Spirit Week and Halloween Fun

CONGRATULATIONS GRADE 2!!
The grade 2's reached 1000 DOJO points! 
They enjoyed an afternoon of 
fun and activities.

                          

A BIG THANK YOU TO MRS. ALEXANDER'S GRADE 3

CLASS FOR INVITING US TO THEIR CLASS FOR

A BLOCK OF HALLOWEEN ART!

UPCOMING THIS WEEK AND UPDATES

SPIRIT WEEK**A gentle reminder that there are no costumes on Thurdsay (except for students that are bringing in props for the oral presentation). **

In Language:

In Language, we are working on making connections
to assist us with our reading comprehension.

Ask your child how they made a text to text connection
to the book,  'The Relatives Came' .

In Science:

How do animals adapt to the environment?

Art:

Creating our very own shoe art with different 

kinds of lines:

Math:

Have your child try out this "Toy Toss" game.

In this activity, students predict where a 

numbered ball will roll by determining which

ten that number is closest to.

Copy and paste the following link to practice this skill.

https://www.mathup.ca/games/grade2/toytoss

Halloween Oral Presentation

Hello Parents,

A note was sent home on Thursday (see below) regarding our upcoming homework for this week. Homework bags will be replaced with a short Halloween oral presentation. Students are encouraged to be creative  by using props, expression and lots of enthusiasm!!

Looking forward to the presentations!!

HOMEWORK NEXT WEEK...

Homework will be a little bit different next week.

Homework bags will be replaced with a Halloween oral presentation. I am sending home 4 Halloween poems

(also below). The students will choose ONE poem to

practice orally at home. They will be presenting the poem

on Halloween ( Thursday, October 31st) to the class.

They should use an audible voice and expression for the presentation. They could use props if they wish. They

could also have key words of the poem to refer too.

I will give them one block to practice in class with a

friend next week.

Be creative and have fun!!

Choose ONE of the following poems.

Here are the poems that your child could choose from:

The Witch

I’m a mean old witch with a hat,

And I ride on my broom with my cat,

And my shoes are pointed,

And my chin is too,

So you’d better watch out,

Or I might scare you.

Boo!

Hallowe’en Friend

Orange Mr. Pumpkin,

The window frames your grin.

Long after I have gone to bed,

Your candle burns within.

I worked so hard to carve your mouth,

Those circles for your eyes.

And now you light this special night -

A Hallowe’en surprise!

I’m Waiting

I’m waiting…

for Hallowe’en to come,

for goblins to scowl,

for witched to howl,

for cats to yowl,

for ghosts to fly,

for werewolves to cry,

and then I’ll know it’s 

Hallowe’en!

Hallowe’en Manners

Hallowe’en will soon be here,

I like to trick-or-treat.

I’ll dress up in a costume,

And walk along the street.

It’s fun to knock at every door,

And scare the folks I meet.

And when they give me goodies,

I’ll thank them for my treats.

MODIFIED POEM

Fly, fly, fly little bats,
Fly, fly, fly little bats,
Fly, fly, fly little bats,
Halloween is here!

Crawl, crawl, crawl little spiders,
Crawl, crawl, crawl little spiders,
Crawl, crawl, crawl little spiders,
Halloween is here!

Creep, creep, creep little cats,
Creep, creep, creep little cats,
Creep, creep, creep little cats,
Halloween is here!

Float, float, float little ghosts,
Float, float, float little ghosts,
Float, float, float little ghosts,
Halloween is here!

A few updates...

Hello parents,
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving long weekend.

Just a few updates:

Today I sent home the assessment duotangs. Please look
through your child's assessment, sign the back page 
and return them to school on Monday. You will find assessment 
for many subject areas. Some of you have already received your
child's reading level. If you have not, please look for it in your child's assessment duotang.



Our week back was very busy.




Having some fun in math...playing a 
GREATER THAN and LESS THAN  game...





We are also working hard on Representing
two-digit number.

Working as a class on IXLmath.

In groups, the children had to show the number 32 in three different

ways using base-ten block. Here is an example:

The students worked very hard on thier THANKSGIVING WEEKEND  RECOUNTS...

COMING UP THIS WEEK 

Monday, October 7  

- Photo Day

Tuesday, October 8 

- 8:15 iWalk to School

- 1:30  Thanksgiving Mass

                 **** REMINDER ****

                               READERS PLEASE PRACTICE READING 

Friday, October 11 - P.D. Day

Monday, October 14th - Thanksgiving Day

MATH:

Representing 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100

A multiple of 10 is any number that can be shown as full groups of 10 

with no extras. 

Multiples of 10 all end in zero. Students in Grade 2 do not need to 

know the term

 “multiple.” Instead, you can call multiples of 10 the 10s numbers.

You can represent multiples of 10 using 10-frames filled with counters.

For example, 50 can be shown as five full 10-frames.

Full 10-frames can also be used to represent 10, 20, 30, 40, 60, 

70, 80, 90, and 100.

The 10s numbers can also be shown using stacks of 10 linking cubes. 

These stacks show the numbers 80 and 30.

If you show these numbers with tally marks, you will use only 

complete tallies with 

4 sticks and a line crossing them, and never tallies with leftover sticks. 

These groups of tally marks also show 80 and 30.

You can also represent groups of 10 using an abacus or a number rack, 

such as a Rekenrek. You will move over entire rows of beads but will

not move not partial rows. These number racks show 80 and 30, too.

Number lines also work for representing multiples of 10. 

A number line can be built from a number path, with marks

 showing where each number’s square ends.

If you want to show a big spread of numbers, you don’t show 

every number on the line. The number line below shows multiples 

of 10. Numbers appear 10, or a multiple of 10, 

apart. Just as 3 and 8 are 5 ones apart, 30 and 80 are 5 tens apart.

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Helping Your Child With New Words

You can help your child connect the words to the quantities 

they represent.

10	ten		60	sixty
20	twenty		70	seventy
30	thirty		80	eighty
40	forty		90	ninety
50	fifty		100	one hundred

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Helping Your Child

Provide opportunities for your child to count by 10s at home. 

For example:

•	If there are two boxes of 10 pencils, you could ask how many pencils  there are altogether.
•	You could show six piles of paper clips with 10 in each pile and ask  how many there are  altogether.
•	You could use tally marks to keep track of scores in a game or how  many times something happens.

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Definitions

10-frame: a frame that holds 10 counters in 2 rows of 5 squares each;
you place one counter in each square to show a particular number

linking cubes: interlocking cubes often used to represent quantities

number line: a line on which numbers are marked in sequence

number path: a counting tool in which each number in a series is 

contained within a cell, or rectangle

number rack (such as a Rekenrek): a rack with rows of 10 beads 

that can be slid to one side; 5 beads in each row are a different 

colour to help students visualize groups of 

numbers

represent: to show quantity; a single quantity can be represented 

in many ways, for example, with pictures, models, words, or actions

tally marks: groups of short lines used to show amounts; 

4 straight lines show 1, 2, 3, 4, and then a diagonal stick across

 those lines shows 5

LANGUAGE

In writing, we have been working on RECOUNTS. 

As a class, we recount our Terry Fox walk:

The students are working on recounting a fun day 

with a friend. 

HEALTH:

The focus in health has been healthy eating. We read the
book 'Eat Healthy, Feel Great' and had a discussion about green, 
yellow and red foods.