2AD January Calendar

Click the picture below to access our classrooms event calendar for January. 

2AD December Calendar

Click the picture below to access our classrooms December calendar!

November News

We really grew our brains in November

In Language we reviewed and learned these sound friends, we practiced making their sounds, building words and writing about them...

We practiced our comprehension reading strategies of retelling a story- specifically the beginning, middle, end, characters, plot and author's message. We've learned all of our Daily 5 choices- read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, word work and work on writing. We've begun our first big writing task about our Flat Stanley Adventures over fall break. Our printing just keeps getting better everyday! We've reviewed our capital letters and have started to learn about lowercase diver letters. 

In math we finished our measurement unit and completed our show what we know. We continue to grow our brains about how to represent numbers in different ways- using tally marks, with words, pictures, number sentence, number problems, ten frames or by base 10 blocks. We've been practicing our skip counting, increasing, decreasing pattern and ordering numbers too! We can independently complete Daily Math 3 components; math by myself and math with someone. We have just started our Banana Split math to help us grow our mental math and adding and subtracting brains. 

In Science we explored and learned about different kinds of liquids. We had a T-Pet presentation on liquids where we had lots of fun experiments; how dense a liquid is,  the water cycle, evaporation, condensation, the three states of matter and we made our very own slushies. We've started to discuss boats and buoyancy we made our own boats and tested to see if they floated or not. We will end the unit with an inquiry project on why water is essential to life. 

In social we've been talking about the community we live in. We learned our addresses, what city, province and country we live in. At the end of October we had a presentation on Inuit culture. We learned about where they live, what their landscape is like, what they do for fun, the animals that live there and we created our own soapstone Inukshuk. 

We have been discussing the start of the new liturgical year and how we can prepare our hearts for the birth of Baby Jesus. We've been discussing how each one of us belong and how we can share the Good News with those we meet. In October we researched some different Saints. 

Important Items:

-Continue to frequently check FreshGrade for evidence of your child's learning

-See our monthly calendar for important dates for December

-Please complete nightly reading or Lexia for 10-15 minutes 

November Calendar

Click the picture below to access our November calendar. 

2AD October Calendar

Click the picture below to access our calendar for the month of October. 

2AD September Learning

This September we have done a ton of learning about what Grade Two looks like, sounds like and feels like! I think we're going to have an amazing Grade Two journey together! 

In Language we've learned and reviewed our sound friends and have listened to their stories, songs, word work sentences, completed drawing and labeling and made words using their sounds; 

We started practicing our printing skills by using Handwriting Without Tears Program and so far have learned about being right and left handed, printing posture, how to hold a pencil properly and where to start our letters (at the top)! We've so far started to work on our capital Diver letters (P,F, E, B, M, N, R and D). Get your child to show you their fantastic printing skills, we're really growing our printing brains! 

This month we have also started to learn about how to grow our reading brains by doing Daily 5. We've practiced read to self and read to someone! Our stamina is up to 10 minutes, way to go 2AD! 

In Math we've been practicing our calendar skills by completing our Math Morning Meeting, we've also reviewed increasing patterns, skip counting and our graphing skills. We practice our math problem solving skills on Thursdays and our basic math facts on Fun Fact Friday. We've also been learning about Math Daily 3- Math by Myself and have build our stamina up to 6 minutes, we rock!  

In Religion we've been talking about how each one of us are special and unique! We've acknowledged our special gifts that we have to share with one another and how we can be the Hands and Feet of Jesus everyday with everyone we meet! 

Important Items:

-Please make sure you are checking your child's work on FreshGrade, I sent you all confirmation emails please let me know ASAP if you are not able to access your child's work. These are replacing our Evidence of Learning binders so please take the opportunity to have discussions with your child about their learning. 

-Each child in 2AD has a Lexia licence, please make sure your child is using it regularly. If a student is not using it, it will be given to another student in our school. 

-Our morning bell rings at 8:40am please ensure that your child is here at that time as we begin our grade two jobs promptly in the morning. 

-October Calendar and October READO will be sent home next week! Your child should be reading or working on Lexia for 10-15 minutes nightly. 

Minion of the Week Star Student Schedule and Information

Click the minion picture below to see our Minion of the Week Schedule and events that will be taking place during their special week!