Dear Parents –
We have a few special events
happening to make for another exciting week at school.
Thank you to the parents who
are coming in this week to help students make their Christmas tree
ornaments. This is a wonderful way to
kick off the holiday season at Melawati.
We have our Mini Academies
scheduled for Thursday, November 23.
Thank you to the parents who volunteered to lead an activity. These are always special events and the kids
love learning from our very talented parent community.
Just as a reminder, our Home Learning is posted on our blog. While
these activities are optional, students are encouraged to complete one activity
of their choice each week. Students have an opportunity to share their
activities each week and we’ve really enjoyed looking at some of the projects
students have brought in to class.
Here’s a peek at our week
ahead:
Monday (Day 5) – Library and
World Language
Tuesday (Day 6) – Music and
P.E.
Wednesday (Day 1) – Art and
World Language
Thursday (Day 2) – Music and
P.E.
Friday (Day 3) – World
Language
Learning
Celebration
Mark your calendars! Our Grade 2 Learning Celebration is scheduled
for Friday, December 8 from 10:10 – 10:45.
Students will have the opportunity to share with you some math games,
addition and subtraction strategies, and problem solving strategies that
they’ve been learning this semester. An
invitation will be sent closer to the date so we can determine how
many parents will attend.
Reader’s
Workshop
In our Reader’s Workshop
students will continue practicing reading and discussing books with their
partner. We’ll work on strategies to
help students hold on to their thinking when reading longer books. Students will practice writing their ideas,
questions, and thinking on sticky notes throughout the book and at the end of
chapters. These notes form the basis of
collaborative conversations with their reading partner.
Writer’s
Workshop
We continue our work writing
like scientists this week. With a new experiment this week, students will have
an opportunity to continue to develop their skills writing the procedures. We’ll emphasize the importance of using exact
measurements, science vocabulary and detailed steps as we write our
procedures.
Science
This week we continue
learning about the differences between physical and chemical changes. Through our readings and experiments, we’ll
explore how chemical changes are irreversible and create a new substance. During our experiments this week, students
will have an opportunity to see matter go through both physical and chemical
changes.
Math
We start our week learning
how to solve multi-step story problems with same and mixed operations. During our work on these problems, students
will be encouraged to have flexible thinking in order to combine or take apart
numbers to help their accuracy and efficiency.
As with all story problems, students are expected to show their thinking
with a picture, equation and answer that includes the label. We’ll end the week working on double-digit
addition. As we work on double-digit
addition, and later subtraction, students are expected to show their thinking
using base-ten models, number lines, or another strategy that demonstrates
their conceptual understanding of place value.
Be on the lookout for some interesting strategies that may be new to
you!
Dinner
Questions
What are the 3 R’s to being
safe? What do they mean?
What are some chemical
changes that you might see at home? How
do you know?
Practice a reading
partnership with your parents. What are
some questions you can ask them about the book you read?
