Hello

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Your child should have brought home their turkey art project for your Thanksgiving table!

We have been very busy in second grade this week mastering double-digit addition with and without regrouping. We will soon be learning triple-digit addition. Next week I will send home your child's addition flash cards along with a practice minutes sheet. Please spend 10 minutes every night reviewing addition facts up to 20. This will ensure success for your child's mastery of facts, and it will be easier when they need to apply their knowledge to triple-digit addition.

Please make sure your child reads every night for 20 minutes as well.

We will be singing at the Christmas concert on December 15th at 7:00 p.m. This will take place in the Basilica. Please bring your child to the second grade classroom at 6:30 p.m. They have been practicing almost everyday. Looking forward to seeing everyone that evening!

The second grade is also in charge of our next school mass which is Wednesday, December 8 at 9:00 a.m. It is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Today I will send home what your child is reading at mass, if they are reading. Please have your child practice this at home. We will also be practicing in class.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Miss Julie

The pumpkin patch

Everyone had a great time at the Pumpkin patch. It was a warm day in Half Moon Bay, and we are all very fortunate for such a wonderful experience. Thank you Miss Lam for putting it all together!

Kidquake

Everyone had a great time at Kidquake. Here is a picture of one the authors, Sudipta Bardan-Quallen, who read to us from her book entitled, "Quakenstein." We all had a great time eating lunch and playing at the park. It was a great day in the community of San Francisco.

Meet the Authors

Yesterday the second grade class attended a free literary event called "Kidquake." We met 4 authors: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Nadia Krilanovich, Amy Novesky, and Deborah Underwood, who read to us from their latest children's books. We were also given a bag of books for our class.

Kidquake is the children's event associated with "Litquake." Litquake is the annual San Francisco Literary Festival that brings together a wide range of authors for a week of readings, panel discussions, and interactive events- a lively and inclusive overview of the Bay Area literary scene. Kidquake and Litquake were developed to foster interest in literature and perpetuate a sense of literary community.

The second graders will soon be on their way to being "published authors" in the classroom and will also have a chance to read their own literary creations to fellow students from all grades!

Today they are eager to hear a wonderful story by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, a beautiful hard-cover book she gave to our class entitled, "Quackenstein Hatches a Family."

We ended the day with eating lunch at the park and then the students had fun playing together. I will try to post the pictures soon.