Second+Grade+Happening+III

=November 7th= =Player of the Day: Louis Daniele= =We are having fun with the Cowgirl/Cowboy concepts. In music they have been thinking of and practicing some Country Music and Dance Steps. We are planning an event for sometime in December celebrating our Wild West Unit.=

=November 8th= =Player of the Day: Louis Daniele=

=November 9th= =The Battle of First in Math continues - Player of the Day: Manny Topakas 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Place always the same five battling every day!!!!! and having fun!!!! We moved up to 10th in the whole school!!!=

=November 10th= =Player of the Day: Lukas Hezel Lukas also took over 1st in our classroom.= =The students are achieving high sticker numbers which has now landed us in 9th Place in the whole school!!!!=

=November 14th= =Player of the Day: Megan Skidmore= =We will be reading: How I Spent My Summer Vacation as a Fantasy about cowboys= =In Religion we are learning that God's Love is unconditional and we are grateful for that.=

=November 16th= =Player of the Day for November 15th is Manny Topakas= =Player of the Day for November 16th is Lukas Hezel=

=November 23th= =Happy Thanksgiving to all of my second grade family. You are truly a gift that I treasure. Enjoy your families!!= =We are reading about Cowgirls and Cowboys. Exploring that lifestyle has been interesting to the children. We will be celebrating this unit with a Cowboy/Cowgirl get together. We will have several activities related to the Wild West. Stay tuned for more information.= =Once again, thank you and your children for being such an important part of my life.=

=November 29th= =Happy to hear that you all enjoyed a great holiday!= =Player of the Day: Nicolas Sellecchia for Monday; Jack Velten for Tuesday= =The children are excited about the Fractured Fairy Tale Plays....and we are in the process of planning a Cowboy/Cowgirl fun day.=

December 5th Happy December....let the excitement mount!!! As a class we are looking forward to many exciting celebrations. We are still practicing our plays. If you have play hairdresser toys, wigs, crown, empty plastic jar for the Emperor's New Hair; Little Late Riding Hood could use a skateboard, old lady glasses (words of Grace M), basket; toy bowls, spoons, trays, ladle for Slurping Beauty; Spiderella could use toy shoes, a wand, tiara. The props will be used for your stars to preform in their Fractured Fairy Tale. We will be wrapping up the cowboy/cowgirl theme with a morning of cowboy/cowgirl activities. Information will be coming. If any mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle, etc would like to bake cookies for this event please contact Mrs. Finnegan.

December 6th We are looking forward to the great events in December. Please be sure to encourage your children to have fun at the Secret Santa Shop on December 14th; Wild West Celebration on December 15th; Red and Green Day on December 21st; and our Live Nativity and Christmas Show on December 22nd; and come and join us at our Prayer Service for Christmas on December 23rd. Thanks for all that you do!!!!

December 13th We are saying farwell to the Wild West Theme this week with our celebration on Thursday. If your child would like to wear their cowboy hat or scraf please have them do that. We will be preforming our Fractured Fairy Tales for the seventh grade and first grade next week working around everyones schedule. The children may bring in simple costumes for their part. Suggestions may be aprons, crowns,wands, things that you may have around your home or home made (crowns from paper, mom's apron, fancy pencil as a wand). Narrators may wear a shirt or sweatshirt for the play. All costumes are to be sent into school in a bag or clearly marked. We will provide time for the actors to change into costume and then back into their uniform. Hoping that you are having a peaceful holiday season. Thanks for all your support.

December 16th First of all our classroom has moved into fourth place. This ranking is for the whole school. Great job my math wizards!!!! Players of the Day: Monday - Lizzy Donia; Tuesday - Kelley Manero; Wednesday - Louis Daniele; Thursday and Friday - Manny Topakas. Thanks to all!!!! Our Wild West Party was celebrated yesterday and a fantastic time was had by all - hopefully pictures will be posted soon. Thanks to all my parents for their continued support and help. Enjoy the weekend!





December 23, 2011 Wishing my families a Christmas Season filled with Love, Peace, and Happiness!! Looking forward to bringing in the New Year to celebrate exciting things with the students. We will be learning about the Mass in Religion, double digit addition with regrouping will be experienced in math, ELA will introduce us to unlikely friends where we will open our minds and hearts to people and animals who may be different from us, in writing we will continue to work toward success in expressing ourselves in the written word, the parts of speech and spelling patterns will progress through this trimester. Thanking you all for the great support and help that you share, I wish you a Great New Year!

January 9, 2012 Happy New Year! The students will begin preparing for the sacrament of Reconciliation. The book Reconciliation We are your people, the sheep of your flock will be incorporated into our Religion class. The students will receive Reconciliation in third grade. We are excited to present the students with this opportunity to embrace the Lord's forgiveness. Math: We will continue to practice our double digit addition. The students seem to be enjoying the idea of how far they have come. They should be extremely PROUD....I am proud of each and every child. Reading: We are looking forward to exploring unlikely friends. Charlotte's Web is the heartwarming story of a girl named Fern and a pig named Wilbur. Fern is dedicated to save Wilbur's life. This tale is sure to touch the hearts of the children. We will be creating many different activities for the unit. Stay tuned for details.

January 11, 2012 Danny McFadden, our student representative for the 2012 year book, came to class today. He explained the yearbook and told the children they may order it until January 31st. The fee is $20.00 for one and checks payable to Nativity of Our Lord or you may send in cash. Danny will pick up the orders daily and will write a receipt out for the office. The office will then have a record of the purchase.

January 18, 2012 Recent player of the day for our class: Kai Stieber, Nicolas Sellecchia, Louis Daniele, Jaden Burlingame, Manny Topakas, Megan Skidmore. The children are challenging themselves each day with math and they should be proud. They are accomplishing great things. Our class is loving Charlotte's Web. They look forward to meeting new characters and events each day. We are looking forward to creating our diorma of the setting and recreating an event with stick puppets.

January 20, 2012 Congratulations to the following students as they are ranked in the top 100 of our school: Nicolas Sellecchia, Manny Topakas, Lukas Hezel, Jack Velten, Louie Daniele. Our class is ranked fourth in the school.

January 27, 2012 We finished this week still in fourth place in the school for First In Math. This week our players of the day were Grace McDonough, Kelley Manero, Kai Stieber, Nicolas Sellecchia. Our class has worked very hard this week to complete many activities relating to our Charlotte's Web novel. You will have the opportunity to enjoy the great creations of the children. Sunday is Open House to begin our Catholic School Week celebration. Please came and take a look! Fun things on the schedule: Open House/State Parade; Grandparents Day and bingo; Mass and Mrs. G's celebration; also Nativity of Our Lord will present Doo Wop Show which will be a treat! Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.

February 10, 2012 We are still holding the title of fourth place in the school for First In Math. Our players of the day were Grace McDonough, Megan Skidmore, Louis Daniele - congratulations! We saying goodbye to Charlotte's Web this week. Some activities we enjoyed were creating a web to decorate the hall, a puppet show we performed for the class, elements of a novel were identified with "What's the Story?", we played a spider math game to help us with rounding. A Long Journey to Freedom will be our new unit. We will read informational text and fictionalized accounts of the African-American journey to freedom. Our math will continue with subtraction with regrouping. The students are amazing with their math skills - Be Proud!!

February 27, 2012 Players of the Day for the Week of February 20th: Nick Sellecchia, Jenna Grace Zahor, Colin Christian. WIth the Lenten Season here the children created decorative Crosses. We practiced a play in honor of President's Day. The children will see the plays presented today. Room 204 participated in a mock election for the president of the third grade. They learned that we needed to listen to each canadates. Looking forward to doing well in our Terra Nova Tests.

March 2, 2012 Our players of the week are Kate Finnegan, Lukas Hezel, Louis Daniele, Nick Sellecchia. We are proud to announce that Louise Daniele's entry into the Walk-a-thon Tee Shirt Contest won!! We are Proud! Great Job!

March 12, 2012 Our players of the week for the week ending March 9th: Manny Topakas, Nicolas Sellecchia, Colin Christian, Kate Finnegan. We are beging the third trimester and looking forward to mastering triple digit addition and subtraction and most of all multiplication. In Religion we are trying to live as Jesus did by following the Great Commandment. Continuing our Lenten Journey by celebrating the Stations of the Cross. Hand-Me-Down Tales From Around the World will be our focus in ELA. We have begun to read poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson. The children are very interested in the use of his imagenation. We will be reading Stone Soup by different authors and comparing the writers' style.

March 28, 2012 Players of the day for the past two weeks: Manny Topakas, Kai Stieber, Colin Christian, Louie Daniele, Hannah Mullin, Arianna Grose, Lukas Hezel. Congratulations to all our First in Math Players - we are still fourth in the school. We have enjoyed Hand-Me-Tales from Around the World, meeting people from Singapore, learning about our Continents, the Art Mobile featuring: From Tree to Form. Creating a fairy tale (in progress) seems to be an exciting event. Our pointllism butterfly are beautiful, flying tissue paper butterflies decorate our hall. We look forward to learning multiplication when we return from the Easter Holiday.

April 19, 2012 For the month of April we have had these players of the day: Manny Topakas, Kate Finnegan, Colin Christian, Ryan Waters, Louie Daniele, Nick Sellecchia, Maria Salas, Alaina Donia, Jenna Grace Zahor, Arianna Grose. We still remain 4th in the school which is a special honor. We are involved in creating a rock family in honor of our Science unit. The class discovered the difference between wants and needs (it was very interesting). Taking Care of Ourselves is the reading unit. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (tall tale) provided a lot of laughs and fun activities. Thanks to Jenna Grace Zahor we have added many great books. Today we read Peace Begins With You and it fit right into our Religion Study. Enjoy the weekend!

April 27, 2012 This was an exciting week for our children. We had a presentation about St. Gianna and we learned that she was a doctor who gave her life for her baby. On Thursday we participated in the Annual Nativity of Our Lord Walk-a-Thon. We are proud of Louie Daniele. He was the designer for one of the tee shirts. We loved wearing them yesterday. Players of the Week: Louie Daniele, Arianna Grose, Maria Salas, Nicolas Sellecchia - Congrats to all. Merit63 PA is still holding onto fourth place in the school. Have a great weekend!

May 15, 2012 We have had many players of the day for First in Math. Some of our Math Magicians are: Louie Daniele who has recently taken over first place; Lizzie Donia for two days; Manny Topakas for two days; Nick Sellecchia for three days; Christian Ramos for one day; Maria Salas for one day; Eduardo Guerra. We are very interested in the Digestive System since reading "What Happens to a Hamburger". We are looking forward to The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body. The children are in the process of creating their own prayer - please take time to share it with them. Math continues to be a winner as they are great Math Magicians!!