January 26 - 30, 2026

Family Literacy Day - Tuesday, January 27th:

Family Literacy Day takes place every January 27^th to raise awareness about the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy activities with family. (See Link here)

Check out these interesting family literacy statistics and facts.

Scientists in School - Help Please

A message was emailed to parents last week to inform you that Scientists in School will be visiting the Grade Twos in Ms. Vysochyna’s class and Mrs. Maidment’s class on Wednesday, Feb. 4th to give a hands-on workshop entitled I Like to Move It! In order for the workshop to go ahead, we are in need of parent volunteers to help in the classroom from 9:00 a.m. until approximately 11:15 a.m. We currently do not have enough volunteers. Please email me if you have your Vulnerable Sector Check and are available to help us.

On Friday, Feb. 6th from 9:15 until approximately 11:15, Scientists in School will be visiting the Grade Three students in Ms. Lobo’s class and Mrs. Maidment’s class to give a hands-on workshop entitled Strong Structures. We are still in need of a few more volunteers to help the Grade 3s on that date. Please email me if you have your Vulnerable Sector Check and are available to help us.

Thank you in advance for your help with this.

Our Learning

Math

In Grade 2, we will continue to explore how to sort and classify 2-D shapes using their geometric properties (e.g., sides, corners/vertices, angles).

Grade 2 Parent letter Explaining How to Sort and Classify 2-D Shapes

In Grade 3, we will continue our exploration of how we can describe, sort, and compare 3-D solids, including their properties (e.g., faces, edges, vertices, angles, congruence). 

Link to Geometry Vocabulary To Know for Grade 3 here

Grade 3 Parent Letter explaining how to describe 3-D objects here

Grade 3 Parent letter explaining how to sort 3-D objects here

Language

Our reading comprehension focus continues to be an exploration of several features of non-fiction texts (e.g., table of contents, and we will learn more about headings, special font, photographs, diagrams, labels, captions, text boxes, maps, cut-outs/closeups, glossary, and index). This week, the students will look at examples of some of these features in texts and learn how they can be used to help us find information.

This week in our phonics lessons, we will learn about adding the ending -ING to verbs. We add the -ING ending to verbs when we are talking about actions that continuously happen in the present or past. When a verb has the -ING ending, a helping verb comes before it such as:

I am going. We are going.

She was going. They were going.

This week's new heart words: been, into

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, talk, walk, could, should, would, or, for, who, by, my, one, once, use, two, does, many, any, *been, *into.

Important Dates:

Jan. 27 - Family Literacy Day (See Link here)

Jan. 30 - P.D. Day: No school for students