We had another busy week in grade 2!
*We were unable to complete our spelling test on Friday, October 2nd, so it will be moved to Monday, October 5th*
In language arts this week, we talked about the different types of sentences. We learned the difference between statements, exclamatory sentences, questions, and commands. Students wrote different types of sentences about a picture of a lion that we saw. We will continue to work on this next week.
In science this week, we looked at pictures of items and wrote some sentences to communicate our thinking about the items. We used 'I see..' 'I wonder...' and 'I think...' sentences to describe our thinking. We also began talking about how different materials are made. Did you know that glass is made from sand?
On Tuesday, we attended an assembly put on by the grade 3s about Orange Shirt Day. We learned about what Orange Shirt Day is for and what a residential school was.
In Phys Ed with Mr V this week, we learned how to play Four Square! It is a fun game that many students have been playing during recess.
In math this week, we started practicing writing big numbers using words as our introduction to place value and quantities to 1000. We will continue this over the next few weeks as we learn to identify digits in numbers that can be found in the thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones places.
As we are learning about quantities to 1000 in math, we will be taking a break from our first 300 high frequency words for our spelling test for a couple of weeks. Instead, we will be getting our spelling words from numbers so that we can be more successful in both math and spelling! Our sentences for next week will still be based off of the spelling rules we are reviewing in class, which will be long vowels for the coming week.
Our words for Friday, October 9th are:
Zero
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Sentence 1: Jane said that she will bake a lime cake.
Sentence 2 will be a mystery sentence.
On October 1st, we made calendars for the month with some important dates to keep in mind! Students brought these home for you to take a look at. We also did our first Halloween-inspired art activity by using curved lines and shading to create a zoomed-in picture of a pumpkin!
Upcoming important dates:
Wednesday, October 7th: Picture Day
Monday, October 12th: Thanksgiving - No School
Monday, October 19th: Non-instructional Day - No school
Wednesday, October 28th: Fun Lunch (if ordered)
Thursday, October 29th: Halloween celebrations at school
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