  We will also be using the computers here at school.  Other homework tonight is their reading log.

Today we did our 4th lesson in our First Eucharist book.  I had 8 students that did not bring their books in to school.  This makes it very hard to have a lesson when all the children do not have a book.  Please do the home session and send the books back to school for next week's lesson. For those that did not have their book today, they will have to transfer the work they did in class today to their book.
Coming home tonight is the letter and permission slip for our next field trip.  Please ask your child for it tonight.
Homework tonight is a math paper and their reading log.  While I am talking about the reading log, please don't try to wait until Thursday night and then have your child read for 60 minutes.  The purpose of this program is to make reading a part of your child's daily life and also to improve their reading skills.