Welcome to Mrs. Buscemi's Second Grade!

Room 17

Happy New Year! Hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for a healthy and happy 2010! Can you believe that our year together is at the halfway point? We have been very busy in the Second Grade. Come and see what we have been doing!

RELIGION - We spent the month of December working on Advent and Christmas topics. We each made our own Advent Wreath and "lit" a candle on it each week to help count down the weeks to Christmas. We also assembled Jesus' family tree, or a Jesse Tree, to help us understand the lineage of Jesus.

We are currently working on preparation for Reconciliation. Reconciliation is scheduled for February 6th at 9:30 and 11:00. The children are working in a special Reconciliation book, which will be finished very soon!

READING - We will be starting Unit 3 in our reading series. We read Charlotte's Web in December. Currently, we are reading Sarah, Plain and Tall. This book is all about the pioneer days!

For January, our new genre is biography! Keep going to the library and checking out those books!

MATH - Before the holidays we completed our chapter on two digit subtraction with and without regrouping. We learned to use our addition skills from the previous chapter to check our subtraction answers and we spent some time on problem solving topics.

Now, we are working on Telling Time. Remember to practice at home! Don't forget about your addition and subtraction facts either!

LANGUAGE - We have learned all about NOUNS (person, place, thing or animal). Part of this unit also involved learning about special names and titles for people and places, names of the days/months, holidays, titles of books, plural nouns, and verbs.

SOCIAL STUDIES - In our current unit we are learning all about Working Together. We will cover the concepts of needs and wants, goods and services, transportation, trade, income and taxes. We will also spend a lesson or two talking about the contributions of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dream for mankind.

We hope the Curriculum Fair Project highlighting a country or a culture for Catholic Schools Week is going well. The project will be used as a Social Studies grade for the 3rd quarter. The children will share their projects with other grade levels and present it to the class during Catholic Schools Week.

HANDWRITING - We have officially begun cursive! The children are very excited and progressing well. We start with the under curve letters: i,t,u,e,f, & b and some small words.

Here are the Class Rules:

Here are the Class Rules:
1. Raise our hands to speak.
2. Listen to directions first time given.
3. Respect one another and their things.
4. Be truthful and honest.
5. Always try to do your best!