**Please continue to do Home Reading**
These are our reading strategies we use
at school to help us decode new words!
Reminders:
- Book Orders due end of this week
- Picture Retake day on October 24th. Please let me know if you would like retakes
- Fun Lunch October 30 -Healthy Hunger Website to order
- November 1st - No school
- We Scare Hunger Donations
- Please help us reach our school goal!
Leighton Art Center
Just wanted to let everyone know the fees have not yet been post onto your MYCBE accounts as of yet. Hopefully they will be up in the next couple days. I will let you know when they are up. Please note we do require 6 volunteers for this in class field trip. If you can volunteer and have your CBE police clearance please email me to let me know.
Language Arts
I am so happy to hear that students are practicing their Words of the Week at home! Keep up the hard work!! We have been focusing on our vowel sounds and vowel combinations in class. This is often a tricky concept in Grade 2. Long vowels and Short vowels are a vital part of reading and writing.
Please review these sounds with your child. When students are confidently able to use long and short vowels, phonetic spelling and decoding new words when reading becomes much easier. Once students can confidently identify long and short vowels, they can begin to explore more complex vowel combinations.
Long and Short Vowel Sounds
Vowel Combinations
New Words of the Week
Math:
We have continued to build on our skip counting skills, estimation, increasing patterns and even/odd numbers. Please see below for the Grade 2 Curriculum expectations.
"Specific Mathematics Outcomes:
* Say the number sequence 0 to 100 by:
2s, 5s and 10s, forward and backward, using starting points that are multiples of 2, 5 and 10 respectively.
10s, using starting points from 1 to 9
2s, starting from 1.
*Demonstrate if a number (up to 100) is even or odd.
*Estimate quantities to 100, using referents."
(Alberta Curriculum)
Science:
We have continued to explore the water cycle. Today students created a flip book to explain the water cycle. Ask your child to explain the four main concepts of the water cycle. Precipitation, evaporation, collection/accumulation, condensation.
Here is a great video to help review the steps of the water cycle:
We get to meet our Roots of Empathy Baby tomorrow! Ask your child about Roots of Empathy!
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