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Bonjour families!
Thank you all our parent volunteers that helped again with skating this past week! We are looking forward to a fun day on celebrating on Monday!
Updates and Reminders:
Updates and Reminders:
If you would like more information about the scoring of assignments in power school, please see this graphic: Communication of Student Learning Document
Next Skating Excursion: November 7th (11:15am - 12:00pm)
Halloween:
Halloween:
COSTUMES
We invite all students (and staff) to come dressed in their Halloween costumes to school on Monday, October 31st. Please leave all costume accessories at home (weapons, wands, etc). Throughout the day, we will be participating in different fun Halloween activities depending if your child wants to, and the school will participate in a cohort-based costume parade.
TREATS: Please ensure only individually packaged treats are sent in.
Learning Commons (Library)! Please send your students' library book back to school on their designated Learning Commons day.
Tuesday- Mme Cornell
Thursday- Mme McCaffrey
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 are set up for your child. This literacy tool is used in the class and can be used at home as well for practicing letter sounds, phonemes (ou, on, er, ai, in, oi, etc) and common/sight words. If you need help with logging in, please contact your teacher. 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
Why do we lose control of our emotions video: Emotions video.
This week in:
This week in:
Literacy:
We are launching our Home Literacy page of the website this week. Please visit this page for details out our Home Reading Challenge.
The sound of the week is: "m". The words of the week are: même, problème, comme, samedi, mars
If you are not sure about pronunciations, Wordreference (english-french dictionary) has a listen button for the words: https://www.wordreference.com/
You can work on these words at home by: reading the words out loud with your child (have them translate to verify their comprehension), have them spell the words (practice daily in the agenda), or have them use the word in a French sentence. You can also have the student practice identifying each letter in french and the letter sounds (phonemes).
For more ideas on how to practice sight words at home, see the attached below:
We will continuing to review poems (through shared readings) in order to practice learning new vocabulary, rhyming, our accuracy when reading, comprehension and fluidity together! We are slowly working on introducing our Daily 5 centers which include: reading to self, word work, writing, speaking and listening to reading (once we have our technology running).
Numeracy: We are diving deeper into our study of increasing patterns. We will be moving from non-numerical increasing patterns (involving shape, colour, etc.) to increasing patterns with numbers (ex: 2, 4, 6, 8). This will set students up to learn about skip counting! Check out the bottom of the newsletter for pictures of how patterns appeared in our art project this week.
Science: We will be continuing to wrap up our study of insects and small animals with a cross-curricular art project. Students will use their creativity to invent an imaginary bug which they will begin sculpting from clay. Students will need to ensure that the anatomy of their bug is accurate, as well as design an environment that meets all of their insect's basic needs. We are looking forward to seeing students' creations!
Social Studies: Students are working to learn to use maps to determine distance, use relative terms such as near/far, use cardinal locations, and use relative location such as using geological markers and landmarks to determine where people and places are! We will then take this learning, and be collaborating between all grade 2 classes to create a giant map of our community.
October:
October 31st- Dress up/ Costume day & Halloween Celebration
November:
November 3rd- Photo retakes
November 7th - Skating at Rob Ebbesen (11:15am - 12:00pm)
November 10 - Remembrance Day Ceremony at 10:30 a.m. in the gymnasium
November 11 - School Closed due to Remembrance Day
November 14 - No school for students due to Staff Professional Learning Day
Have a great weekend!
Thank you,
Mme Cornell & Mme McCaffrey
Rangoli Patterns
We celebrated Diwali by making our own Rangoli patterns and discussed radial symmetry as well as how patterns can be found in art & culture all around the world!
Patterns in our pumpkins!
Student used orange and yellow pastels to create repeating and growing patterns using shapes. They then cut up these patterns to create pumpkin mosaics.
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