Greetings Parents and Students,
We are wrapping up our Grade 2 Math Unit; facts to 18. Please practice +/- facts to 18 over the holidays with your child. Many of the photos are of math strategies we have been working on over the past week or so. Have your child explain the DOUBLES STRATEGY, NEAR DOUBLES STRATEGY, MAGIC 9 STRATEGY and TENS STRATEGY (photos 1 to 3). Use the photos to help your child explain. You can easily make ten frames at home using paper/pencil or an egg carton with 2 parts of the egg carton cut off.
The children used TEN FRAMES as a visual to SEE ten in numbers.
EXAMPLE: 7+6 = (7 + 3) + 3 = 13 EXAMPLE: 5 + 9 = 4 + (1 +9) = 14
Photos 22 to 26 are based on a math lesson reinforcing minus 1 and minus 2 math facts (NEAR DOUBLES). Try some of these questions at home with your child.
The Grade 2s had a lot of fun working on their Diwali dija candles and coasters last Friday afternoon, while the Grade 3s made their sugar cube houses. Kichu and Sonakshi were able to share about their own personal Diwali celebrations. Following this, we painted the dijas on Monday and hopefully they were able to transport them home in one piece. Be sure to watch the following Diwali sites with your child:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp59n0So-XE cartoon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrrW3rO51ak non-fiction
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK4ztMNKcjI bilingual song and history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTkUj6H0G3A song
The children learned about Hanukkah over the past few school days. New vocabulary included: menorah (8 oil lit candles), latkes (potato pancakes), dreidel (top). We read: My Two Holidays; A Hanukkah and Christmas Story by Danielle Novack. We watched some short videos from Hanukkah websites (one was from Sesame Street). We sang the Dreidel song. We created a web of words on the whiteboard. Our culminating activity on Tuesday was to make our OWN dreidels and to play the dreidel (top) game. Here are the Hanukkah sites for you as follows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VfChLAADS8 Sesame Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G40SlkmZkqU Dreidel cartoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tws_uMAEOs Story of Hanukkah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKreDYVWark Awesome dreidel song
Our French focus (photos 27 to 29) this week continued with Christmas vocabulary through LOTO/ BINGO, French story about a lonely Christmas tree and the song: Notre Arbre de Noel; www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81AK0-s7xM
Our adorable STAR OF THE WEEK was Ramiha, who was born in Toronto. Ramiha has a younger brother and a pet fish. She enjoys spending time with her mom, dad, and baby brother and knows how to speak Bangla. She enjoys bike riding in the summer and playing in the snow in the winter. Her favourite food is pasta and her favourite colour is pink.
On Wednesday morning we read and sang the story, A Wart Snake in a Fig Tree. We had a lot of fun presenting the story/song to Mrs. Evan’s Grade 1 class, as part of our Reader’s Theatre. In the afternoon, we had 2 guest speakers from the Board of Education, Doug and Wayne, who shared their knowledge of Bears of the World.
REMINDERS:
1. Please send your child’s GINGERBREAD HOUSE MATERIAL to school on Thursday or Friday. Next Tuesday will be the class MULTICULTURAL BREAKFAST in the morning and the afternoon/evening concert (dress your child in red & green) later that day.
2. I will be collecting READING LOGS on Thursday, December 18th. We will be going bowling that morning.
3. Friday is the last day of school before the break with a 2:30 dismissal. Classes resume on January 5, 2015th.
The boys and girls have been enjoying the wonderful weather this week! They are enjoying the snow, the sunshine and playing together on the playground.
Ms. Selimos
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Thursday, December 4, 2014
December 1st week with Ms. Selimos
Dear Parents and Students,
We have a lot of fun activities
occurring over the month of December!
1. The Grade 2/3 MULTICULTURAL
BREAKFAST will be on TUES.DEC. 16TH with ALL Gr. 2 & 3 classes
at 9 a.m. Please send your child to
school with a food sample of a dish (small portion), if possible, from your
cultural background. No nuts please.
EXAMPLES: 6 to 12 portions of
something: 6 yogurt cups, 6 cheese
strings, 6 spring rolls, 6 samosas, 6 tiropites (Greek cheese pies), small bag
of crackers or tortilla chips. Each
child will be asked to bring something and to present their items.
2. On Tuesday, December 16th your child is participating in
the Grant Road concert held at Campbell. The afternoon performance is at Campbell
Collegiate High School at 1:15 p.m. The
evening performance is at Campbell Collegiate High School (102 Massey Road) at
6:30 p.m. Please have your child at
Campbell by 6 to 6:10 p.m. You are responsible for transporting your child to
and from this venue. The Gr. 2 classes costuming is simple… They are elves, so
we ask that your child be dressed in RED & GREEN CLOTHES if possible.
3. You may send GINGERBREAD
HOUSE MATERIALS to school NEXT Wed. 10th or Thurs. 11th.
4. RAMIHA is our STAR OF THE WEEK on MON. DEC. 8TH.
It was wonderful to meet
with you last Thursday evening and Friday at the 3 Way Conferences to celebrate
your child’s academic successes and achievements! This week’s photos feature some our final
copies of our farm animal research. They
are all on display in the hallway.
Photos 5 and 6 are
samples of math problems using the following vocabulary: difference, subtract, how many more. Addition and subtraction of 1 and 2 was
another target area. The children played
the ONE LESS, TWO LESS GAME (photos 27 to 29).
Best wishes to Miss
Kezama and Miss Lechler, our 2 University of Regina student teachers, who
completed their semester with us on Tuesday.
Good luck with finals girls!
Please come back and visit us in the New Year! Thank you for the cookies!
Thank you George
Bothwell Librarian, Marilyn, for your visit on Monday afternoon. We always enjoy your reading sessions!
We began our new Core French unit; Christmas
vocabulary, this week. One of the videos we enjoyed was: Quand
le Père Noël.wmv - YouTube
Through Santa
puppetry and song, the children learned their prepositions in French: sur, sous, dans, devant, derrière, à côté de. See photos 30 to
33.
Merci beaucoup, Imogen,
for bringing the book, Counting to Christmas. We have been counting down the days using a
red piece of yarn and making knots.
Hunter and Corbin are
featured in their winter gear! PLEASE
make sure you LABEL your child’s ski pants, boots and other winter attire. We have many similar boots and ski pants this
year.
Photos 17 to 24 are
from a story the children read in pairs.
They read I Can See Christmas by David Booth in pairs. The
activity involved reading comprehension (cloze procedure, questioning at
different levels), which is one of our reading goals, as discussed at the
interviews. The children did a
comparison/contrast page of climates; winter/Christmas in Canada vs
Hawaii/Mexico/Philippines.
Lukas did a fabulous job as Star of the
Week! Lukas is a middle child, with an
older and younger sister. He loves spending family time with his mom,
dad and his sisters. He enjoys baseball,
water polo, water sliding and hockey. He exercises in the summer on his
trampoline. He has visited Lego land.
Earlier in the week, the
children learned about Kwanzaa. We made
Kwanzaa place mats with kinaras on them, which we will use during our Multicultural
breakfast on the 16th. We
discussed the 7 principles of Kwanzaa (see photo 16). Ask your child to tell you about some of the
principles and the significance of the colours of the candles on the kinara. We
also made paper dolls and coloured them.
Check out the following Kwanzaa videos:
The last few photos
“show of”’ some of our PRINTING BOOK samples. We wrote a poem about Peppermint
Candy and today’s printing was a joke.
This afternoon we
will begin to learn about Diwali. On
Friday afternoon, the Grade 2s will be making clay dijas, which they will paint
later on next week and place on a decorative coaster they will design. While Gr. 2s are making dijas, the Grade 3s
will be making their sugar cube houses with the other Gr. 3 classes.
Tumblebooks website has CHANGED!
THE OLD LINK NO LONGER WORKS.
To access Tumble books NOW go to
the RPL website; http://www.reginalibrary.ca/databases/db_ebooks.html
From
here, scroll down and choose Tumblebooks.
Have a great rest of
the week one and all! Stay warm!
Ms Selimos
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