2M Update:
Beach Day!












Language Arts: Read story about a house.  Gathering information on different kinds of houses to build vocabulary for our expository house writing.

• Forming and writing opinions about different kinds of houses. 
• Sentence analysis on fairy house sentences - Identifying nouns, verbs, subject/predicate, capitalization and punctuation.

*Continue daily home reading to help your child progress with their reading!

* Students have been introduced to Daily 5 literacy centres and will work on them every week.

Daily 5 - Centres

Centre 1 - ABC Book - All About Me. Students write sentences using a word from each letter of the alphabet.  The sentence is about them and includes who(is doing the action), where,when or why(your action is done) and an adjective.

Centre 2 - Read to Self - Students pick a book at their level, read and write a book review.

Centre 3 - Sticker Story Centre - students pick 3 stickers to illustrate a story and write a story to go with the stickers using various sentence starters and vocabulary.

Centre 4 - Listen to reading - students use I pads and book flix. They pick a story to listen to and write about new words and characters in the book with illustrations.

Centre 4 - Interactive Notebook for sight words - students trace, build, highlight, rainbow word, doodle, read and find sight words to build vocabulary.

*Sight word test Friday, Feb 3.

List 12 questions

1. who        5. why

2. what       6. does

3. when      7. which

4. where     8. how

Math; Missing parts with subtraction ex/ 12 - ? = 4

• Does order matter with subtraction(Yes! The bigger number must go first)/Subtraction to compare ex/ How many more students are standing then sitting.

Social: Early days of Meteghan, Iqaluit and Saskatoon.

Looking at Places Assessment - will go home Monday - please sign and return.

Science:  Waterproof quality and strength of the bonds determine whether or not a structure can float for an extended period of time, We constructed and tested paper/newspaper and tinfoil/wax paper boats.

• Students constructed self propelled boats and tested different designs that were appropriate to the design task.
• Boats and Buoyancy assessment Thursday, Feb 2nd.  Please return green duo-tangs on Thursday.

Religion: Parts of the mass - finished student mass book

Art: Snow Angel art

Upcoming;

Jan 30 - Feb 3; Story telling residency

Feb 1: Return home reading/library books

Feb 2: Fun Food

Feb 8: Story telling residency evening ( last names A-L attend)

Feb 9: Story telling residency evening ( last names M-Z attend)

Feb 10; Fun Food Caesars

Have a great week! 

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2M Update:

Language Arts:  Practiced list 11 - contractions/Wonderful words - copied out/ABC order/sentences

* No Spelling words this week as it is a short week.

• Homonym lesson - words that sound the same but have more than 1 meaning. ex/ sea & see
• Antonym lesson - words that are opposites. ex/ big & small
• Started Expository writing  - students compare strong and weak examples of expository writing. and identify elements that make a piece of writing strong. ex/ Intro/Paragraphs with a main topic in each one/Concluding paragraph.

* List 12 spelling test Friday, Feb 4th

List 12: Questions 

1.  who            5.  why

2.  what           6.  does

3.  when          7.  which

4.  where         8.  how

Math:  Inequalities - equal or not equal 

• Order of addition - it is easier to add the larger number first. ex/ 9+2 =11 
• Addition word problems with missing parts. ex/ 9 + ___ = 11

Science; Cargo boats and stability

Social;  Looking at Places - Early days of Iqaluit/Meteghan and Saskatoon.

*Quiz on Chapter 1 on Wed, Jan 25th - study guide went home - please read through the study guide and make sure they are familiar with the definitions/weather/locations and descriptions of each of the 3 places we are studying.  They should be able to read and identify the words.

Health; - fire safety

Art - winter silhouettes

Upcoming:

Jan 25th: social quiz

Jan 26th; Beach Day/Fun Food

Jan 27th; PD day/no school for students

Enjoy the continued warm weather!

2M Update:

Language Arts: List 10 word practice/DLR/ Read "Squirrels New Years Resolution"- made up our own resolutions(see balloon art).

• Dazzling December writing 
• Holiday Writing

List 11 spelling test Friday, Jan 20th

List 11 Contractions

1.  can't                      5.  I'll

2.  doesn't                  6.  I'm

3.  won't                    7.  don't

4.  they're                  8.  isn't

Math; Addition and subtraction to 18 - writing number sentences for number stories

• Creating and solving number problems using pictures and words.
• Fact families ex/  2 + 3 = 5    5 - 3  = 2

                                       3 + 2 = 5    5 - 2 = 3

Science: Boat and Buoyancy afternoon - 4 stations

• Floating and sinking treasures/message in a bottle
• Polly and Parrot's Plasticine boat
• Capsizing cargo
• Boat building

***Review booklet

** See pictures below.***

Religion; The 4 parts of the mass./reading and  mass booklet

Art: Catching Snowflake art.(see Picture)

Gym: Basketball skills

Upcoming:

Jan 19th: Scholastic book orders due

Jan 20th: Fun Food Freshii

Jan 26th: Beach Day

Jan 27th; Pd Day/no school

Please continue with the daily home reading and using Raz kids!

Have a great week!

2M Update:

Happy New Year!

* In school field trip - Teachers Pet - Boats and Buoyancy -Wed, Jan 11th 1-3pm. We could use one more parent volunteer if you are available. Please let me know via agenda/email.

Language Arts:  ** List 10 spelling test, Friday, Jan 13th.

List 10 - Math

1.  add                  6.  odd
2.  subtract           7.  even
3.  together           8.  line
4.  less                  9.  number
5.  left

Finished up Polar Express book study.  Polar Express/Pajama/hot chocolate party. (See pictures below)

***Please return home reading on Wed, Jan 11th.***


Math; Finished Numbers to 100 - Assessments will go home Monday, Jan 9th.  Please sign and return.
***New Unit:  Addition and subtraction to 18***

Social:     Looking at Places
Science:   Boats and Buoyancy

Upcoming:
Jan 9th - classes resume
Jan 11th - Teachers Pet in school field trip(1-3pm)
                 Return home reading and library books.
Jan 13th - Fun Food - Little Caesars
Jan 20th - Fun Food
Jan 26th - Spirit Day - Beach Day
Jan 27th - PD Day - no school for students

Enjoy the rest of your holiday!