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Week 28 (March 31- April 4)

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 In Literacy this week, we practiced our quick sketching skills and wrote about what we did over the Spring Break.  Later in the week, we learned about a form of poetry called Haiku.  We listened and looked at a couple of exmples and reviewed what syllables are.  Then we planning, drafted and revised our own Haiku poem.  In word work, we learned about air, ear and are making the /air/ sound and learned that the suffix /ed/ can make 3 different sounds when it is added to the base word. In math this week, the grade 2's focused on even and odd number and splitting quanities of items into two seperate groups. The grade 3's began looking at division and learned that it is a way of sharing or splitting up items into equal groups. On Friday, we worked with a partner, doubling or multiplying by 2 numbers to be the first person to remove all the chips from the game board in DOUBLE IT! In science, we began our new unit on Earth Systems. In gym we began out gymnatics unit ...
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Week 27 ( March 17 - 21)

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 Thanks again to all the parents that were able to meet with me during parent teacher conference on Thursday and Friday!!  It was great to share all the growth since January! Happy Spring Break!!! In literacy this week, we learned about revising our writing, using the 3-2-1 Check it!!  After the students wrote about their swimming experiences, they used a special revising pen to read over their writing.  They were looking for convention mistakes, spelling errors, and a sentence they might want to change up.  In word work, we looked at how 'or' and 'ar' can make an 'er' sound in some words.  We also looked at how groups of letters when added to the end of a word (suffix) can change the meaning.  For example, we learned that when /ed/ is added to a verb, the verb becomes past tense. In math this week, we continued working on patterns.  This week, we focused on input and output tables and learning about shrinking patterns.  We build and designed...
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Week 26 ( March 10 -14)

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 In literacy this week, we began working through the writing cycle to write a personal experience about our swimming lessons.  We started with learning a new planning strategy, quick draws to get our ideas down on paper. Next, we learned about organizing our writing and keeping similar ideas together by using our 'organizational drawers'.  In word work, we learned about silent letters, such as, kn, mb and wr.  We also learned about the suffix 's' and how when it is added to words it can make a /s/ sound, a /z/ sound and a /ez/ when es is added. In math, we began working on patterns.  This week, we reviewed what a repeating pattern is and created several repeating patterns with actions and sounds in our table groups.  Next, we looked at growing our increasing patterns.  We learned that they are called infinite patterns, meaning that they can go on forever and forever. We built several patterns with blocks and recorded them in our journals. In Science, t...
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Week 25 ( March 3 -7)

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 Happy Swimming Week! The grade two's and Threes' had a wonderful time swimming and learning how to be safe in the water this week. In literacy this week, we worked on finishing typing up our bullying poem and then completed some simple writing about bees and butterflies.  In word work, we looked at the spelling pattern of ow and ou.   In math this week, we completed some math fluency games to keep up on our basic subtraction skills for the grade 2's and multiplication skills for the grade 3's.  Due to the swimming lessons, we were not able to change and meet up with our math groups. Important Reminders & Upcoming Events: 1. Please,  NO Toys  at school!  2. Library Exchange on  Thursdays . 3. No school on Friday, March 21 4. Parent Teacher conferences will be online this year, please see sign up email coming soon. 5. Please sign up for Healthy Hunger: https://healthyhunger.ca/ Mar 13 - Little Caesars April 24 - Subway May 22- A & W Ju...
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Week 24 ( Feb 24-27)

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 In Literacy this week, we finished our writing about what it would be like to be 100, be reading it over and revising it.  For Pink Shirt day, we focused on writing a poem from different perspectives and then typed it up on the computer.  In word work this week, we looked at the sounds oi, oy.  We added them to our sound wall and worked at spelling words with those sounds in them.  On Thursday, we looked at the morpheme of <s> and how when we add it to the end of words, it makes it plural. In math, we continued our work in our math classes. The grade 3's continued to work on multiplications, they looked at the commutative property, and the property of zero as well as wrote some multiplication stories.  The grade 2's focused on subtraction, using blocks to visualize why we need to regroup when subtracting and then complete some paper and pencil work on using the standard 'stacking' method. In Science this week, the grade 2's finished their musical ins...
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Week 23 ( Feb 18-21)

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In Literacy this week, we wrote our second personal narrative or small moment. This time, we imagined and described what life would be like if we lived to 100 years old.  This was to go along with our 100 days of school activities this week.  In word work, we looked at less familiar vowel teams of, 'ea' that make the short /e/ sound, like head or bread and when a can make a short /o/ sound like in water or swallow.  We also talked about how the 'a' often makes the /o/ sound when it comes after the letter w in words. In math this week, we continued with our math groupings.  The grade 2's worked on skip counting with 100 and adding 3 to 4 numbers at once.  On Friday, we practiced our subtraction skills with the game Salut!! In art this week, we worked on creating a self-portrait of ourselves when we were 100 years old. This artwork will go with our writing about being 100 years old.  We used construction paper, cotton balls and old dollies to create the art p...
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Week 22 ( Feb 10 -12)

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 In Literacy this week, we continued to practice writing complete sentences through authentic writing tasks. We wrote about what we learned on our Field Trip to Studio Bell, thank you cards to our parent volunteers, and sentences about Kindness.  In word work this week we learned about 3 other vowel teams that work together to make the sounds/aw/, aw, au and augh.   In math this week, we continued with our math groups.  The grade 3's are learning about multiplication and how skip counting connects to multiplication.  The grade 2's continued their work on addition, looking at mental math strategies such as decomposing, using making 10 and finding friendly numbers when adding.  On Thursday, we did Valentine's Math with a partner, rolling and adding 2-digit numbers. In Science this week, the grade 2's experimented with soundproofing.  They tested various materials to see which ones worked the best to block out sound, and built their own sound-cancell...
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