This week in Grade Two.

In your child’s folder you will find:

• Homework
• Spelling words
• mathletics details is stapled to the folder

Epic code: itd6638

Literacy:

Grammar– we completed the topic of ‘Types of Sentences’ this week. Sentences is a continuous practice, as, in all areas students must write in complete sentences. Next week students will start learning about ‘Nouns’.

Phonics – This week we focused on the long vowels ‘a’ and ‘i’. Next week our focus will be on long vowels o, u, e.

Comprehension – Students are learning to think through the text. Taking a closer look at the story or non-fictional information and understanding what is being written about.

Writing – This week we completed the type of writing; “Expository Writing”. Next week students will be learning about Narrative Writing.

Oral Communication – Students are learning how to verbally make presentations through oral book summary. On Mondays students will orally summarize their library books or a book of their choice. They will tell the name of the author, the title of the book, the main characters, their favourite part of the book and why. Books should be read prior to Monday’s class. Please see rubric, showing what an oral book summary entails. This rubric will be used to grade students as well. You will be notified when an oral presentation will be graded. Please click the following document Oral book summary rubric

Numeracy – This week we completed the topic 100 less and 100 more. Next week students will start learning about ‘comparing and ordering whole numbers between 0-999.’

Science – we continue to look at forces. This week we completed the topic of gravity and started the topic of magnetism. Next week will continue to explore the topic of magnetism.

Social Studies – Students continue to learn about ‘The Cayman Islands as part of the world. At the end of this topic students will be able to locate; the Continents, the Caribbean and The Cayman Islands within the Caribbean on a map.

Bible – students continue to learn about Moses and his family. Next week we will explore Moses receiving the ten commandments.

Dear Parents,

In your child’s folder you will find:

• Pratice Terra Nova test papers that were done in class
• Spelling test to be signed and returned on Monday

Update:

This week we spent preparing for next week testing.

We spent time reviewing letter sounds of short and long vowels, by breaking our CVC words apart and finding their similar sounds.

We spent time going through comprehension questions.

Refreshing what students already know by using number lines, addition and subtraction in working with 10 less and 10 more.

Carrying out Terra Nova practice tests.

Social Studies Project due October 16th. Project 1

Terra Nova:

Test days are October 5 – 9, 2020. Teacher will be reading the questions and options to students. Please send 2 number 2 hb pencils with your child.

There is no homework nor spelling words this week, so students can focus completely on Terra Nova.

Tips:

• Students should go to bed on time
• Get ample rest
• Stay hydrated
• Receive calming words
• Eat a healthy breakfast

 

This week in Grade Two:

We spent time doing revision of the following topics:

Literacy

• Grammar – Parts of the Sentence
• Comprehension – reading to locate information and sequencing.
• Numeracy – Place Value and the Expanded Form
• Science – Force and Motion
• Bible – Abraham

Students did assessments on these topics after review. Due to the assessments done this week, their Spelling Test is postponed until next week Friday, October 2nd. Woohoo an extra week to prepare. Please have students practice the words that were sent home last.

In Phonics we reviewed short vowel sounds and continue to work with words with the CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant) pattern.

In preparation for the Terra Nova Exam, students also did a Practice Test.

In your child’s folder you will find: Social Studies Project

Social Studies Project is also attached here incase it is misplaced. Project 1

Please login in to Seesaw at http://app.seesaw.me to have your child complete his/her homework.

 

The Week Ahead

Grammar – Students were introduced to two types of Sentences; Statement and Question this week and we will continue to explore that next week.

Science – We will continue to explore the topic of Force and Motion as students learn about Gravity.

Numeracy – Identify numbers 10 more and 10 less 

Bible – Students were introduced to Moses this week and we will continue our study on him next week.

Reminders:

• P.E. Days – Wednesday and Fridays
• Picture Days – Class Photos – Thursday October 1st and whole school photo, Friday, October 2nd.
• Please support the Charleston Wrap by sending emails to get friends and family to make purchases.

Have a great weekend.

 

It is a joy to watch these little brains at work. Our grade two students are resilent and are capable of so much more than we may realize at times.

Our daily reminder is: ‘You are brilliant and you have the ability to achieve great things.’

In your child’s folder you will find:

• Math and Literacy homework to return Friday, September 25th
• Spelling list
• Book to read over the weekend for our ‘Let’s talk about books’ section on Monday.
• Bible Test study guide
• Science material to review, please use along with this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfeVlNL7d9U The science material that students have brought home, is what we have been going through in class and will also review next week before the test.

Please Note: Students will received the corrected spelling test on Monday for Parents to sign and return on Wednesday.

Updates

Literacy:

We celebrated Roald Dahl day and students were treated to their teachers dressing up as a character from the Roald Dahl novel being read in class. Grade Two’s novel is ‘George’s Marvelous Medicine’.

Students carried out a STAR Reading test.

Phonics – Students continue to learn about CVC words. Students identified words with CVC patten, practiced spelling them and a part of Grammar using them to make simple sentences.

Grammar – Students continue to learn about ‘The Sentence’; identifying the two parts of a sentence and making their own simple sentences, ensuring their sentences have a naming part and an action part.

Comprehension – Students continue to develope the technique of listening and reading to locate information and putting events from stories in correct order. This integrated into Bible, as this week bible activities included students listening to the story readings and locating information to respond to questions and sequencing events correctly.

Writing – This week continued learning how to organize information to order writing correctly. They used the process of elimination to select a topic, use their graphic aid to plan their writing and then wrote two paragraphs (including introduction and supporting details).

Bible:

Please see the following bible study guide to review with your child for an assessment next Thursday.Abraham Study guide

Numeracy: 

Students carried out a STAR Math test.

Students continue learning about Place Value. This week we explored the expanded form, changing from standard form (343) to the expanded form (300+40+3) and vice versa. Please review the following video with your child.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AF7xj7pmWc     If you would like to challenge your child you can continue through to the thousands aspect of the second video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPmphM8JoQY

Science:

Students continue to learn about force and motion. This week we reviewed their homework about ramps and discussed and noted the common factors in the videos. Students will carry out an assessment next Wednesday before we move on to another aspect of force motion (Gravity).

Social Studies

As we continue to explore the topic Finding our Way, which will lead into our other topic of study ‘Where we are and where are we going’. Students will receive a Social Studies project on Monday.

 

 

 

It is a joy to watch the daily achievements of the students. They continue to improve each day.

Homework:

• Numeracy and literacy homework to completed and returned on Wednesday, September 16th.
• A new spelling worksheet has been sent home for students to review for their spelling test next Friday.
• Students are required to read the book brought home or their own books and tell two things they remember from what they read.
• Please log in to seesaw to see additional assignment.

N.B Please sign and return on Monday, September 14th, the graded spelling test sent home with your child/children.

Update: This week we explored the following:

Literacy: 

Phonics: We reviewed vowels and paid attention to the pattern of vowels and consonants in words. The pattern we are looking at is the CVC pattern (Consonant Vowel Consonant), examples – 1. mat 2. tiptop.

Grammar: Subject and Predicate. Our main focus was on the Predicate and identifying the complete sentence with both parts.

Spelling: Students practiced decoding words by their letter sounds, and putting words into alphabetical order.

Writing: Students learned how to plan an expository writing, by using a graphic aid outlining step by step what they need to write.

Numeracy:

This week students worked with manipulatives and diagrams to represent place value. Students also used the place value table to do addition. They were introduced to the hundreds value, which we will concentrate on next week and writing numbers in expanded form.

Students will also receive a times table sheet to practice the two and five times tables.

 

Social Studies:

Students learned about using a map for direction and the different aspects of a map.

Bible:

We concluded our study about Abraham and his family.

 

Wishing you all a restful weekend.

Students will read the assigned books on epic and respond to the questions at the end for both numeracy and Literacy. Unfortunately you will receive two separate email notifications from epic as two books are assigned.

If you have not yet done so, please respond to the invite sent from http://getepic.com and sign up your child so he or she can be all caught up. Please also remember to sign up your child for seesaw, if you are having issues accessing the site. Please use this link https://app.seesaw.me select student and follow the steps.

It is important that you set up a seesaw account for your child, that is the site I will be using going forward. Students will be able to write their answers there instead of you having to take pictures and post them, students will be able to respond via a video or audio if they are unable to produce written work, I will do video explanations and give instructions. With this all or most class work will be in one place. Videos are posted daily of the novel we were reading in class, students will be able to listen in here.

Please see seesaw for class work for music from Ms. Janelle, if you have any questions please send her an email janelle@sparkcayman.com

Parents if you need to set up for your child the night before or early the next morning. The blog will be live from 9 pm, this way you can see what need to be done for the next day and open those web pages for your child. The epic books notifications  will also be sent at that time. You still won’t receive the blog email until the morning, but you can access the latest blog post through the link in my email signature.

I will be using an additional website to make the teaching learning process easier. This is a simpler website, I will be able to post videos to students and have students respond to class work either by written responses or videos. Through this medium I will be able to assign students a grade and respond to their responses.

Upon receiving this blog notification you will receive another email with the code to have your child sign in to SEESAW the website that I will be using.

While Wednesday was very overwhelming, I will make the coming days more manageable.

Please use Thursday and Friday to complete the lesson posted on Wednesday.

A book is assigned on epic for students to read. You should receive the notification once you have accepted the invite and sign up your child on getepic.com

Please see attached Spanish lesson from Ms. Francis   Spanish lesson

Subjects	Dates
Bible	March 10
Comprehension	March 11
Numeracy	March 16
Grammar	March 17
Science	March 18
Social Studies	March 19
Phonics	March 20

What students are learning:

Literacy:

• Verbs – in the present, adding -es to make verbs plural and adding -ing to verbs to show that the action is continuing.
• Phonics – word endings -ed, -ing, understanding that these endings are most times added to verbs show past tense or continuous tense. Transitioning from base words to using the mentioned word endings.
• Comprehension – author’s purpose, knowing the difference between fact and opinion
• Writing – Opinion writing:- sub topic- Persuasive writing. Writing to persuade the reader by building on your opinion and adding factual details.
• Reading to encourage building comprehension skills, through oral comprehension – book being read by teacher – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, questions asked orally, oral response given by students.

Numeracy

Fractions –

• representing fractions by diagrams
• representing fractions as part of a set
• continuous review of money
• practicing time tables – 2, 3, 5, 6, 10 (please also do so at home)

Science 

The phenomenon of weather. Students make predictions in their science journals, carry out experiments, documents their observations, note if their predictions were correct, note what they can do differently to get a different outcome or the same outcome depending on what was required.

Science Fair

Please see attached information for science fair, all students are required to participate as their science fair entry will be a part of their final class grade for science.  2020 FBCS science fair schedule and categories

Science Fair rubrics (3)

Social Studies

Students explored are learning about the three different iguanas found in the Cayman islands, titled ‘Three Different Iguanas, Three Different Islands.’ This week our focus was on the Blue Iguana.

Please Note

Homework is due Monday March 9, 2020- this will enable timely review for tests. Please ensure that your child completes his/her homework and take it to school on Monday.

Apologies for the late post.

Literacy

In Grammar, students learned about verbs. We looked at verbs in the present tense. Students are learning that an action done by a person or a thing is classified as a verb. Students will continue learning about verbs this week, we will put together what has been taught so far. We will review subject, predicate and nouns; students will be reminded that a complete sentence consists of a subject (the naming part, which has the noun) and the predicate (the action part which has the verb). Phonics- Students are learning about base words and -ing and -ed endings.

For writing students continue to learn about opinion writing and how to write an opinion and add supporting details. In comprehension, we continue to explore the author’s purpose and identifying the main idea in a text.

Numeracy

In Numeracy students will continue to practice using money as we have our in-class shop going for the remainder of grade two. Students will continue carrying out exercises to become more familiar with the U.S dollar currency as that is what they will be tested on for the Terra Nova exam. We will continue practicing addition and subtraction of money. Students will carry out a short assessment on Tuesday on what we have done with money so far. On Wednesday we will move on to fractions (students homework sheet says Monday, that was my mistake.)

Science 

As students continue learning about Weather, this week students will carry out experiments to investigate how some weather phenomenons occur, such as: lightning, thunder storms and tornadoes.

Social Studies

We will explore the different accents of the Cayman Islands and the impact of other nationalities on the accents. We will continue to explore the districts and what is indigenous to each district.

Bible

Students will continue learning about Esther, we didn’t get through much of the story of Esther last week as we had several activities in the mornings. The readings scheduled for last week will be used this week.

We ended Quarter 2 on January 31st and began a new quarter February 3rd. Students were not given homework or spelling words last Friday as we started new topics this week.

Numeracy

Students continue learning about money. This week we focused on subtracting and adding. Students had practice working out math problems consisting of subtraction or addition of money. Please have your child continue to work on getting familiar with: the money pictures, value and names. We have shops set up in our classroom each day so students can also learn through real life experiences of working with money.

Thank you for sending in your empty containers. We now have enough to share among students to keep our lessons ongoing.

Please be reminded that the numeracy project is due on Wednesday February 12. Numeracy project

Literacy

In phonics students learned more about blends, using th, ph, sh, ch to form familiar words and transition to longer words. For Grammar students are learning about collective nouns for people, animals and things. In comprehension, we will be focusing on, the author’s purpose; for example, why he/she wrote about a particular topic, students will also explore how to write out their opinions, such as; why the characters do a particular action. Students will explore Opinion Writing further, as this will be our focus in writing this quarter.

Students resume taking home books each day from Monday – Thursday, book logs are to be handed in on Friday mornings with a parent signature. Book logs record what students read on a daily basis, therefore students are required to document what was read based on the questions asked each day.

 

Science

Students are leaning about weather. Students learned about the different types of clouds and their importance. Students also learned about flooding, the impact of pollution on drains and the environment when it rains. Next week our focus will be on thunderstorms.

 

Social Studies

Studies continue learning about the districts of The Cayman Islands, specially the districts of Grand Cayman. Why visitors come the Cayman Islands. The view of Cayman throughout the world, and making connections.

 

Bible

This past week we studied Nehemiah and his important work rebuilding the city walls and gate. Students learned that just like Elijah, Nehemiah listened to God and obeyed.

Next week our study will be about Esther. Verses you can read with your child during your daily devotions to prepare for next week: Esther 1 -2, Proverbs 1, 8, 9, 19, Psalm 1 and 111.