Second Grade - Mrs. Birnbryer

Contact Information- mary.birnbryer@bdms.org

Mrs. Melissa Broe, Teaching Assistant

  BLESSING

May your spirit be open and perceptive in discovering the will of God for you.  May your prayer be that of wisdom, guidance and a deeper understanding of God's way for you.    (Lk 1:26-38)

Summer Required Reading

Fantastic Mr. Fox- by Roald Dahl

Please finish this book by the beginning of second grade because Mrs. Birnbryer has a lot of fun activities planned that are based on its content!

(Along with this book, please try to read 3 others. Some highly recommended books, which are also excellent choices for reading aloud to your children, include:

"Tintin in Tibet" by Herge (Gr. 2-4)

"Call It Courage" by Armstrong Sperry (Gr. 2-6)

"Chocolate Fever" by Robert K. Smith (Gr. 1-5)

"Freckle Juice" by Judy Blume (Gr. 2-5)

"Heart of Ice" by Benjamin Appel (Gr. 1-6)

"The Littles" by John Peterson (Gr. 1-4)

"The Magic Finger" by Roald Dahl (Gr. 2-6)

"Wigger" by William Goldman (Gr. 1-5)

"The Witch of Fourth Street" by Myron Levoy (Gr. 2-5) )

 Welcome to second grade and a wonderful school year filled with friends, experiences, adventures, promises and possibilities.

I believe every child will succeed. In second grade every child will be prepared for test day and every day of their lives.

The second grade RELIGION program prepares the children for their first celebration of the sacraments of Penance and Eucharist.

The READING/LANGUAGE ARTS program focuses on the development and encouragement of fluent readers, articulate writers and speakers, and discerning listeners and viewers.

The MATH program stresses the child's need to know basic facts and skills, and provides reading strategies for problem solving. Skills areas covered are Numbers and Graphing, Addition and Subtraction, Place Value, Money, Time, Numbers to 1,000, Measurement, Geometry and Fractions, Multiplication and Division concepts.

The SCIENCE program is based on the National Science Education Standards and NY State Science Framework. The second grade skills areas are Live Science - Plants, Animals, Fossils; Physical Science - Matter, Sounds, Heat, and Light, Force, Magnets and Electricity; Earth Science - The Earth, Weather and Seasons, The Solar System; Human Body - How Your Body Works, Nutrition, Keeping Healthy.

The SOCIAL STUDIES program helps the children explore their world and see how they can contribute as individuals. The key Social Studies strands are Citizenship, Culture, Economics, Geography, Government, History, Science and Technology.

CLASS SCHEDULE WEEKLY
Physical Education
Library (split classes)
Technology (split classes)
Music (split classes)
Art (split class)
Spanish

TEXTBOOKS
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS (PHONICS, SPELLING,
GRAMMAR, CREATIVE WRITING)
Scott Foresman
"New Beginning"
"My Time to Shine"

MATH
Sadlier
"Math Millennium Edition"

RELIGION PROGRAM
Sadlier 2004
"We Believe"

SCIENCE PROGRAM
Scott Foresman
"Science"

SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAM
Scott Foresman
"People and Places"

FIELD TRIPS