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
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