Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing and peaceful break!
In Language
Arts, we are working on reading, phonics and we will be putting a bigger focus
on our writing. We are writing in our journals
every week and we will be working on different writing projects throughout the
month. We will be continuing with our
weekly UFLI spelling and home reading programs.
In Math, we
are finishing up learning some addition strategies and then will move on to
subtraction. By the end of grade 2,
students should be able to add and subtract numbers with answers to 100 and
should be able to recall their facts with answers to 18 quickly and accurately. We will also finish up our unit on place
value this month.
In Science,
we are just finishing up our unit on Growth and Changes in Animals. We will be starting a new unit called
Properties of Solids, Liquids and Gases before the end of January. This unit gives us many chances for some fun
experiments.
In Social
Studies, we are finishing up our unit on Our Local Community. We will be starting our next unit,
Communities of Canada, before the end of January. We will be taking a closer look at two of
Canada’s communities (Prince Edward Island and Nunavut) and comparing the
similarities and differences with our own community.
In Religion,
we continue to work through our We Believe text book and we will be taking a
closer look at the Ten Commandments this month.
Please make
sure you are checking and signing your child’s agenda every day. This is a great form of communication between
school and home. Also, please help your
child to fill out their reading log and sign it before sending the book back to
school on Friday.
Happy new
year and best wishes for 2026!
Mrs. Shade