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.    

May 20, 2022

Dear Families, 

The May Crowning was truly beautiful.  The children were so handsome and gorgeous in their dressy attire.  Thank you to all those who came in to assist the children with changing.  Look for photos on the SMM FB page featuring the second graders in the next week.  The weather cooperated and my husband was able to get a few great drone shots as well.  

A big "Thank You" goes out to all those who sent in supplies or helped to serve our ice cream sundaes on Tuesday.  


Please take a moment to complete and submit the form that was sent to all families regarding the Pizza Lunch on Tuesday, 5/31 hosted by Fr. Kirk.  

The final STAR testing rotation will be administered on Monday, 5/16 and Wednesday, 5/18.  Please make sure your second grader gets a good night's rest and eats a balanced breakfast.  
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Below you will find some second grade events to mark on your calendars.  Our homeroom mothers will be reaching out with opportunites to volunteer or donate needed supplies. 

1. Monday, 5/16-May Crowning Prayer Service.   All Second Graders participate in this service. Those not receiving the Eucharist will be part of the processional and receive a special blessing. We will attempt to take our "Cross" drone shot weather permitting. Group photos can be taken after the mass on the altar.   PLEASE  PRINT AND REFER TO THE INFORMATIONAL ATTACHMENT SENT TO ALL FAMILIES.  

2. Tuesday, 5/17- Ice Cream Sundae Celebration- HR mothers sent out a SUG for supplies and volunteers to scoop and serve.  The time will be 2:00 PM. We will use the outdoor classroom weather permitting, or simply serve in the hallway and eat in our classrooms. 

3. Tuesday, 5/31- 10:00 second grade mass and pizza lunch- Look for form to be completed with your child. Completed forms should be submitted by Monday, 5/23.

4.. Friday, 6/3- Second Grade End- Of -Year Picnic on the rectory lawn.  Students will bring or purchase their own lunch.  A special frozen treat will be served.  The time will be 10:50-12:15.  All families are welcome to stop by to join the festivities.  

Mrs. McKinley has added EPIC to the student Classlink Dashboard. 2A Epic class code is sye2851.  Students will have to enter the class code upon their first attempt. This is a wonderful resource supporting Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies concepts. STUDENTS ACCESS ALL RESOURCES FROM CLASSLINK.  Epic is free during the school day to students because they are included in my educator's membership and linked to my teacher code.  However, students may not access Epic after school hours or on a weekend. 

Information regarding weather related closures was sent home prior to the holidays in the Friday folder.  Google usernames/passwords and the classlink web address are all recorded inside of the homework organizer. There is also an additional copy of your second grader's quickcard.  Please refer to this card and address when logging into classlink.  The tiles displayed will take your child to a variety of learning sites. 
 

 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.  All coats should be labeled with a name.    

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

Friday, 5/13- Spanish and Gym; Lesson 27 evaluations may extend into the week of 5/16.
 SEND IN 4X6 PHOTOS OF YOUR SECOND GRADER IN COMMUNION OR DRESSY ATTIRE. 
 

Week of 5/16

Monday, 5/16-  Lesson 28; STAR MATH- May Crowning- Library; Please refer to May Crowning guidelines that were emailed to parents. 

Tuesday, 5/17- Art; Ice Cream Sundae Special celebration. 

Wednesday, 5/18- Technology; STAR READING;  Science test unit 9  

Thursday, 5/19- Music

Friday, 5/20- Spanish and Gym; Lesson 28 weekly spelling test and assessment

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 27- The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs; La Brea Tar Pits 
EQ- How can you learn about animals that lived long ago?
Comprehension- Fact/Opinion; Author's Purpose
Vocabulary- Shades of Meaning
Phonics and Spelling- Words with "oo" as in book
Grammar- Adverbs
Writing- finish Space reports; opinion paragraphs  

Lesson 28- YeShen; Cinderella 
Comprehension- Compare and Contrast
Vocabulary - Classify and Categorize
Spelling and Phonics- Vowel dipthongs ou, ow
Grammar- Possessives
Writing- Book Review 

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-" 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?