Hi Families,
What an interesting week with all the snow we had! We've been watching it slowly melt away and hope to have some warmer Fall weather to enjoy this week.
Lost and Found is out on display in the front hallway. There is a variety of clothing to be identified, including several pairs of brand new pairs of gloves. We have walked through a couple of times as a class, picking out thing we recognize, but if you are at the school anytime soon, you may want to walk by yourself to have a look.
This week, students were (re)introduced to the monthly routine of letter writing, sharing what they learned and enjoyed in September, and what their goal is moving into the next month. Setting goals is tricky for students, and the grade 2s have had more practice with the concept of tools and strategies in the classroom, and how to make goals measurable. Please take a moment to read your child's letter with them, and write a short note on the back celebrating their work. My notes in pencil on your child's page are to help you understand what learning supports your child received during the writing process, as well as help you read any inventive spelling as necessary.
In math, we have been looking at odd and even numbers. One common miscommunication is, "Even is skip counting by 2". In reality, both even and odd are skip counting by 2. Even skip counting starts at 0 (or another even number), and odd skip counting starts at 1 (or another odd number). Even numbers can be grouped equally into 2. Students have been participating in a variety of exploratory activities in order to develop their understanding and automaticity of odd and even numbers. We continue to build the idea that we only need to look at the units place value to determine odd or even, as 10 is even, and everything in the tens/hundreds/thousands (and so on...) place value is a multiple (made from) tens.
We've been learning some new math games to practice odd and even. If you have not already done so, please send in your child's Math Folder so that we can send them home next week for sharing and home practice.
Students have also been working on ways to collect data and answer questions, through patterns and surveys. Ask your child which one they worked with this week.
In your child's mail folder this week, please find:
- RAZ Kids home login information.
- 2019/2020 Yearbook consent and ordering information. Please read carefully. You are not obligated to purchase a yearbook, but if you would like your child's picture to be in the yearbook, you must return the signed consent.
- Poetry Folder.
- Letters Home Folder.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Ms. Thomas
