October 2019

Hello Families, 

As you are probably aware I was away Friday and today as I have been quite sick. Good old back to school germs.  Both guest teachers commented on how great the kids all were! 🎉😁GOOD JOB CLASS!!!

Thank you all for your book orders I will place the order this evening. 📚📙📘📗📕📖

WE SCARE HUNGER starts tomorrow! 👻👹👻👹👻👹👻👹 

There is a school council meeting this Thursday October 3rd at 6:00pm.

No School for students October 11 and October 14. 🦃

Home Reading:
Please try to read every night for 5 - 10 minutes. I remind students every morning to change their books, however if they want to keep it for a few days that works as well. 

Math:
In math we will be moving into patterning and will continue with skip counting. Patterns are a great concept to practice at home with blocks, colours, buttons, beads, really anything you may have around the house. The students have already been able to identify the 'core' in a few patterns explored last week. 

Please see the following outcomes for an idea of what we will be learning in Grade two.

Patterns & Relations - Patterns (Gr. 2)

General Outcome: Use patterns to describe the world and to solve problems. 

Specific Outcome 1

Demonstrate an understanding of repeating patterns (three to five elements) by:

• describing
• extending
• comparing
• creating

patterns using manipulatives, diagrams, sounds and actions. 

Specific Outcome 2

Demonstrate an understanding of increasing patterns by:

• describing
• reproducing
• extending
• creating

numerical (numbers to 100) and non-numerical patterns using manipulatives, diagrams, sounds and actions. 

Specific Outcome 3

Sort a set of objects, using two attributes, and explain the sorting rule.

The following link is to our Alberta Grade Two curriculum please have a look to see what your child will be exploring and learning this year.

https://www.alberta.ca/programs-of-study.aspx

• You may need to scroll down in the website and click on
• English Language Arts K-6
• Mathematics K-6
• Fine Arts K-6
• Social Studies K-6
• Science K-6
• Physical Education
• Music
• Health and Life Skills

Here are two other great links with information about our curriculum:

https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mychildslearning/grade2.html

http://www.learnalberta.ca/ProgramsOfStudy.aspx?lang=en

Help Us SCARE HUNGER!!

Auburn Bay School is partnering with the Calgary Food Bank once again this October to help fight hunger in our community.

We Scare Hunger is made possible with the support of Help Hunger Disappear®, Campbell Canada’s national hunger awareness and food drive program. Since 2008, Help Hunger Disappear® reminds us that we can all play a part in helping the more than 900,000 Canadians who rely on their local food banks every month.

The Auburn Bay School We Scare Hunger Campaign officially begins Tuesday, October 1^st and will end October 31^st. We invite you to be a part of the change our students are working hard to create. Students have been asked to bring in food bank items throughout the next month. Last year we brought in 1720 pounds of food. This year, our school goal is to collect 1800 pounds of food!

To give you an idea of how much food that is, the average family of 4 people receive an estimated 125 pounds worth of food, filling approximately 2 grocery carts per family. So, if we divvy up the 1720 pounds worth of food collected last year, this amount supported about 14 families, filling 28 grocery carts with food. (Calgary Food Bank) The Calgary Food Bank Wish List can be found here https://www.calgaryfoodbank.com/wishlist/ Please only send non-perishable donation items. 

Together we can make a difference.

Thank You,

Auburn Bay School  

👻👻

Fall Has Arrived

Hello Families,

It was so nice to meet everyone last week! Thank you so much for coming in.

A few Reminders:

• Please send in headphones
• Book Orders due this Friday - please order online
• Terry Fox Run is on Wednesday - please see previous blog post
• bring toonies for Terry if you can
• Picture Day is Thursday

Home Reading for 5 - 10 minutes every night!

Math:

Please practice counting by 2s, 5s, 10s forwards and backwards. You can use a one hundreds chart to help. We started exploring movement patterns today. Students made up their own movement and sound patterns with up to 3 elements (AB) (ABC). Ask them to show you. You can challenge them to make a movement pattern with up to 5 elements. We learned that patterns have to repeat a minimum of 3 times to be considered a pattern. 

Language Arts:

We learned about 'Read to Someone' today. Students Practiced sitting EEKK and using a quiet voice to read to their partner. Reading out-loud helps us build fluency and to not read like a robot.  During Free Writing we learned about how to use The Five Senses to write with more detail. If you would like to practice some writing at home, you can ask your child to use some of the following sentence starters to describe their day.