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Dress Your Best Day! Catholic Schools Week 2012

Howdy partners! Welcome to room 208!

Mrs. McLean's Second Grade
2011/2012

The Weekly Roundup for 1/30/12 to 2/3/12

Highlights of the Week

A Quick Rundown: Catholic Schools Week, Reconciliation, Groundhog day, research papers, read with Mrs. McLean, Bingo, and surprise with the teachers.

*Alert!!
All Students from the Lower Campus will be dismissed from the Upper Campus on Friday, February 3. Buses will leave from the UC as normal. Parent Pick Up children will wait in the Christ the King gathering space for your arrival. Please park in the CTK parking lot. Club Saint Children will be bussed to the Lower Campus. Please send a note for any transportation changes by Noon on Friday. Thank you.

*Next week is Catholic Schools Week! We have a fun week planned.
"Catholic Schools: Faith, Academics. Service."
We start the week with a mass at St. Thomas the Apostle at 11:00 am. Please join us to kick off our special week! I'll be there with my family!

Monday: Celebrate our Students Day
Dress as your favorite movie character!

Tuesday: Celebrate our Families Day
Dress in your comfy clothes and slippers and bring a stuffed animal to snuggle with.
There will be coffee for the parents at drop off so come on by. Feel free to drop in and say hello!!

Wednesday: Celebrate our School Day
Dress in your Sparkles!

Thursday: Celebrate our Service to Others Day-
Jugs for Jabby Day- This is the final collection day, it is also Waite House pick up day
Dress in your red and white in honor of Jack Jablonski.

Friday: Celebrate our Parishes Day!
Dress your best day. We will be heading over to the Upper Campus at 1:15 for an all school mass and then we will have fun afternoon activities with all of the grades. All students will be dismissed from the Upper Campus that day.

Sunday: Closing Mass at Christ the King at 9:30 am.

*February is "I Love To Read Month." A calendar went home on Friday, January 27th with dates that people signed up. We look forward to having you visit our classroom from 10:45 to 11:00, with a picture book! Thanks!

*Planners!!! The children have been so excited with their new responsibility. Please check the planner every day and sign it in the yellow box next to the corresponding day. You can also communicate with me in the planner! We will not send the planner home on Fridays. Thanks!

Religion:
We learned about Reconciliation and forgiveness. We also discussed Baptism and being a part of the church family. We quizzed yesterday.

Communications: This week we read, The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Laundry. We read this story together and partner read it it. We learned about cause and effect, pronouns, dipthongs, and fantasy stories.
We began to work on research paragraphs on Thursday. We will be researching non-fiction topics here at school. The children do not have to do anything at home unless they want to find more information there. They can bring in books to help them out. The children are quite excited to read up on some of his or her favorite things. Ask you child what they are researching!

Spelling Skill of the Week: ll, ss, ff words
We will test for our skill on Monday mornings. There will be ten words and two sentences that the children have been exposed to in the prior week. They are ready!
Next week

Math: We tested on chapter six today about time. Our next unit will be on graphs.
We began our mini-unit on Time. We are concentrating on telling time on analog and digital clocks. We are also trying to tell time by the minute. We are learning about minutes before the hour or after the hour such as in 2:25 or twenty-five minutes after 2. We will also be learning about reading a calendar.
We began Xtra math in our classroom. You can do it at home too! A letter went home in the BGE's today with a code for your child. You can moniter his or her progress and join in at home. Xtra math helps us with our adding and subracting skills just like our minute math. The kids LOVE it. Awesome!

Social Studies/Social Skills: We are learning about countries.

Art: We made compliment hearts yesterday. They look so pretty in the hallway!

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Things to Know

*Please remember to call Lenore to let me now if there is a change in pick-up for the day. If you show up after school, please have your child say good-bye to me before they leave the bus line. I want to ensure your child is as safe as can be. Thanks!

* is our Cowpoke of the week for February 6th!

**HOMEWORK NEWS***
There is a blue folder this week. We are working on spelling words, reading, and Three boxes on the communications strip.

Red Folder News

*There should be a folder home on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to work on math.

*Waite House- 82 items! Thank you for your help. Next month pick-up will be March 1st.

*Homework Folders- Please look for the BLUE folder to come home on Mondays. Please return the BLUE folder on Fridays. The RED folder is the daily take home folder. Please look for that to come home each day and please return it the following morning. Please make sure to check that folder each night. There might be math homework or other assignments in the RED folder.

*If you need to get a hold of me please email me at kmclean@carondelet-mpls.org or call me at 612-926-0001 ext. 19. I am available most days at 8:30 in the morning until 4:45-5 at night. I will try to respond promptly to inquiries and questions regarding your children. Please know that if I cannot get back to you right away, then I will respond within 24 hours. Thank you!

*A note from Señora Aguirre:

Please check my page in the Carondelet website (click on Teacher Pages and then Specialists) to get weekly updates on what students are learning in class.

Gracias!

*We have fruit and vegetable break in room 208. As a class we sat down and brainstormed healthy food choices. We made a list of fruits and veggies that we enjoy. Snack will be at 3 p.m. every day. Please make sure to help your child pack a snack they would like to eat!

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Fun links:

- Our math series website. Click here to help get definitions and perhaps help with homework!

- For spelling word fun! Click here

-Order Scholastic books online! Select a Username & Password, then enter the one time activation code: DXRYQ. Click here to order!

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Upcoming Events...

Feb. 3 - Upper Campus all school games. Pick up at upper campus!
Feb. 5 - End C.S.W. with mass at Christ the King 9:30 a.m.
Feb. 10- Last Art Adventure
Feb. 14- Valentine Party
Feb. 20- President's Day- no School
Feb. 21- Mardi Gras
Feb. 22-Ash Wednesday Prayer Service 10:15 planned by 2nd grade
Feb. 25-Parent's A Go-Go
March 2-No School- Teacher In-service
March 12-Conferences begin for the next two weeks

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Please Remember!

BGE (Big Green Envelopes) Please return your child’s BGE on Mondays!

All volunteers need to have Background Checks, Virtus and Code of Conduct.

Please return your child's library book every Thursday.

Please wear gym shoes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

*When you come to pick up your child after school at 4:20, please wait outside the school building on 44th street. Please remind your child to say good-bye to me with a high five, a hug, a handshake, or a wave only when they see you! This is very important and ensures me that your child is going with the right person. Thank you for your help.

* Please make sure your child has a bus tag on the outside of their backpack.

* Please make sure your child knows where they go on that specific day. It helps if you tell them every day how they are coming home so they can let someone know if there is a mistake.

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Classroom Rules

1. The Golden Rule
2. Take care of property
3. Listen to adults and kids
4. Keep Your bodies and words kind
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Our Weekly Specials in room 208
    Monday -Spanish at 10:15
              Gym at 2:20
Tuesday- Music at 2:15
Wednesday- Spanish at 11:15
              Gym at 2:20
Thursday- Library at 11:20
              Music at 2:15
Friday- Gym at 2:20
Recess is from 12:20 to 12:45
Lunch is from 12:45 to 1:10

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