October 15 - 18, 2024

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! This is the time to reflect on and thank God for our many blessings. I am so thankful to have your children in my class!

Student gmail Account Login Information:

Your child will be bringing home their school board gmail account login information. It will be sent home in the front pocket of their agendas and, for privacy reasons, should not be kept in the agenda. Please place it somewhere convenient at home. This login information can be used by your child at home to log in to our class Hapara Workspace (English). In the beginning, while we get used to using the Workspace at school, I will not post very much on our Workspace. We are just learning how to login to our class Chromebooks.

Our Learning

Language:

This week in Writing, we will continue to learn how to write a personal recount (recounting a personal experience). We use an anchor chart/criteria chart for the features of a recount (title, opening, events, closing/conclusion, past tense verbs, time order and sequence words such as first, next, then, after, finally, the next day ... etc.) to write about something we did on the Thanksgiving weekend. At home, you can help by asking your child to recount an event to you using the order and sequence words first, next, then, after that, finally. In our study of media, we will continue our unit on how to be good digital citizens and how to be safe when using online tools, using the school board's unit: Samaritans on a Digital Road. 

Reading/Spelling: This week, our Grade 2 and 3 UFLI phonics lesson will be about the -ck sound. We have already learned that the letter C and the letter K can say the same sound, /k/. This week, we will learn that the C and K sometimes come together to make this same sound. That is, the grapheme CK says /k/.

We will learn that when we hear the /k/ sound at the end of a word after a short vowel, we spell it with a ck, like at the end of the words duck, rock, black, sick, quack, stick, clock.

Our new heart words for this week will be: goes, says

Please have your child practise the heart words we have learned so far in class: the, I, a, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from, you, what, have, look, book, are, was, your, want, go, no, so, *goes, *says.

**On Friday, we will have a "spelling check-in" so please help your child review how to spell the heart words learned so far. See the list above.

Homework:

This week, your child will bring home some homework. The Grade 2s will bring home UFLI phonics homework to reinforce the learning from the last two weeks' phonics lessons about the FLSZ rule and the -all, -oll, and -ull spelling patterns. The Grade 3s will be given a homework sheet about common nouns and proper nouns to reinforce our learning about nouns from last week. *Please see this video about common and proper nouns here.

Your child's homework will be due back at school on Monday, October 21st. 

Math:

We continue our unit about representing numbers in different ways and place value. In Grade 2, students are learning how to read, represent, compose and decompose whole numbers up to and including 200, using a variety of tools and strategies, including base ten materials, and describe ways they are used in everyday life. So far in Grade 2, we have been focusing on representing 2-digit numbers. In Grade 3, students are learning the same skills but with numbers up to and including 1000. So far, the Grade 3s have been representing 3-digit numbers using base ten materials. 

Link to Grade 2 Parent Summary letter Representing Two-Digit Numbers here

Link to Grade 2 Parent Summary letter Composing and Decomposing Two-Digit Numbers here

Link to Grade 3 Parent Summary letter Representing Three-Digit Numbers here

Important Dates:

Tuesday, October 15 - Grade 2/3 library books due

Tuesday, October 15 - Pizza lunch

Thursday, October 17 - School Thanksgiving liturgy 2:30 p.m.