Week of February 9 - 13th, 2026

 Valentine's Day Celebration - Friday, February 13   

Just a reminder that on Friday, February 13, we will celebrate Valentine's Day at school. Your child is invited to wear red, pink, or white and is welcome to bring in Valentine cards to hand out if they wish. Your child should bring in a card for each student in our class if they choose to bring in cards.

A class list of first names will be emailed to each parent to help your child label their Valentine's Cards. 

Our Learning

Math:

We will finish up our units on 2-D Geometry (Grade 2) and 3-D Geometry (Grade 3). We will explore how to compose and decompose shapes.

Link to Parent Summary Letter about Composing 2-D Shapes

Link to Parent Summary Letter about Decomposing 2-D Shapes

Link to Parent Summary Letter about Composing and Decomposing 3-D Solids

Language:

During our phonics lessons, we will review what we have learned about open and closed syllables and compound words.

A closed syllable has only one vowel and the vowel is followed by one or more consonants. The vowel sound is short. Examples of closed syllables include hop, kick, fast.

Open syllables have only one vowel and the vowel is the last letter in the syllable. In an open syllable, the vowel is long. Examples of open syllables include hi, go, she.

A compound word is a longer word made up of two smaller words. We can combine two closed syllables to make longer words made up of two smaller words (compound words).

Examples of compound words with two closed syllables are:

sunset (sun + set)

stepdad (step + dad)

hotdog (hot + dog)

backpack (back + pack)

cannot (can + not)

himself (him + self)

This week's new heart word: *because

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, friend, *because.

Our next Spelling check-in will be on Tuesday, February 17th.

Important Dates:

February - Black History Month

Wednesday, Feb. 11 - Report Cards and IEPs available on Parent Portal

Thursday, Feb. 12 - St. Gabriel Winter Olympics Day

Friday, Feb. 13 - Grade 2/3 Class Valentine's Day celebration

Monday, Feb. 16 - Family Day: No school

Feb. 17-21 - Kindness Week