Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday spending time with family and friends! I hope everyone has a happy and healthy 2016.

I would like to thank Viktoria and Cynthia, our wonderful class grade parents, who continue to help coordinate a variety of classroom events.

The children have been enjoying having a Mystery Reader each week. Please sign up if you have not done so already.

Thank you to all of the families who made donations to our Stonegate Family. Your kindness and generosity helped to make the holiday season special for another family.

Thank you to all of the parents who contributed various treats and supplies, to our class parties last term. Several moms organized two very special craft mornings (Halloween and Christmas). The children thoroughly enjoyed making all of the crafts and were eager the share them with their family.

The grade twos have worked very hard since the beginning of the school year and they will continue to work hard learning many new things this term.

 Math – Please continue to review addition and subtraction facts to 20. We will be starting Minute Math over the next couple of weeks in hopes to improve everyone’s speed and accuracy of these basic facts.  If your child is struggling with these facts please help them review them either through drill or by using the IXL program.  During the next week we will be finishing our unit on 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional shapes. I will inform you, later on this week as to what unit we will be working on next.

Science - During the first couple of weeks in January we will be finishing up our unit on Matter. Later on this month we will begin our study on Air and Water.

Social Studies

We will continue learning about many Celebrations and Traditions as they arise throughout the remainder of the school year. In January we will begin a unit on Mapping.

Language: We will be working on letter writing over the next couple of weeks. In reading, the students will be continuing to read books at their instructional level and learning comprehension strategies. We will also continue to work on making connections to what we read. Text-to-text (connecting to something else they have read), text-to-self (connecting to a personal event or experience), text-to-world (connecting to world events). Encouraging these discussions at home after reading or watching something on television would be beneficial.

 Thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning. Please contact me at any time if you have any questions or concerns.

 

Yours in Partnership

Laureen Souter