Our Week
Friday, October 13th
Pumpkinella
Tuesday, Oct 31st !
We will be hosting Pumpkinella on Tuesday, October 31 in the gathering space. This exciting event invites families to bring in their creatively decorated pumpkin. During the day, the students are able to come and visit the pumpkin patch and admire all the amazing pumpkins. Drop off for the ROS family pumpkins is on Monday, October 30 between 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. After Pumpkinella, pick up for the pumpkins will be on Tuesday, October 31 between 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Please look for further details regarding Pumpkinella.
CAFE: (F) is for Fluency
Strategy: Backup and Reread Text
Community
We have begun to explore the idea community and the various communities that we all belong to. This will lead us to our Social Studies study of a Prairie Community and Communities of the Past. We have discussed how we can belong to multiple communities at once, as well as the various communities that we belong to. Some of our students examples of their communities are their sports teams, their neighborhoods, their schools, their family and even the Earth. Please ask your child to tell you about some of the different communities they belong to and what it means to be a part of a community.
MATH:
We are so excited to have begun our first Math Inquiry of the year; The Masloppy Family: Organizing and Collecting. Please view the book on YouTube if you wish:
Students will be counting inventory 'items' into the several hundreds to strengthen their understanding of number composition, addition, place-value and number patterns.
The Big Ideas and Strategies we will be examining along the way and by extension include; Compensation (5+3 can also be solved as 4+4 by using our doubles facts to rearrange an equation), Doubles, Unitizing (grouping objects and skip-counting by one's, two's, five's, ten's, hundred's etc), Place Value, Commutativity (a+b = b+a), five and ten-frames, Friendly Numbers, Tagging, Counting On, the Open Number-Line and Counting Backwards.
Please ask me about my two days of strategies!
Math Vocabulary Words we will be using and discussing. Please have a conversation with your child about them:
Accuracy: Is my answer true? How do I know for sure? Does it matter?
Strategy: What did you already know that helped you find your answer? Did you have more than one way that worked?
Efficiency: I found my answer, but is there a faster, more accurate way? Is this important?
Grouping: Having the same number of objects inside of each group that I am counting. Why is this important? What does it let me do?
Organizing: How can I arrange my objects so that they can be counted efficiently and kept track of?
Wetlands
Dear Parents and Guardians,
We are very excited to have a local water engineer visit or grade 2 students on Wednesday, October 18. As part of her visit, on Wednesday, October 18th, we will walk down to the local wetlands from 10:30am - 11am to look first hand at the important role this area plays in our community. Please contact your child’s teacher should you be able to join us.
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