My name is Kathleen Jacono, and I am a second grade teacher at SMM. My tenure here began in 1995 teaching Reading and English to seventh and eighth graders. The following year, I transitioned to first grade, where I remained for 20 years. This is my seventh year teaching second grade at SMM. I truly love this age group and I feel very privileged to work alongside the children as they prepare to receive two sacraments. I am an alumni of St. Mary Magdalen school which makes this nurturing environment feel like home.
Dear Families,
Please review my weekly email and newsletter for reminders and calendar events.
PHONICS REVIEW ALERT! Phonics "Blend-it Books" are available on your second grader's thinkcentral app by using classlink at home. These are a useful tool for phonics review. To locate this option, simply open the "library" and search Blend-It Books. You should be able to print or simply have your second grader read from any device. All units are available on the library.
My google classroom code is wupihzn. This may be helpful when assisting your child at home. There is an extra quickcard taped inside of your child's binder. Google usernames and Passwords are also posted inside of binders.
2A Reminders and General Information
1. Please take the time to review the SMM weekly newsletter. The link is attached to this page for your convenience.
2. Look for the maroon Friday folder to come home each weekend. Please send any office or time sensitive materials in this folder.
3. Please please please make sure you label your child's belongings including fleece, sweaters, and sweatshirts. My room gets very cool. Each child should have their sweater or sweatshirt daily. The students go outside everyday unless there is rain. Please send your child with the appropriate outerwear.
4. Look for the homework binder to come home each day that your child is in the building. It will contain the homework organizer and green folder. Please sign the organizer daily and check the contents of the folder.
5. Please scroll down this page to see each subject including the Essential Questions, Vocabulary, and Concepts/Strategies/Skills that are being studied. Bolded information is the content studied at that time.
6. Lunch will be eaten in the church hall. Afternoon snack will be shared in the classroom or outside.
2A Specials Schedule
Monday- Spanish and Library
Tuesday- Gym
Wednesday- Technology
Thursday- Music
Friday-Art
MATH: The bolded chapter is the concept we are currently studying.
Chapter 1 Numbers and Arrays
Vocabulary- array, equal groups, even, repeated addition, column, equation, odd, row
Chapter 2 - Fluency and Strategies within 20
Vocabulary- addends, doubles minus 1, expression, difference, doubles plus 1, sum
Chapter 3 - Addition to 100 Strategies
Vocabulary-compensation, open number line
Chapter 4 -Fluently Add within 100
Vocabulary-Partial sums, regroup
Chapter 5- Subtraction to 100 Strategies
Vocabulary: difference, halves, minus, quarters, subtraction equation, unequal shares
Chapter 6- Fluently Subtract within 100
Vocabulary- equal groups, even, odd, repeated addition
Chapter 7- Understanding Place Value to 1000
Vocabulary- expanded form, hundred, hundreds place, standard form, thousand, word form
Chapter 8 - Count and Compare Numbers to 1000
Vocabulary-compare, equal to, =, increase, decrease, greater than >, less than <
Chapter 9- Add Numbers within 1000
Vocabulary- edge, flat surface, vertex, compatible numbers
Chapter 10-Subtract numbers within 1000
Vocabulary-compensation, difference, open number line, difference, regroup, sum
Chapter 11- Measure and Estimate Lengths
Vocabulary: centimeter, estimate, length, height, foot, inch, meter, yard
Chapter 12- Solve Length Problems
Vocabulary-bar model, length unit, measure
Chapter 13- Represent and Interpret Data
Vocabulary-tally chart, talley mark, bar graph, data, key, line plot, picture graph, survey
Chapter 14- Money and Time
Vocabulary-analog clock, hour hand, minute hand, $1 bill, $5 bill, $10 bill, $20 bill, AM, PM, cent, cent sign, dime, dollar, dollar sign, half past, midnight, nickel, noon, penny, quarter, quarter past, quarter to
Chapter 15- Identify and Partition Shapes
Vocabulary- equal shares, unequal shares, angle, cube, edge, face, fourths, halves, hexagon, octagon, pentagon, quadrilateral, rhombus, polygon , right angel, side, thirds, vertex
Unit 1 Word Lists
High Frequency Words
Lesson 1- around, be, five, help, next, or, pull, take, until, walked
Lesson 2- brings, children, come, do, family, like, make, those, use. with
Lesson 3- city, full, no, other, places, put, school, sing, think, this
Lesson 4- by, cheer, could, hello, hundred, mind, play, read, use, today
Lesson 5- both, cold, eat, find, green, little, long, says, table, we
Target Vocabulary
Lesson 1- curly, straight, floppy, collars, drooled, weighed, stood, row
Lesson 2- remembered, porch, crown, cousin, spend, stuck, visit, piano
Lesson 3- hairy, mammals, litter, stayed, canned, chews, clipped, coat
Lesson 4- insects, dangerous, scare, sticky, rotten, screaming, breeze, judge
Lesson 5- wonderful. noises, quiet, sprinkled, share, notice, bursting, suddenly
Spelling Words
Lesson 1- sad, dig, jam, glad, list, win, flat, if, fix, rip, kit, mask, as, his, sandwich, picnic
Lesson 2- wet, job, hug, rest, spot, mud, left, help, plum, nut, net, hot, get, not lunch, spend
Lesson 3- cake, mine, plate, size, ate, grape, prize, wipe, race, line, pile, rake, gave, bike, mistake, while
Lesson 4- doze, nose, use, rose, pole, close, cute, woke, mule, rode, role, tune, home. joke, wrote, ice cube
Lesson 5- spin, clap, grade, swim, place, last, test, skin, drag, glide, just, stage, slip, drive, climb, price
Unit 2 Word Lists
High Frequency Words
Lesson 6- animals, bear, know most, myself, second, she, sleep, three, work
Lesson 7 air, car, cried, funny, he, pictures, pretty, told, try, window
Lesson 8- before, eye, few, happy, high, my, open, people, starts, yellow
Lesson 9- afraid, dark, for, kept, many, might, own, show, why, would
Lesson 10- because, better, go, me, old, really, right, they, was, you
Target Vocabulary
Lesson 6- shaped, branches, pond, beaks, deepest, break, hang, winding
Lesson 7- blooming, shovels, scent, tough, wrinkled, plain, muscles, nodded
Lesson 8- beware, damage, bend, flash, pounding, prevent, reach, equal
Lesson 9- tunnel, curled, height, direction, toward, healed, brag, tease.
Lesson 10-millions, choices, drift, simple, weaker, wrapped, disgusting, decide
Spelling Words.
Lesson 6 -next, end, camp, sank, sing, drink, hunt, stand, long, stamp, pond, bring, jump, left, young, friend
Lesson 7- dress, spell, class, full, add, neck, stuck, kick, rock, black, trick, doll, will, off, across, pocket
Lesson 8- dish, than, chest, such, thin, push, shine, chase, white, while, these, flash, which, then, catch, thumb
Lesson 9- liked, using, riding, chased, spilled, making, closed, hoping, baked, hiding, standing, asked, mixed, sleeping, teasing, knocking
Lesson 10- I'm, don't, isn't can't we'll, it's, I've, didn't, you're, that's, wasn't, you've, us, them, they're, wouldn't
Unit 3 Word Lists
High Frequency
Lesson 11: another, far, grow, hard, heard, kind, light, more, some, to
Lesson 12: against, along, bird, different, girl, hold, moving, night, part, someone
Lesson 13: about, everything, first, her, of, slowly, store, story, two, world
Lesson 14: all, food, front, hair, never, party, sky, started, stories, warm,
Lesson 15: after, book, care, ever, live, new, off, over, small thought
Target Vocabulary
Lesson 11: understand, gathered, impatient, impossible, believe, problem, demand, furious
Lesson 12: vibration, tune, volume, expression, creative, performance, concentrate, relieved
Lesson 13: culture, community, languages, wear, subjects, lessons, special, transportation
Lesson 14: knowledge, curious, motion, silence, illness, imitated, darkness, behavior,
Lesson 15: obeys, safety, attention, buddy, station, speech, shocked, enormous.
Spelling Words
Lesson 11: hens, eggs, ducks, bikes, boxes, wishes, dresses, names, bells, stamps, dishes, grapes, jets, frogs, stitches, fences
Lesson 12- pay, wait, paint, train, pail, clay, tray, plain, stain, hay, gray, away, stay, day, raisin, birthday
Lesson 13: free, teach, teeth, please, beach, wheel, team, speak, sneeze, sheep, meaning, weave, eat, read, between, reason, about, first, world, slowly
Lesson 14: own, most, soap, float, both, know. loan, goat, flow, loaf, throw, coach, so, grow, swallow, ocean, started, stories, sky, party
Lesson 15: cannot, pancake, maybe, baseball, playground, someone, myself, classroom, sunshine, outside, upon, nothing, into, inside, nobody, everywhere, off, new, after, over
Unit 4 Word Lists
High Frequency Words
Lesson 16: also, fly, gone, have, horse, look, river, said, saw, something
Lesson 17: any, blue, carry, doing, else, room, studied, sure, teacher, turned
Lesson 18: always, anything, been, draw, friends, mother, soon, under, watch, words.
Lesson 19: are, baby, didn't, good, I'll, is, please, sound, talk, too
Lesson 20: I've, begins, being, flower, ground, laugh, ready, stood, tall, very
Target Vocabulary
Lesson 16: received, account, budget, fund, chuckled, staring, repeated, disappointed
Lesson 17: practice, hurried, position, roared, extra, curb, cheered, final
Lesson 18: accepted, express, taught, grand, pretend, prize, wonder, fluttering
Lesson 19: assistant, agreed, polite, failed, tearing, wisdom, cleared, trouble
Lesson 20: depended, sore, sprang, studied, gazing, hero, exercise, overlooked
Spelling Words
Lesson 16: running, clapped, stopped, hopping, batted, selling, pinned, cutting, sitting, rubbed, missed, grabbed, mixed, going, wrapped, swelling, gone, saw, said, something
Lesson 17: night, kind, spy, child, light, find, right, high, wild, July, fry, sigh, by, why, behind, lightning, sure, studied, carry, teacher
Lesson 18: happy, pretty, baby, very, puppy, funny, carry, lucky, only, sunny, penny, city, tiny, many, sorry, noisy, friends, always, draw, been
Lesson 19: car, dark, arm, star, park, yard, party, hard, farm, start, part, spark, art, jar, carpet, apartment, please, sound, didn't, I'll
Lesson 20-horn, story, fork. score, store, corn, morning, shore, short, born, tore, forget, for, more, report, force, stood, ground laugh, ready
UNIT 5 Word Lists
High Frequency Words
Lesson 21: across, behind, house, how, move, nothing, one, out, took, voice.
Lesson 22: boy, does, everyone, field, floor, found, into, their, toward, what’s
Lesson 23: coming, down, four, give, great, idea, knew, large, though, write,
Lesson 24: away, began, brother, brown, earth, here, listening, surprised, there, without
Lesson 25: ball, done, hear, learn, leaves, only, ouTarget Vocabulary
r, through, were, young
Lesson 21: webbed, waterproof, steer, whistle, otherwise, junior, slippery, finally
Lesson 22: knot, copy, planning, lonely, heavily, seriously, answered, guessed
TRADE BOOK POLAR BEARS: Arctic, cub, den, lemming, tundra, dart, heaves, shrinking, survive, extinct, fierce
Lesson 23: yarn, stands, spinning, dye, weave, sharpening, duplicated, delicious
Lesson 24: tumbling, flung, tangled, empty, swift, peacefully, stream, blazed
Lesson 25: pod, soak, shoot, root, nutrition, tasty, soften, grain
Spelling Words
Lesson 21: father, over, under, herd, water, verb, paper, cracker, offer, cover, germ, master, fern, ever, remember, feather, across, voice, house, behind.
Lesson 22: meet, meat, week, weak, mane, main, tail, tale, be, bee, too, two, sea, see, threw, through, does, their, toward, what's
TRADE BOOK: Arctic, cub, den, extinct, fierce, fur, heaves, helpless, ice, island, lemming, nibble, ruffle, seaweed, sniffs, snow, survive, tumbles, tundra, twitch
Lesson 23: helpful, sadly, hopeful, thankful, slowly, wishful, kindly, useful, safely, painful, mouthful, weakly, jumped, saying, quickly, wonderful, four, knew, though, write
Lesson 24: unhappy, retell, untangle, unkind, repaint, refill, unlike, remake, unpack, reread, unlock, replay, read, happy, rewrite, overheard, brothers, here, surprised, there
Lesson 25: tall, saw, dog, draw, call, fall, soft, paw, ball, yawn, log, small, all, walk, awful, wallpaper, done, leaves, our, were
UNIT 6 Word Lists
High Frequency Words
Lesson 26: again, ago, alone, don’t, every, follow, goes, head now, won’t
Lesson 27: buy, called , even, father, maybe, outside, tomorrow, town, water, where
Lesson 28: above, enough, falling, happened, lived, loved, should, sorry, want, while.
Lesson 29: eight, near, once, paper, seven, upon, wash, who, woman, your
Lesson 30: almost, dear, door, from, money, pushed, remember, sometimes, together, years.
Target Words
Lesson 26: ordinary, control, cage, upset, sensible, confused, training, suspiciously
Lesson 27: exact, discovered, remove, growled, amazed, explained, guard, souvenirs.
Lesson 28: served, overjoyed, valuable, worn, concealed, glimmering, content, task
Lesson 29: search, contained, startled, odd, leaned, tossed, grateful, village
Lesson 30: inventions, remarkable, designed, amounts, accomplishments, achieve, composed, result.
Spelling Words
Lesson 26: root, crew, spoon, few, bloom, grew, room, you, stew, boost, scoop, flew, zoo, noon, shampoo, balloon, again, don't, goes, won't
Novel: Toasty, happier, snuggled, dream, chew, frighten, bedroom, growled, cookies, snout, hoof, department, yard, shout, best, driveway, upstairs, boom, couch, house
Lesson 27: took, books, foot, hoof, cook, nook, hood, wood, stood, shook, crook, cookbook, look, good, crooked bookcase, buy, where, tomorrow, water
Lesson 28: cow house, town, shout, down, mouse, found, loud, brown, ground, pound, flower, out, now, towel, pounce, above, enough, should, want
Lesson 29: aim, snail, bay, braid, ray, always, gain, sly, chain, shy, bright, fright, tray, try, contain, thigh, eight, once, your, who.
Lesson 30: seated, keeps, speed, seen, means, clean, groan, roast, bowls, crow, owe, grown, green, snow, peace, below, almost, dear, money, pushed
This Year's Theme-"One Body in Christ"
Chapter 1: Jesus is the Son of God
Key Words: Holy Family, Divine, Blessed Trinity
Chapter 2: Jesus Christ Gives us the Church
Key Words: disciples, apostles, resurrection, church
Chapter 3: We celebrate God's Love
Key Words: Catholics, parishes, faith, worship, sacrament
Chapter 4- Baptism
Key Words- grace, original sin, Baptism
Chapter 5- Confirmation
Chapter 9: God gives us His Laws
Key Words: commandments, Great Commandment, Ten Commandments
Chapter 10: We Follow God's Laws
Key words: free will, sin, mortal sin, venial sin, mercy
Chapter 11: We Prepare for the Sacrament of Forgiveness
Key Words: Penance and Reconciliation, conscience
Chapter 25; We Honor Mary and the Saints;
Key Words: Saints, procession
Chapter 12: We Celebrate the Sacrament of Forgiveness
Key Words: Contrition, Confession,, A Penance, Absolution
Catholic Identity: Morality: Peace and Reconciliation
Read along- The Confession of Grace
Chapter 6: The Church Year
Chapter 7: Ordinary Time
Chapter 13 Advent
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Chapter 14-Christmas
Chapter 8: We Learn about God's Love:
Key Words: Bible, Old Testament, New Testament Gospels
Chapter 15 We Celebrate God's Love
Key words: Mass, Last Supper, communion
Chapter 16 We Gather for the Celebration of the Eucharist
Key Words: Assembly
Chapter 17 We Celebrate the Liturgy of the Word
Key Words; Liturgy of the Word; Psalm, Homily
Chapter 18 We Celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist
Key Words: Liturgy of the Eucharist, Eucharistic prayer
Chapter 20: Lent
Chapter 19: We Go in Peace to Share God's Love
Key Words: Blessed Sacrament, Tabernacle
Catholic Identify Retreat Booklet: Liturgy of the Sacraments
Chapter 21: Three Days
Chapter 27: Easter
Chapter 22: God Calls us to Love and Serve
E.Q. What can we do to love and serve God?
Key Words: Called by God
Chapter 23: The Church Lives Today
EQ How does the church live and grow today?
Key Words: pastor, bishop, diocese, pope
Chapter 24: We Pray
Chapter 26: We Show Love and Respect
Key Words: New Commandment
Catholic Identify - Prayer
Catholic Identity- Creed
THE BOLDED UNIT IS CURRENTLY BEING STUDIED
Unit 1: Work Like a Scientist
Big Idea: Scientists ask questions about the world around them. They find answers by investigating through many methods.
Vocabulary: inquiry skills, science tools, thermometer, investigate, hypothesis, draw conclusions, communicate
Unit 2: Technology in our World
Big Idea: Engineers use a process to design new technology to meet human needs. Technology affects our everyday life and can affect the environment around us.
Vocabulary: engineer, design process, technology and environment
Unit 3: All About Animals
Big Idea: There are many kinds of animals. Animals need certain things to live and grow. Fossils help us learn about animals that lived long ago.
Vocabulary: Shelter, survive, lungs, gill, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, insect, life cycle, reproduce, tadpole, larva, pupa, metamorphosis, dinosaur, extinct, fossil
Unit 4: All About Plants
Big Idea: All plants need certain things to live and grow. Plants have parts that help them grow and change.
Vocabulary: Basic needs, nutrients, flower, seed, pollen, seed, seedling, germinate, cone
Unit 5- Environments and Living Things
Big Idea- Living Things meet their needs in their environment; Living Things change over time.
Vocabulary- environment, food chain, pollen, adaptation, resource.
Unit 6- Earth and Its Resources
Big Idea- Changes can occur to the earth's surface. People need earth's resources like rock, plantsm and water
Vocabulary - earthquake, volcano, flood, weathering, erosion, drought, natural resources, product.
Unit 7: All About Weather
Big Idea: Weather changes from day to day and from season to season.
Vocabulary: weather, temperature, precipitation, wind, weather pattern, water cycle, evaporate, condense, season, irrigate, hibernate, tornado, hurricane, lightning, thunderstorm
Unit 8: The Solar System
Big Idea: Earth is a planet in our solar system. Changes happen on earth and in the sky from day to night.
Vocabulary: planet, solar system, orbit, star, constellation, rotate.
Unit 9: Changes in Matter
Big Idea: Matter can have different properties. Matter can be a solid, liquid, or gas. The properties of matter can change.
Vocabulary: matter, property, mass, volume, solid, liquid, gas, water vapor, condensation, evaporation
Unit 10: Energy and Magnets
E.Q. What is energy? What are Magnets? How strong is a Magnet?
Vocabulary: energy, sound, heat, light, vibrate, pitch, loudness, magnet, pole, repel, attract.
THE BOLDED CHAPTER/UNIT IS CURRENTLY BEING STUDIED
Chapter 1 Families Today and in the Past
EQ- How does life change throughout history?
Chapter 2- People, Places and Nature
EQ- What is the world like?
Chapter 3- Government
EQ- How does government work?
Chapter 4-People who Supply our Goods and Services
EQ- How do people get what they need?
Chapter 5- Making a Difference
EQ- What makes someone a hero?
Chapter 6- Our American Culture
EQ- How is culture shared?