November 4 to 8, 2024

Treaties Recognition Week:

November 3-9 is Treaties Recognition Week in Ontario.Throughout the week, our school will explore the importance of treaties and increase awareness of treaty rights, obligations, and relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Treaties are formal, legally binding agreements (promises) between two separate nations. Treaties between the British Crown (the federal and provincial governments of Canada) and Indigenous peoples were signed and people were promised land reserves, healthcare, schools, and tools, equipment and supplies for hunting, fishing, farming. In return, the government had promises of peace, law, and order. At school, we will learn about the significance of treaty rights, treaty relationships, and their relevance today. We will continue this learning journey throughout November (and throughout the year), as November is Indigenous Education Month at the Ottawa Catholic School Board. For more information about treaties in Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/page/treaties

Our Learning This Week

Math:

We will soon begin our new number unit, Estimating and Comparing Whole Numbers. In Grade Two, we will learn several strategies to compare numbers less than 100 and learn how to locate numbers on partial number lines. We will also learn how to use place-value to order and compare 2-digit numbers.

Grade 2 Parent Summary Letter Comparing Two-Digit Numbers link here

Grade 2 Parent Summary Letter Locating Numbers on a Number Line link here

In Grade 3, our focus will be on rounding a two-digit number to the nearest ten using number lines and base ten materials. We will also learn how to build a number line using a scale. 

Grade 3 Parent Summary Letter Rounding to the Nearest Ten link here

Grade 3 Parent Summary Letter Building a Number Line Using a Scale link here

Language

November 5-11 is National Veterans Week. We will take some time later this week to read about and determine important information about Remembrance Day and peace. We will also learn how to write a postcard to send to our Canadian peacekeepers. Our postcards will be delivered to some of our Canadian peacekeepers.

Our next UFLI phonics lesson will be about unvoiced /th/. Here is a video explaining unvoiced /th/ (also called "voiceless th").

New heart words: were

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, they, their, *were.

Looking Ahead:

November 5 - Library books due

November 7 - National Inuit Day

November 8 -  P.D. Day (no school for students)

November 8 - Indigenous Veterans’ Day

November 11 - Remembrance Day
November 14: Progress Reports available on Parent Portal

November 18-22: Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week