Meet the Teacher

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 sixth 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.    

October 22, 2021

Dear Families, 



 Letters indicating your child's STAR result  were included in last week's Friday folder.  These reports can be kept at home and do not have to be signed or returned.  Please remember that this format was very different from the early literacy and math tests taken in first grade.  Renaissance Learning- STAR Reading and STAR Math is a standardized testing program for screening and progress monitoring.  The data gathered will guide instruction, identify strengths and weaknesses, and bridge the gaps in learning.  The testing format is computer adaptive with questions geared to performance level. STAR reports are part of a student's file, but are not factored into trimester grades.  The next testing rotation occurs in February.  Scores can be expected to improve throughout the year. 

Halloween is just around the corner.  We are excited and grateful that the students can once again participate in the Halloween parade on Friday, 10/29 at 2:00.  There are guidelines in place that do not allow a party with food served in the classroom.  Look for a SUG to be pushed out by our homeroom mothers with opportunties for volunteers. Each second grader will bring home a take home treat bag. We are limited to 3 volunteers to assist your child with costuming.  For that reason, costumes should be kept simple and easy to slip on without any assistance.  I kindly ask that all props stay at home and that no child need any assistance with makeup. Save all the "extras" for out -of -school Halloween celebrations.  Please communicate these guidelines at home so that children are not disappoinited for their school participation.  

SMM students are also asked to dress up as a Saint for our school mass on Monday, 11/1.  Once again costumes must be kept very simple and should be easily slipped overtop of the regular school uniform.  I will send home a name tag so that your second grader can label their costume with their saint's name.  I will also ask that each child know two facts about the saint they chose.  

 

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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 even in warm temperatures. 

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.  There is assigned seating for tracking purposes.  Three students can sit at one table which allows for empty chairs and extra spacing.  Afternoon snack will always be shared outside.  
 

 2A Specials Schedule

Monday- Library
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Technology
Thursday-Music
Friday- Spanish and Gym

Wednesday, 10/20- Technology- Simon Eye screening- Science test unit 2  

Thursday, 10/21- 1/2 day- dismissal at 11:45-  Music; Parent conferences in the evening

Friday, 10/22- Spanish and Gym- Spelling test and weekly graded activities. Pink tag day to support breast cancer awareness month.  The children should wear sneakers as they have gym class. 
 

Week of October 25th

Monday, 10/25- 11:45 dismissal; Afternoon conferences.  Library; Lesson 8 in our reading series.

Tuesday, 10/26- Art

Wednesday, 10/27- Technology

Thursday, 10/28- Music

Friday, 10/29- Spanish and Gym; Halloween parade 2:00

MATH:  The bolded chapter is the concept we are currently studying. 

Chapter 1 Apply Addition and Subtraction Concepts
Essential Question: What Strategies can I use to add and subtract? 
Vocabulary- count back, count on, difference, doubles, fact family, missing addend, near doubles, related facts, subtract, sum

Chapter 2 Number Patterns-
Essential Question: How can equal groups help me to add?
Vocabulary- array, equal groups, even, odd, repeated addition, skip count

Chapter 3 Add Two Digit Numbers
Essential Question:  How can I add two digit numbers? 
Vocabulary- addends, sum, add, regroup

Chapter 4 Subtract Two Digit Numbers 
Essential Question:  How can I subtract two-digit numbers?  
Vocabulary- Difference, fact family, sum  

Chapter 5:  Place Value
Essential Question:   How can I use place value?  
Vocabulary:  compare, digit, equal to, expanded form, greater than, hundreds, less than, ones, place value, tens, thousand

Chapter 6 : Add Three digit numbers 
Essential Question: How Can I add three digit numbers? 
Vocabulary- ones, regroup, sum, tens

Chapter 7: Subtract Three Digit Numbers
Essential Question: How can I subtract three digit numbers?
Vocabulary- difference, ones, regroup, subtract, tens 

Chapter 8   Money: 
Essential Question:  How do I count and use money? 
Vocabulary:  cent, dime, dollar, penny, quarter, nickel, $

Chapter 9 Data Analysis
Essential Question:  How can I record and analyze data? 
Vocabulary:  bar graph, data, key, line plot, picture graph, survey, symbol, tally mark,

Chapter 10; Time
E.Q.; How do I use and tell time?
Vocabulary:  a.m., analog clock, digital clock, half hour, hour, hour hand, minute, minute hand, p.m., quarter hour

Chapter 11:  Customary and Metric Length 
E.Q.  How can I measure objects? 
Vocabulary: centimeter, estimate, foot, inch, length, measure, meter, yard

Chapter 12:  Geometric Shapes and Equal Parts 
E.Q.: How do I use shapes and equal parts?
Vocabulary:  angle, cone, cube, cylinder, edge, face, fourths, halves, hexagon, parallelogram, partition, pentagon

Lesson 6- Animals Building Homes; Whose Home is This?
Comprehension- Text and graphic features 
Vocabulary- prefixes "un" and "re"
Spelling and Phonics- final blends
Grammar- More plural nouns 
Writing- informational

Lesson 7- The Ugly Vegetables; They Really Are Giants!
Comprehension- Conclusions/ Story Structure
Vocabulary- Homophones
Phonics and Spelling- double consonants and ck
Grammar-Proper Nouns
Writing- Informational



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, our, through, were, young

Target Vocabulary
 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-" Companions on the Journey"- Spirtual Works of Mercy

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

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
E.Q.  What are some ways to pray and worship God?
Key Words:  prayer, temple

Chapter 26: We Show Love and Respect
Key Words: New Commandment

Catholic Identity- Creed
Catholic identity - Liturgy and Sacraments 

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?