Bonjour les familles!

We hope you all have a relaxing spring break!

Updates and Reminders:

April 7 -16 - Spring Vacation - No School

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: "in/im"

The words of the week are:  La fin, lapin, simple, singe, juin

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 150 sight words, aiming to know 250 by the end of the year.  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 have been working on stories and we will be looking to publish them after the break!

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

Numeracy: Students have finished up double digit addition with regrouping and will be moving on to learning double digit subtraction. Please see powerschool for the double digit addition quiz marks. 

Social Studies: Students have wrapped up their arctic animal research projects. Please have a look at their presentations on MyBlueprint! We look forward to continuing our study of Iqaluit after the break. 

Science: Students will begin exploring liquids. We will start this unit by studying the characteristics of liquids as we examine multiple examples of liquids. 

Art: Students will be creating spring themed art to welcome the warmer weather! We look forward to sharing pictures once they have finished their projects. 

Phys. Ed.: We are excited to begin our gymnastics unit once we return from the break. Students will apply a variety of gross motor and locomotor skills on a variety of obstacle courses set up in the gym. 

April Dates:

7 -16 - Spring Vacation - No School

Thank you, 

Mme Cornell & Mme McCaffrey

"The Thinking Classroom" Inspired Open-Ended Numeracy Questions

We have been combining both grade 2 FI classes into small groups and giving them an open ended math question to work through and record on whiteboards and other erasable surfaces. These questions require problem solving skills and are designed to incorporate some element of what we are studying in numeracy. Here are some highlights of students deciding what Winnie, our therapy dog, could buy for her birthday from the pet store with her $100 gift card and putting their addition skills to work! Students showed great teamwork and creative thinking.