Fantastic Fall Break/Learning Update

Hello Grade 2 Families,

We hope that your fall break has been wonderful and restful.  As we (Ms. McGill & Ms. Rahal) think about next week, we want to update you on all the wonderful learning from the past 2 weeks and what will be coming after the break!

By the end of last week your child should have been able to:

Math: 

• Identify how many tens and ones there are in a given number, and represent that number in various ways.  For example...
•  Pictorally: Represent a number using the new strategy we learned (see image).  The purpose of this new strategy is to allow students to complete this task more efficiently.
• Concretely: Represent a number using the tens and ones blocks.  We found that most of our students needed practice counting by tens.  The tens blocks help with this because the students can pick one up and see that it has ten as they count!

Social Studies

• Explain what a body of water is, and identify the various types of bodies of water that are found across Canada, including rivers, ponds, lakes, and oceans.  

Science

• Tell you which items are attracted to magnets and which items are repelled by magnets, including that magnets attract and repel to and against each other.  

Literacy

• Explain that a noun is a person, place or thing.
• Write a sentence using uppercase letters on all proper nouns (names, names of places, names of things).
• Check out this page for some great examples!  https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/nouns/proper-noun/

Coming up after the break:

• We will be transitioning away from our current spelling tests and towards literacy groups.  The grade 1s and 2s will be split between Ms. Genno, Ms. Gibb, Ms. Rahal, & Ms. McGill.  Students will be placed in a group with one of the above teachers based on their ability to identify letter sounds and decode words.  Within these groups, the students will be given the opportunity to practice reading and spelling words with the sounds that are being focused on for that week!  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
• Practicing our basic math facts using linear measurement!