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Mathematics
In Math we are going to be starting Addition and Subtraction. The students will be solving problems involving addition and subtraction of one- and two-digit whole numbers, using a variety of strategies. The Grade 2 students will describe relationships between quantities by using whole number addition and subtraction, with and without regrouping using concrete materials and standard algorithms. The Grade 3 students will use estimation when solving problems involving addition and subtraction to judge the reasonableness of a solution and add and subtract three-digit numbers, using concrete materials and standard algorithms.
Science Topic
Animals (Grade 2) and Plants (Grade 3)
During our Science periods the students will use a variety of center-based activities to investigate their topic. These centers will include a variety of skills that should be a fun and interactive learning opportunity for them. The skills we will be focusing on are matching, reading, creating, exploring, sorting, analyzing, explaining, using technology, drawing and using and inquire based approach to research about a topic.
Language Arts Topics
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support with the Take Home Reading Program. I hope the Grade 2 students and parents have continued this while I was away. We continue to work on reading skills in the classroom. Through our daily lessons the students learn a variety of skills and rules to help them become better readers and writers. These rules will help them understand how the concepts are applied to "Action" activities as well as Guided Reading. Some of these concepts are listed below with the rules that will be taught for these skills.
Reading Skills
·Comparing literal and figurative meaning
·Diagramming events in a sequence chain
·Synonyms
·Main idea or purpose of a story
·Comprehension
Writing Skills
·writing stories and letters
·using grammar connectors
·using capitals
·using periods, questions marks and exclamation marks correctly
-pluralization
·using commas correctly
·journals
Rules for Pluralization
Looking at the end of words that you need to make plural usually provides the clue for the rule that will be used to make a word plural. In teaching pluralization, I always instruct the children to look carefully at the word and work their way down this list of rules until they find the ending of the word that they they are trying to make plural. When the ending is located they are to make the word plural using that rule. Below are the rules that the children will be learning. They are in order that they should be looked at when pluralizing words.
·Does the word end in ss, s, sh, ch, z, zz, x? ADD ES TO ALL OF THESE WORDS TO MAKE PLURAL.
·Does the word end in f? CHANGE THE F TO V AND ADD ES.
·Does the word end in y with a consonant in front of the y (baby)? CHANGE THE Y TO i AND ADD ES.
·Does the word end in y with a vowel in front of the letter y (monkey)? ADD ONLY AN S.
·If your word does not fit any of the above rules make it plural by ADDING S. THIS IS THE RULE FOR MOST WORDS.
·Some rules are exceptions and must be memorized (moose, mice, sheep ,fish)
When to Use Commas·
·In addresses: between the city or town, and the province (include country if you wish)
·In a list of more than two items: between the items
·In dates: between the day and the month (year may be included).
Mathematics
In Math we are going to be starting Addition and Subtraction. The students will be solving problems involving addition and subtraction of one- and two-digit whole numbers, using a variety of strategies. The Grade 2 students will describe relationships between quantities by using whole number addition and subtraction, with and without regrouping using concrete materials and standard algorithms. The Grade 3 students will use estimation when solving problems involving addition and subtraction to judge the reasonableness of a solution and add and subtract three-digit numbers, using concrete materials and standard algorithms.
Science Topic
Animals (Grade 2) and Plants (Grade 3)
During our Science periods the students will use a variety of center-based activities to investigate their topic. These centers will include a variety of skills that should be a fun and interactive learning opportunity for them. The skills we will be focusing on are matching, reading, creating, exploring, sorting, analyzing, explaining, using technology, drawing and using and inquire based approach to research about a topic.
Language Arts Topics
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support with the Take Home Reading Program. I hope the Grade 2 students and parents have continued this while I was away. We continue to work on reading skills in the classroom. Through our daily lessons the students learn a variety of skills and rules to help them become better readers and writers. These rules will help them understand how the concepts are applied to "Action" activities as well as Guided Reading. Some of these concepts are listed below with the rules that will be taught for these skills.
Reading Skills
·Comparing literal and figurative meaning
·Diagramming events in a sequence chain
·Synonyms
·Main idea or purpose of a story
·Comprehension
Writing Skills
·writing stories and letters
·using grammar connectors
·using capitals
·using periods, questions marks and exclamation marks correctly
-pluralization
·using commas correctly
·journals
Rules for Pluralization
Looking at the end of words that you need to make plural usually provides the clue for the rule that will be used to make a word plural. In teaching pluralization, I always instruct the children to look carefully at the word and work their way down this list of rules until they find the ending of the word that they they are trying to make plural. When the ending is located they are to make the word plural using that rule. Below are the rules that the children will be learning. They are in order that they should be looked at when pluralizing words.
·Does the word end in ss, s, sh, ch, z, zz, x? ADD ES TO ALL OF THESE WORDS TO MAKE PLURAL.
·Does the word end in f? CHANGE THE F TO V AND ADD ES.
·Does the word end in y with a consonant in front of the y (baby)? CHANGE THE Y TO i AND ADD ES.
·Does the word end in y with a vowel in front of the letter y (monkey)? ADD ONLY AN S.
·If your word does not fit any of the above rules make it plural by ADDING S. THIS IS THE RULE FOR MOST WORDS.
·Some rules are exceptions and must be memorized (moose, mice, sheep ,fish)
When to Use Commas·
·In addresses: between the city or town, and the province (include country if you wish)
·In a list of more than two items: between the items
·In dates: between the day and the month (year may be included).