First Week Update

The first week of Grade Two was a great success! Hopefully all of you have taken some time to review the detailed letters that were sent home last week. I hope that I was able to address most of the questions you may have about how our classroom works. Thank you for taking the time to fill in valuable information regarding your child on the Student Information form.

I have been encouraging the children to bring their parent/caregivers by our classroom to show them around. This can be done before or after school. You will also have an opportunity to visit our classroom on Curriculum Night/Corn Roast which is this Tuesday September 10, 2019.

This month the Character Trait is Respect! We have been reading several books with themes relating to respect and we also created a classroom chart with our ideas about what Respect looks/sounds like.

Last week we also made a list of Classroom Agreements which will help to ensure our classroom is a safe, secure and happy place to learn. Each student signed the list of Agreements to show they have agreed to follow our Classroom Agreements.

If your chiId is interested in participating in Cross Country, the first practice will be on Tuesday, September 10th. Cross Country will be every Tuesday, Thursday at 8:15. Exercise is a great way for your child to start their day! I will be outside ever morning cheering the kids on as they are running around the Shale Pit.

In the next couple of weeks I will be sending home your son/daughter's login information for IXL and RAZ. I strongly encourage everyone to explore these wonderful learning tools.

We will begin our Spelling Program next Monday. The students will write these words in their planner and we will have a weekly spelling test on Fridays. Once the words have gone home, your child will be accountable for spelling these words correctly in their daily writing. Quite often children do very well on the weekly spelling test however the words may still be spelled incorrectly in their daily writing. Your child will be encouraged to use our Word Wall, Word Wiz Dictionaries and Word Cards to ensure these words are spelled correctly in their daily work.

In Social Studies we will begin to discuss Traditions and Celebrations. We will be starting with birthdays. We will be comparing how families celebrate birthdays in different ways. Traditions and Celebrations will be an on-going theme throughout the year.

In Math, we will be working on the hundreds chart and number lines. Later this month we will begin a unit on Data Management. The students will learn how to make graphs. Your child will work with a partner and came up with a question with four possible answers. Then they will survey the class and create a graph using the information from their survey.

In Language we will working on writing complete sentences.

We are looking forward to our Terry Fox Walk  at the end of the month. Just a reminder, everyone is welcome to join our walk.

That's all for now! Your child will let you know when this blog has been updated by writing a note in their planner.