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Week of December 18-22

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  What we Learned This Week December 11-15 Literacy: In Literacy this week, students were introduced to narrative story writing. Students viewed short films such as Partly Cloudy and Pip to demonstrate the elements of a story: characters, setting, problem and solution. Students also learned that the characters and setting are introduced in the beginning of the story, the problem is introduced in the middle, and the solution at the end of the story. Students then participated in a "Roll a Story" activity about either winter or Christmas to brainstorm ideas for their narrative stories.  Students also learned how we can hook our reader using sounds, action, dialogue, imagery and questions.  They then planned out their stories in their graphic organizer and began drafting the beginning, middle and end.  Students also focused on correct errors in sentences such as, punctuation and capitalization. Students learned about when to capitalize using the acronym MINTS.  Nu...
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Week of December 11-15

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  What we Learned This Week December 11-15 Literacy: In Literacy this week, we focused on adding conjunctions such as " because", "so" and "but" to create sentences about Winter Solstice. Students also practiced orally reading their sentences as many students will be sharing their sentences at our Winter Concert next week! Numeracy: In math this week students were placed in their targeted math groups for our unit on shape and space. Grade 2's focused on identifying the faces, edges and vertices of 3D shapes.  Grade 3's focused on classifying polygons as either regular or irregular by looking at the length of their sides and their angles. They also explored right angles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines and intersecting lines.  Today, students looked at the artwork of Pablo Picasso to make their very own Picasso art pieces using polygons on Google Slides. Students reviewed the characteristics that make a polygon: needs to be 2D/flat, have straigh...
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Week of November 27-December 1

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 What we Learned This week November 27-December 1 Literacy: In Literacy this week, we focused on identifying, understanding and correcting sentence fragments. First, we learned what makes a complete sentence which includes a subject and a verb. Then as a class, we practiced identifying them in sentences and then correcting sentence fragments that were either missing the subject or the verb. Students then practiced independently correcting sentences fragments and elaborating on their sentences by adding adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.  Next week, students will be focusing on adding conjunctions such as " because", "so" and "but".  Numeracy: In math this week students were placed in their targeted math groups for our unit on shape and space. Grade 2's focused on identifying 2D shapes and 3D shapes as well as sorting 2D shapes by two attributes. The Grade 3's worked on recognizing polygons and naming polygons based on their number of sides.  Telus Spa...
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Week of November 20-24

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What We Learned This Week November 20-24   Literacy: This week in writing, students read the book Too Many Toys   for their 5 finger personal narrative assessment following the plan, draft, revise, share routine and using the prompt: What is your favourite toy? Students were assessed on their ability to follow the organizational format of a 5 finger story (topic sentence, detailed supporting sentences, an event and a feeling). Students were also assessed on their ability to add adjectives, verbs, adverbs, similes and triple scoop words to make their sentences more interesting. Furthermore, students were also assessed on writing conventions such as, spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure.  Students continued with their targeted phonics group and targeted literacy groups.  Numeracy:  In math this week, students finished their data and graphing unit. In this unit, the following learning intentions were addressed: Grade 2 and Grade 3: I can  Generat...
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Week of Nov 6-16

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  What We Learned Nov 6-Nov 16 Literacy: In literacy last week, students continued with their mini poetry unit and created poems about bats. Students also created Remembrance Day acrostic poems using the words POPPY or REMEMBER. Today, students wrote about Remembrance Day and answered one of the following questions: What does peace mean to you? What does it mean to be brave? Why is Remembrance Day important to recognize?  It is Metis week this week. In writing, students read the book The Giving Tree by Metis author and illustrator Leah Dorian. Students reflected on what they would give back to the tree and why.  Students also practiced spelling and reading the Grade 2 and Grade 3 High Frequency Word list which can be found in our Google Classroom under literacy. We have also added activities that you can do with your student to help them learn to spell and read these words.  Students continued with their targeted phonics group and targeted literacy groups.  Nume...
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Week of October 30-Nov 3

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                                                     What We Learned This Week: October 30-Nov 3 Literacy: In literacy this week, we began a mini unit on poetry. Students learned what poetry might look like, sound like, feel like and what poetry makes us think about.  Students read various poems together as a class to identify how a poem is similar and differnet compared to a story. As a class, we read poems by Shel Silverstein. We also practice choral reading the poem Bats by Jack Prelutsky and identified the different aspects of poetry in his poem such as repetition. Students then read the book Stelluna and watched an educational video on bats to learn more facts about bats. Students began creating their own poems about bats using information about their appearance, diet, habitat, and other interesting facts. Students will be finishing these poe...
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Week of October 23-27

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  What We Learned This Week: October 23-27 Literacy: In literacy this week, we began working on a descriptive paragraph about a monster the students created after reading the story Monsters Love Underpants to provide them with inspiration for brainstorming.  We began by planning the monster, adding very descriptive details using adjectives, and then we learned about similes using the words like or as.  The grade 2 & 3's are very excited to revise their writing and read them to their Grade 5/6 buddies next week. In phonics, students were exploring the long /e/ sound looking at the vowel team of ea.  Numeracy:  In math this week, it was Pumpkin math! Students were exploring estimation and skip coutning by using pumpkin seeds. Students created an initial estimate without looking inside the pumpkin, then opened up the pumpkin to make a better estimation using a benchmark, and then used skip counting to count the actual number of seeds. Students then compared the...
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