Week of Dec 8-12

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.