Month: September 2020

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.