Happy long weekend.

This past week, Grade Two spent time revising for upcoming assessments. We will spend time reviewing next week as well.

So far students have completed Grammar and Comprehension assessments and did their last spelling test for the quarter. Please take note of the remaining assessments.

Subjects	Test Dates
Comprehension	January 23
Grammar (Plural and Proper Nouns	January 24
Science	January 28
Math	January 29
Social Studies	January 30

Numeracy

Students are reminded to practice their 2, 5, and 10 times tables. Students started learning about money last week. Each student was given a sheet to get familiar with the coins and paper notes.

Integration

Please give your child empty bags, paper towel rolls, small empty boxes (such as: cereal boxes, toy boxes), empty bottles (such as lotion, water) and or anything that can be recycled. The next two weeks will be of integration. We will be setting up stores in our classroom for students to practice using money, students will name their stores. For Social Studies, Students will learn about direction from one store to the next as each store will be a representation of the five major districts in Grand Cayman. For Science, students will learn about taking care of the environment, learning to recycle and the various things that affects our environment which in turn affects the weather. For Literacy, students will construct their own sentences with proper nouns using the special names they will be learning about. Students will also be learning about collective nouns.

Bible 

We will continue our study on Elijah we will continue to read through the same bible chapters as last week, but more in depth.

 

 

Subjects	Test Dates
Comprehension	January 23
Grammar (Plural and Proper Nouns	January 24
Science	January 28
Math	January 29
Social Studies	January 30

Numeracy

This past week students carried out more subtraction problems by working through worded questions. Friday students carried out a quiz on subtraction.

Next week students will start learning about money. Students will use all of what have been taught to them previously; such as: place value, addition and subtraction. Students will be introduced to using the decimal point in place value.

Please see attached the Numeracy project students are required to work.

Project

Literacy

Students continued learning about nouns. They practiced using proper nouns and plural nouns in writing stories as they wrote their Personal Narratives this week.

In phonics students learned words with common final blends; such as nd, ng, nk, nt, ft, xt, mp.

Note: Please disregard the part on the homework sheet that speaks to comprehension worksheet. We looked at one question as an example, which led to us going through the entire worksheet, and hence students completed that part.

 

Science

Students learned about the contribution of humans on the environment, the importance of recycling, and natural occurrences in the environment that brings about both harmful and helpful changes.

Next week students will start learning about Weather and the different types of climatic conditions.

 

Social Studies

Students continued learning about the the districts of Cayman. Students are learning to identify their surroundings, their neighbourhoods, what is close by, and the direction school is from home.

 

Bible

This week students started learning about their Elijah. They learned of Elijah trusting God in all things and at all times. We will continue our study on Elijah next week as week focus on: 1 Kings 18:1-45, 2 Kings 2:1-11, Psalms 46, and Exodus 20:2-6.

 

Welcome back. Happy New Year, wishing you all God’s continued blessings. I hope everyone had a great Christmas. The students enjoyed sharing their best moments of Christmas break…. And now we are back at it.

Numeracy

As students continue to learn regrouping when subtracting two digit numbers, this week we focused on two methods:

• Subtracting by using a number line, starting with the number we are subtracting and ending with the number we are subtracting from. Then adding the amount of jumps between numbers.
• Subtracting by borrowing from the tens column to the ones.

Please see attachment showing both ways.

Students are to use the methods shown in the pictures when doing their homework. Method A shows how students work it out and the other photo shows the explanation of the working out for parents’ reference and the last photo shows Method B.

Literacy

This week for Phonics we focused on words ending with doubled consonants and words with consonants ‘ck’. Students practiced spelling words with the mentioned consonants, searching for them in the dictionary, using them in crossword puzzles and using them in sentences.

In Grammar students continued learning about Proper Nouns and how to write them correctly. They learned that proper nouns can be special nouns/names; of pets, days of the week, months, place and special things.

For writing; students are learning how to properly organize their thoughts and or ideas on paper, by using a graphic organizer before compiling a story.

In comprehension we focused on using text evidence to help answer questions. Students learned that text evidence are pictures, specific things the writer has pointed out, and the author’s use of the senses.

Science

Students are learning about plants surviving in different environments other than the one it is use to. Students are using a flip chart throughout this unit. This will allow them to write what they want to learn and to predict what they think they will learn. As we do prediction, we are able to integrate Science with Literacy; as students are required to make predictions in comprehension after reading the title of the story. Students will also fill in their flip chart with what they are learning and at the end, what they have learned and then compare with their predictions.

 

Social Studies

Students are learning about the districts of the Cayman Islands. This week we identified the districts and how many they are and named and colour coded them. Students also identified the districts they live in.

Parent and Child homework: Help your child to identify the name of the neighbourhood/street they live in/on and write it down to take to class on Tuesday, when we have our next Social Studies session.

Bible

Students continued learning about David. They learned about David giving thanks to God and how David encourages his people and all people to give thanks to God. Next week we will begin our study on Elijah. Our focus will be on 1 Kings 17: 1-16, Psalm 48, Proverbs 3:5-6.