December 1st - December 5th, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed some of the events going on in the communities! It is hard to believe we are into the month of December! There will be lots of excitement in the hallways in the coming weeks. We are busy preparing for our Christmas concert happening next week at GSP!
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
MUSIC - Monday, Wednesday, Friday
LIBRARY - Wednesday, Thursday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/Perseverance
ART - Christmas Theme
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
Interactive Read Aloud -
WRITING - Christmas Stories! We will be reading lots of Christmas stories to generate ideas. Students will plan a story with a problem and solution. Then they will write a fiction story using some of the craft moves we learned in our personal narrative unit. We are looking forward to these fun stories!
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Continuing Unit 5 - This unit focus's on multi syllable words, compound words, and using 'ic' at the end of a multisyllable word, and suffixes ful, less, ment, ness, ish, en, able
Trick Words: knew, know, against, often, once, always
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins, ordinal numbers, estimating numbers to 100 using a referent of 10, understanding place value, comparing numbers using signs < > =, ordering numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest, *equal and unequal sets
Mental Math Strategies - making 10, doubles, doubles plus one
Foundational Learning/Outcome Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4, N6, N7, N10, PR2, PR3
HOMEWORK
READ - Monday, Thursday
MATH -
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night - knew, know, against, often, once
Important Dates:
December 6- Breakfast with Santa
December 10 - Grade 2 Christmas Concert performances-1:00pm & 4:30pm
December 19 - Last Day of 2025 for students
November 24th - November 28th, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you all had a great weekend. Thank you for coming to parent teacher interviews - It was so nice to meet with you all to discuss your child's progress in grade 2. I am lucky to work with a great bunch of kiddos each day!
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
MUSIC - Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
LIBRARY - Tuesday, Wednesday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/*Perseverance
ART - Christmas Theme
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
Interactive Read Aloud - The Littles
WRITING - We will be doing some reading responses and free writing this week. Next week we will be starting a Christmas story writing unit!
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Starting Unit 5 - This unit focus's on multi syllable words, compound words, and using 'ic' at the end of a multisyllable word
Trick Words: knew, know, against, often, once
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins, ordinal numbers, estimating numbers to 100 using a referent of 10, understanding place value, comparing numbers using signs < > =, ordering numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest, *equal and unequal sets
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4, N6, N7,
HOMEWORK
READ - Monday, Thursday
MATH -
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night - knew, know, against, often, once
Important Dates:
Wednesday, November 26th - report cards go home
December 6- Breakfast with Santa
December 10 - Grade 2 Christmas Concert performances-1:00pm & 4:30pm
December 19 - Last Day of 2025 for students
November 17th - November 21st, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you all had a great weekend. I am looking forward to seeing you all at parent teacher interviews this week :)
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
MUSIC - Tuesday, Thursday
LIBRARY - Monday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/*Perseverance
ART - Giraffes can't Dance
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Finishing Personal Narrative Unit - we are in the editing and illustrating phase
We will also be doing some writing about perseverance
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Finishing Unit 4 - This unit focuses on suffixes - s, es, ed, er, est .- quiz will be Thursday
Trick Words: please, animal, sure, use, used, again
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins, ordinal numbers, estimating numbers to 100 using a referent of 10, *understanding place value, comparing numbers using signs < > =, ordering numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4, N6, N7,
HOMEWORK
READ - Wednesday, Friday
MATH -
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates:
Thursday, November 20th - Parent Teacher Interviews from 3 - 7pm
Friday, November 21st - Parent Teacher Interviews 8:45am - 12pm
November 12th - November 14th, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you all had a great long Remembrance Day weekend!
I heard some stories from those who participated in the Remembrance Day ceremonies happening our communities. I love hearing these :)
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Wednesday, Friday
MUSIC - Wednesday, Thursday
LIBRARY - Friday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/friendships
ART -
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Continuing Personal Narrative Unit - we are in the editing and illustrating phase
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Continuing Unit 4 - This unit focuses on suffixes - s, es, ed, er, est .
Trick Words: please, animal, sure, use, used, again
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins, ordinal numbers, estimating numbers to 100 using a referent of 10, *understanding place value, comparing numbers using signs < > =, ordering numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4, N6, N7,
HOMEWORK
READ - Wednesday, Friday
MATH - None this week
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates:
Thursday, November 20th - Parent Teacher Interviews from 3 - 7pm
Friday, November 21st - Parent Teacher Interviews 8:45am - 12pm
November 3rd - November 5th, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you had a great Halloween weekend. I loved hearing the kids stories about trick or treating!
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Monday, Wednesday
MUSIC - Tuesday, Wednesday
LIBRARY - Monday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/friendships
ART -
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Continuing Personal Narrative Unit
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Beginning Unit 4 - This unit focuses on suffixes - s, es, ed, er, est .
Trick Words:
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins, ordinal numbers, estimating numbers to 100 using a referent of 10, *understanding place value, comparing numbers using signs < > =, ordering numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4, N6, N7,
HOMEWORK
READ - Monday-Thursday
MATH - None this week
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates: Students have a mini break coming up!
Thursday, November 6th - PD for teachers - no school for students
Friday, November 7th - PD for teachers - no school for students
Monday, November 10th - Report Card day for teachers - no school for students
Tuesday, November 11th - Remembrance Day - no school
October 27th - October 31st, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you had a great weekend.
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
MUSIC - Monday, Wednesday
LIBRARY - Thursday, Friday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/friendships
ART - paper ghosts and spiders
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Scary Stories! This is a fun little unit to get into the Halloween spirit. Students will learn the elements of a spooky story and use their imagination to create their own! We are looking forward to hearing each others stories!
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Finishing Unit 3 - this unit focuses on closed syllable exceptions 'old, ost, ild, ind, olt' -- we will be having our unit test on Thursday.
Trick Words: done, pretty, goes
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins, ordinal numbers, estimating numbers to 100 using a referent of 10, *understanding place value,
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4, N6, N7,
HOMEWORK
READ - Monday-Thursday
MATH - None this week
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates:
Friday, October 31st - Halloween in 2E! We will be having a little Halloween party and costume parade in the grade 2 hallway! Students are able to wear their costumes to school. Keep in mind there are no pretend weapons allowed. We are looking forward to this!
Thursday, November 6th - PD for teachers - no school for students
Friday, November 7th - PD for teachers - no school for students
October 20th - October 24th, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you had a lovely weekend!
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
MUSIC - Tuesday, Thursday
LIBRARY - Thursday, Friday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/friendships
ART - Continuing Water Color Night Sky with 3D bats
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Personal Narrative Writing Unit - This unit focuses on taking a small moment that happened in your life and making it into a story! This week we will continue writing a strong middle to our story, adding lots of detail by telling what happened bit by bit. By the end of the week we will be writing our conclusion and doing some editing.
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Beginning Unit 3 - this unit focuses on closed syllable exceptions 'old, ost, ild, ind, olt'
Trick Words: done, pretty, goes
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins, ordinal numbers, estimating numbers to 100 using a referent of 10, *understanding place value
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4, N6, N7,
HOMEWORK
READ - Monday-Thursday
MATH - None this week
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates:
Thursday, October 23rd - Picture retakes
Friday, October 31st - Halloween in 2E! We will be having a little Halloween party and costume parade in the grade 2 hallway! Students are able to wear their costumes to school. Keep in mind there are no pretend weapons allowed. We are looking forward to this!
October 14th - October 17th, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
MUSIC - Wednesday, Friday
LIBRARY - Wednesday, Thursday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/friendships
ART - Water Color Night Sky with 3D bats
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Personal Narrative Writing Unit - This unit focuses on taking a small moment that happened in your life and making it into a story! This week we are focusing on writing a strong middle to our story, adding lots of detail by telling what happened bit by bit.
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Continuing Unit 2 - this unit focuses on when to use double letters 'F L S' (after a short vowel in a one syllable word) and glued sounds. This week we are focusing on glued sounds all, am, an, ing, ang, ong, ink, ank, onk
Trick Words: shall, pull, full, *both, walk, talk
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins, *ordinal numbers, estimating numbers to 100 using a referent of 10
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4,
HOMEWORK
READ - Tuesday-Thursday
MATH - None this week
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates:
Tuesday, October 14th - Rescheduled Walk to School Day
Friday, October 17th - Show and Tell in 2E - students can bring in one item to share with the class.
October 6th - October 10th, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you enjoyed another beautiful weekend! I can't believe we are into the month of October. We had a blast on our field trip to the Cotton Park. I hope your kiddos shared some stories with you!
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
MUSIC - Tuesday, Thursday
LIBRARY - Monday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/friendships
ART - oil pastel pumpkins
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Personal Narrative Writing Unit - This unit focuses on taking a small moment that happened in your life and making it into a story! We are working on planning our story in an organizer and writing an engaging beginning to hook your reader!
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Beginning Unit 2 - this unit focuses on when to use double letters 'F L S' (after a short vowel in a one syllable word) and glued sounds.
Trick Words: shall, pull, full
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4,
HOMEWORK
READ - Tuesday-Thursday
MATH - None this week
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates:
Monday, October 6th - Book Fair! Please send money with your child in a zip lock bag. Book Fair will also be open Thursday evening for family night!
Tuesday, October 7th - Picture Day!
Thursday, October 9th - Walk to School Day
Friday, October 10th - PD day for teachers - No classes for students.
September 29th - October 3rd, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed some of the events going on in the community.
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Monday, Wednesday, Friday
MUSIC - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
LIBRARY - Thursday, Friday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/friendships
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Personal Narrative Writing Unit - This unit focuses on taking a small moment that happened in your life and making it into a story!
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Finishing Unit 1 - this unit focuses on digraphs and blends in words. Trick Words: they, one, said, you, your, was -- these are high frequency words students will see frequently in the books they read. We will have our unit assessment on Friday.
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers, counting coins
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4,
HOMEWORK
READ - Tuesday-Thursday
MATH - None this week
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates:
Monday, September 29th - Orange Shirt Day
Tuesday, September 30th - Truth and Reconciliation Day *No Classes
Wednesday, October 1st - Field Trip to Cotton Park! We are all excited for this.
Tuesday, October 7th - Picture Day!
Friday, October 10th - PD day for teachers. No classes for students.
September 22-26th, 2025
Hi Families,
I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed some of the events going on in the community.
It was so nice to meet most of you last week! I am looking forward to a great year ahead.
Here's what's coming up this week in 2E:
SPECIALIST CLASSES
** You will notice on our schedule this year that we have more gym, music and library throughout our 6 day cycle. This is new for everyone!
PHYS. ED. - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
MUSIC - Monday, Wednesday, Friday
LIBRARY - Wednesday Thursday
CURRICULUM
HEALTH - life learning choices/feelings/friendships
READING - continue guided reading groups
Foundational Learning Focus:
LC2 - retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
WRITING - Personal Narrative Writing Unit - This unit focuses on taking a small moment that happened in your life and making it into a story!
Foundational Learning Focus:
WS 3 - Draft a piece of writing showing awareness of need to stay on topic and provide the reader with information and some supporting detail
FUNDATIONS - Unit 1 - this unit focuses on digraphs and blends in words. Trick Words: they, one, said, you, your, was -- these are high frequency words students will see frequently in the books they read.
MATH - represent and describe numbers to 100, patterns on the 100's chart, number patterns in skip counting forward and backwards by 2's, 5's and 10's, odd/even numbers
Foundational Learning Focus:
N1, N2, N3, N4,
HOMEWORK
READ - Tuesday-Thursday
MATH - None this week
TRICK WORDS - practice and copy down each night
Important Dates:
Thursday September 25th - we will be participating in our annual Terry Fox run at GSP.
Monday September 29th - we will be celebrating orange shirt day! A reminder there will be no school on Tuesday September 30th for Truth and Reconciliation Day.