Language:
The students were very excited to receive letters from their Pen Pals. They are grade two students from London, Ontario. The children were very eager to write back to their Pen Pals. They had a lot of fun finding comparisons and writing all about themselves. Hopefully your child shared the letter they received with you.
This month our language program has been integrated with our social studies program to include a variety of lessons, activities and read alouds related to Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year.
We are also well into our second read aloud novel study: The Witches by Roald Dahl. The students are really enjoying this book and they are taking great care when working on the novel study.
The students have been enjoying their second Readers Theatre Plays. They all worked very hard on reading with fluency and expression. Each group had an opportunity to perform in front of their peers. All of the groups did a wonderful job!
Math:
We have completed our unit on 2D and 3D shapes. Later this week we will begin our unit on multiplication and division. Towards the end of this week we will be discussing the relationship between repeated addition and multiplication. I encourage all students to learn their multiplication facts. This will give your child a head start to grade three. I would also like to stress the importance of your child memorizing the basic addition and subtraction facts to 20. Some children are very slow to arrive at the answers and are still relying on their fingers. Practice, practice, practice! Please continue to help your child keep up with the IXL units. For the most part, they are directly related to what we are doing in class, and help a lot! Congratulations to our class for receiving an IXL award for answering 20,000 questions on IXL! WOW! That's a lot of questions! Amazing!!!
Please work on the following units on IXL: Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6, Z1, Z2, E16, E17, E18, E19
Science: In Science we have completed our unit on Liquids and Solids and we will soon be starting a new unit on Air and Water.
Absences: Please let the office know if you will be taking your child out of school for any length of time before or after the break. Your child can always keep a journal of their travels and read daily. IXL and RAZ are also great if you have access to the internet.
Mystery Reader:
The children love discovering who our weekly Mystery Reader is. Please sign up for this if you have not done so already. I am happy to accommodate your schedule to ensure each child is surprised by their parent, sibling or grandparent at least one time during the school year.
That's all for now! I will let you know when this blog has been updated again through your child's
agenda.
