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This week in Grade Two

The days seem to be speeding by. Another week has passed, bringing us closer to exciting events.

First on the calendar – Spelling Bee – October 16, 2019 – 8:15 am. Four students were chosen to represent each class; these students and their parents were notified.

Next – one of our favourites – Dress like a book character – November 1, 2019, all students are being asked to participate.

Ideas for book character dress-up https://www.pinterest.com/pin/49258189660830742/

Literacy

Students enjoyed more GRA connections this week and responding to the weekly flip grid questions. We participated in a live weekly twitter, where I asked students the questions and posted them in the twitter group and read the responses from other students around the world. Next week we have a connection with a french school where we will have a translator.

Students learned about long vowel sounds and forming words with the long vowel sounds. Students also started learning about Types of Sentences. We focused on two types of sentences this week – statements and questions. These we will continue to explore next week. Please use the following link to review with your child at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkpJtQy_c_k

Numeracy

We reviewed counting forward by 2s and students are learning to count forward by 5s and 10s, we explored this in various ways, by using manipulatives, doing addition, and a challenge; having a mental math competition.

Please see attached videos, this you may use for practice with your child at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq1kRgz7j0I 

http://skip counting by 5

Students carried out a Literacy and Numeracy Assessments.

Upcoming Assessments and due project

  • Bible
  • Writing
  • Social Studies project

Students will do an in-class Science project. When we return from mid-term break, they will have a Science and a Social Studies Test.

Homework 

As school will be out next week Friday, there are no spelling words this week. Also there is no home work this week, instead students can use the time to work on their Social Studies project, prepare for their bible test and practice “Telling Writing”.

Tips to practice writing:

  • brainstorm and list topics
  • circle the topics you know about, underline the one you think you can get the most information about
  • eliminate the rest
  • make a list of what you know about your topic
  • write a topic sentence
  • add details
  • draw a picture
  • give someone your writing to read
  • make corrections

Science

Students continue to learn about life-cycles. This week we reviewed the life-cycle of an insect and students learned about the life-cycle of a mammal. We will continue to compare and contrast life-cycles noting the differences between the mammal life-cycle (cat) and the insect life-cycle (dragonfly).

Social Studies

Students continue learning about grids. This week we looked at important grids: The Equator, the Lines of Latitude and Longitude- the most important line of longitude; the Prime Meridian. Students are learning the importance of grids although the lines are imaginary. We will continue to explore this topic next week, as we view more videos where airplane and ship systems use grids to navigate location.

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Happy October, we are not in an area where we have changing seasons, but each new month brings us closer to Christmas. It is by far our children’s most favoured time of the year :).

Literacy 

This week we kicked off the Global Read Aloud (GRA), that is one book connects the world. Second grade classes around the world are presently reading the same book – Stella Diaz has something to say. We have two buddy classes; one from Sunbury Ontario which we did a skype with Friday morning, to talk about the book so far and answer questions from this week’s padlet. Our second buddy class is from Deerfield MA. We have a google hangout appointment with that class next Tuesday. Students also participated in this week’s Flipgrid, by responding to the question, “Like Stella compared herself to her beta fish, what animal would you compare yourself to and why?”

We focused a lot on comprehension this week by combining all of what students have learned so far: sequence of events and compare and contrast those events. In grammar, we reviewed writing complete sentences, identifying the subject and predicate and correcting run-on sentences. Next week we will look at types of sentences – exclamation, statement and questions. Please click the links below to review sentences with your child at home, as students prepare for their upcoming tests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4lJze7PnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6thm0FCDGL4

Note: Worksheets sent home for both Numeracy and Literacy are not homework to be returned to school, but to be used as at home practice, to prepare for tests. Worksheets were sent home Friday and additional ones will be sent home next week as well. However if you notice that your child is unable to complete a task please send worksheet back so I can go through that topic again.

We will continue to review all topics next week.

Numeracy

We reviewed previous topics taught. Upon review, some students did not fully grasp the topic of expanded form. We spent some time on the topic this week and will spend more time on said topic Monday and Tuesday and give students an assessment on Friday. Students learned about odd and even numbers. How to group them and identify which are even and which are odd. Next week we will use even and odd numbers in counting (skip counting), counting by twos and threes. Please see links below, you can watch these with your child as a way to review and for the strategies used in class to teach the above mentioned topics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuD5JlrMnAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iQqmmG8wQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AF7xj7pmWc

Science

We reviewed the previous topics done. Students started learning about life-cycles. We will focus on life-cycle of a mammal and an insect next week and have students note the similarities and differences between the two.

Social Studies

Students learned about the two hemispheres the world is divided into and the equator which divides the world into those two hemispheres. They located the Caribbean on a map and was able to tell which hemisphere the Caribbean can be found in and that we are close to the equator.

Bible

This week we studied Moses and the children of Israel in the wilderness. Students learned why and where Moses received the “Ten commandments.” Next week we will learn about respecting authority and the consequences for disobedience, as we focus on Miriam and Aaron by studying Numbers 12, Romans 13, Hebrews 13 and Exodus 20.