October 14 - 17, 2025

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!

Our Learning

Math:

We have almost completed our Grade 2 and Grade 3 units on patterning (repeating patterns with changing attributes, and increasing and decreasing number patterns). Both grades will complete an assessment of their learning later this week. Our next Math unit for both grades is about representing numbers. In Grade 2, students will learn 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. In Grade 3, students will focus on the same skills but with numbers up to and including 1000. Both grades will also explore what makes a number odd or even.

Language:

This week in Writing, we will review 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:

Our next UFLI phonics lesson is about the digraph sound /wh/, at the beginning of a word, as in the words which, whim, whip, when, whiz, and the digraph sound /ph/, as in the words phone, graph, Phil, Steph.

This week's Heart Words: were, walk, talk, could, would, should

Please also review the following "heart words" that your child would have learned last year: the, I, a, and, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from, you, what, have, look, book, are, was, your, want, go, no, so, goes, says, she, we, they, their, *were, *walk, *talk, *could, *would, *should.

**Next Monday, 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 digraphs. 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 20th. 

Important Dates:

Tuesday, October 14 - Pizza lunch

Thursday, October 16 - School Thanksgiving liturgy 1:00 p.m.

Friday, October 17 - Grade 2/3 library books due

Monday, October 20th - Grade 2/3 homework due and Spelling check-in