​Grade 2 Week at a Glance (Feb.3-7)

 Tuesday Night – Pack library books to be sent back Wednesday.

 Nightly – read good fit book, practice sight words, practice sound teams introduced up to this point.  Students now have the option of reading books online on Raz-kids

Literacy:

Words of the Week: not, caught, because, favourite

Word Family:  -ot.  How many words can you think of that end with the –ot sound?

Sound Teams: ou/ow

We will be reviewing the ou & ow sound teams. Students will review that they can both make the same sound as in crown and count. However, “ow” can also make the long o sound as in row and grow.

Have your child practice reading words with these sound teams, such as the following: how, mouse, outside, shower, loud, know, blow, our, sour, clown, crow, etc.

We will also be looking at the suffixes s, es, ies     Have your child practice reading crows, boxes, clowns, parties, watches, puppies

Reading strategies: retell & summarizing nonfiction

We will continue to look at nonfiction and will practice retelling and summarizing the facts we learn in these books.

Writing: Leads

Students are learning how to “hook” their reader by writing a strong lead (first sentence). We will discuss a variety of strategies including; question lead, action lead, or using dialogue.

Math:  

We will continue our unit on addition and subtraction to 100.  In this unit, your child will be developing strategies for adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers, with and without regrouping.  We will use many models such as hundred charts, number lines, and base ten blocks.  Continue to have your child practice adding groups of 10 to one and two digit numbers and subtracting groups of 10 from one and two digit numbers.   Adding and subtracting multiples of ten is a good place to start!  For example ask your child:

 “9 + 40 =, 53 – 30=, 60 + 20= ,  93 – 40=”  It is important that your child is comfortable skip counting forward and backward by 10’s starting at different starting points to easily add and subtract two digit numbers.  Please practice this at home.  Ask your child to start counting at 77 and count back by tens (67, 57, 47, 37), start counting at 3 and count on by 10’s (3, 13, 23, 33, 43…).

Reminders/Important Dates:

Monday, Feb.10-coloured t shirt team activity

Feb.14-Shared snack sent in (optional). Please make sure Valentine cards come in on or before the 14th.       100 day collection…optional

Feb. 17 – Provincial Family Day – No School

 ​