Mrs. Mah Grade 2

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.