Good day all. I hope everyone is feeling better than I am. It is a sick time for me and stayed away from the kids today and should be back to work tomorrow. Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is popcorn day. We will also be having our Christmas party on Friday, December 19th. I will send out info for who I have to bring something for our last day of school in 2014. We will begin our party around 11:30 so the children have lots of time to eat and visit before the movie in the afternoon.
Christmas Concert Info:
All grade 2 students are dressing up in black pants/skirt and a white top for the concert. The concert date is Thursday December 18th, with one concert at 1:30pm. The evening concert begins at 7:00pm. We ask that you bring your child to the school at 6:30 where they can head to their classroom.
Language Arts
Spelling:
Our spelling words for this week are as follows;
grass trunk truck flew flat class plate from glove friend
Phonics:
We continue to work on long vowel sounds, now working towards recognizing if a word has a long vowel sound or short vowel sound. (Kit - Short, Kite - long)
Math
We a will be finishing up our unit on patterns with some assessment being done next week. We have been working hard on showing and representing increasing patterns. In the Numbers to 100 unit we will continue to work on estimation for the rest of the week.
Science
We are doing really well in our Hot and Cold unit. We recently did an experiment to show what takes up more space, snow or water. The students had fun collecting snow and recording the temperature before letting it melt to see what happened. Some of the students are still having a hard time reading thermometers though and could use extra practice at home. We look at weather every morning during our morning routine, recording the temperature, but more practice is always an asset.
Social Studies
In social we continue to study the early years of our 3 communities, Meteghan, Iqaluit, and Saskatoon. We are comparing and contrasting the 3 communities together with our community of Leduc.
Tuesday 9 December 2014
Tuesday 2 December 2014
Short Week
Good evening. A couple of quick reminders for this week. There is no school on Friday because of teacher P.D. we also have no spelling test this week. We will have a new set of words next Monday.
Math
This week in Math, in our patterning unit, we are focusing on increasing patterns. An increasing pattern is a pattern that increases in size with each additional element. for example, 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, is a pattern that increases by a value of 3. A question that arises from this pattern might be "What is the 8th element in this pattern?" This also will assess their knowledge of ordinal numbers.
In our numbers to 100 unit, we are in the midst of working on estimation. At this point estimation is still a difficult concept for most students, but we will spend more time doing activities and questions to practice our estimation skills.
Science
In science, we are continuing our hot and cold temperatures unit. Reading thermometers remains a big part of what we are trying to accomplish in the unit. This week we will also be talking about many weather terms and definitions that deal with hot and cold, as well as doing an experiment called "The Great Meltdown" on Wednesday. Feel free to ask your child about the Great Meltdown in our classroom.
Next week I will be sending out a sign up to some parents for our Christmas potluck lunch. It will be done on sign up genius and if you receive an email to sign up for an item, it will be first come first serve. I hope everyone has a great "long" weekend.
Mr. Aasen
Math
This week in Math, in our patterning unit, we are focusing on increasing patterns. An increasing pattern is a pattern that increases in size with each additional element. for example, 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, is a pattern that increases by a value of 3. A question that arises from this pattern might be "What is the 8th element in this pattern?" This also will assess their knowledge of ordinal numbers.
In our numbers to 100 unit, we are in the midst of working on estimation. At this point estimation is still a difficult concept for most students, but we will spend more time doing activities and questions to practice our estimation skills.
Science
In science, we are continuing our hot and cold temperatures unit. Reading thermometers remains a big part of what we are trying to accomplish in the unit. This week we will also be talking about many weather terms and definitions that deal with hot and cold, as well as doing an experiment called "The Great Meltdown" on Wednesday. Feel free to ask your child about the Great Meltdown in our classroom.
Next week I will be sending out a sign up to some parents for our Christmas potluck lunch. It will be done on sign up genius and if you receive an email to sign up for an item, it will be first come first serve. I hope everyone has a great "long" weekend.
Mr. Aasen
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