Week #23 February 27 - March 3

Bonjour les familles!

Thank you for joining us this week for learning conferences; students enjoyed showcasing all their hard work thus far! We hope you enjoy a restful break!

Updates and Reminders:

February 20 - 24 - No School for Students

Looking for volunteers:

Please let us know if are available to volunteer to join us for swimming March 21,23, 28, 30 - Swimming at Genesis (1:15-2:00 pm) - We will be leaving the school around 12:40 to walk to Genesis place.

Personal items: Thank you, families, for ensuring that student personal items (such as toys, stuffies, pokemon cards, etc.) remain at home and not sent to school. They can easily become a distraction to learning. They can also cause disputes at recess and throughout the day.

Phones: Students who have phones may have a specific reason for having them, but these should not be visible, turned on, or in use throughout the day until after dismissal.

If these items are brought to school, they will be collected in the morning and returned to students at the end of the day.

Thank you once again, families!

Read-a-Thon: We were excited to kick-off our read-a-thon fundraiser last week! Read-a-thon will run from February 2 to March 2. Our theme this year is "Reading Transforms Us"! All students are encouraged to read daily- our goal is for each student to read 500 minutes over the 28 day period (which is less than 20 minutes a day)! Minutes in class count as well. Every day our grade 2 classes read for 15 minutes-- these minutes can be added to your child's reading log. Reading logs and additional information have been sent home with students (check their backpacks!). Pledges for minutes read translate into entries to win book prizes, class pizza parties, and one student winner will even become principal for the day! Any pledge amount over $25 is eligible to receive a taxable donation receipt if a name and address have been provided. Happy reading!

Learning Commons (Library)! Please send your students' library books back to school on their designated Learning Commons day.

Tuesday- Mme Cornell

Thursday- Mme McCaffrey

Helpful Clickable Links:

Absence Choice Board

Je lis (home reading): https://jelis.rkpublishing.com/student

Mathletics (Math practice at home): https://login.mathletics.com/

Boom Cards (Phoneme practice) : https://wow.boomlearning.com/

myBlueprint (Student Portfolio): https://app.myblueprint.ca/

Parents Guide to Sight Words

Video for practicing the alphabet letters (practice this out of order, for example: in reverse)

Video for practicing sound blends and alphabet sounds (Phonemes)

Wordreference (english-french dictionary)

The Absence Choice Board is available for students that are away and still able to complete work at home. Follow this link for the instructions: Absence Choice Board

Boom Cards: This literacy tool can be used at home. Here is the link to login: https://wow.boomlearning.com/

Please check if you are able to login to myBlueprint as well: https://app.myblueprint.ca/

Airdrie Community Links is offering several Parent supports for a variety of topics such as anxiety, ADHD, big feelings, and social thinking. If you would like further information on any of these supports, and others, here is a link: Community Links Ressources

This week in:

Literacy:

The sound of the week is: s vibrant "z". The words of the week are: maison, chaise, rose, chose, visage

Sight words: We have also been reviewing sight words (common words/everyday words) with students since the beginning of the year, at this point in the year we are expecting students to know at least 120 sight words, aiming to know 250 by the end of the year (students are currently expected to know up until slide #8 - around 120 words). We have sent home some rings with words to practice at home. For some ideas on how to practice, please see this resource: Parents Guide to Sight Words

Here is the sight word list to practice with your child at home if you would like to print and cut more out:

Grade 2 Sight Words

Literacy Routine: Students have been organized into literacy small groups that will continue to receive targeted instruction on their individual literacy goals through targeted small group instruction, and specific literacy centers. Targeted skills include phonological awareness skills, phonemic awareness instruction, listening to French, speaking French, writing, and reading instruction.

Writer's Workshop: Students will begin the publication stage of their stories! We are exciting to share the final product onnce students are finished.

Home Literacy: Please visit this page for details about our Home Reading Challenge.

Numeracy: We will be continuing our study of addition and subtraction within 100. We will be focusing on subtractions strategies within 20. We will be building fluency by practicing all of our strategies in games for both addition and subtraction. Students will be learning how the addition strategies they have learned can be useful to help solve subtraction questions. Students will be applying these strategies to subtraction up to 18-9. Here are some of the Subtraction Strategies students will be working on.

If you would like to practice addition and subtraction at home, here is the link to the strategies we have learned: mental math strategies. Here are some of the games that we have been using to practice our addition strategies. Have fun trying some of them out at home!

Totality Game (ask your child to show you).

4 in a row

Bump! (English version) Pousse-toi! (French version) Pousse-toi! CHALLENGE

Dots to print (if your child wants to colour them to use for homemade bingo chips.)

Science: Students will continue to explore magnets and investigate how magnets interact with our environment.

Social Studies: Students will begin learning about the geography of Iqaluit, including the animals that call this community home. Students will begin selecting an arctic animal to complete a research project about. Students will be conducting research, organizing the data they find, and presenting it using clear communication to their classmates. This project encompasses many interdisciplinary outcomes and will take multiple weeks to complete.

Art: Students will be working on stamping art to accompany their upcoming research project presentations!