Weekly News 10-3-25

 Weekly News for 2-P 10-3-25

*Library books on Monday and sneakers on Tuesday for PE     

*There is no school on Friday, October 10th for a Professional Development Day or  Monday, October 13th for Indigenous Peoples Day

    

*In math we worked on skip counting patterns with 2s, 5s, 10s and 100s. Students filled in number grids with 3 digit numbers. We explored odd and even numbers and practiced identifying patterns in a series of numbers. We also reviewed addition patterns with doubles facts as they relate to odd/even numbers. We learned some fun new games to help us practice our skills.

*During reading workshop we continued our focus on the genre of fiction and practiced giving evidence that a book falls into this category. We also worked on identifying the author’s message in a book and answering questions about a fictional text with complete sentences ( a challenging skill that takes a lot of practice). 

*In writing workshop we worked with poetry, focusing on a place poem. Each child chose a special place and brainstormed sensory details about that place, before writing their first draft. Later in the week we learned to add a simile to our poem and then revised and edited our drafts. Our connected grammar work was about singular and plural nouns.

*We have completed our fourth spelling unit on short 0 words. Next up is short u words. Our phonics work this week focused on reviewing silent e exception rules and -es ending rules. 

*This week our science work centered on a new investigation called “How Could You Get More Birds to Come to Your Bird Feeder.” In this lesson, students investigated which kinds of birds are likely to visit a bird feeder based on what they eat. Students drew their own bird feeder design to attract a specific type of bird and then built a prototype of their bird feeder using available materials. To finish the unit we learned about a colony of bats and its two habitats - we compared and contrasted them and all the biodiversity that surrounded them in their habitats.

Playing Odd and Even Race in math

Sharing our published place poems!

Illustrating our place poems

Books, snacks, jammies and friends

It was fun to hear each other's poems!

PJ Day Group Shot

Our final Biodiversity investigation

We loved a visit from a student's father and grandmother. Hearing a story read aloud in French was so much fun!

Sorting animals by their classification group

Place Poems

We each shared a simile that we added to our poems.

Busy engineers building their birdhouse prototypes

Playing Race to 100 to practice place value skills.

Proud artists!