This Week in Grade 2 Dear Parents – We celebrated two celebrations this week Halloween and Deepavali. The students studies each and got to witness a wonderful dance show with some yummy treats and traditions for Deepavali. They created books on Book Creator about them they will share with you at the end of the year with all their celebrations. They got to do 3 science experiments and lab reports this year and on Friday earned 10 stars and voted for a art party=) Pretty creative bunch! For Wondering Wednesday we got to learn about dry ice, pretty fascinating! Language Arts Alongside fluency that we practiced last week, students paid attention to the dialogue tags and adjusted their tone to the mood of the character. Students require comprehension skills in order to be able to adjust their tone appropriately. Another aspect of fluency that is important to practice is reading the text with a just right pace. Students listened to their own reading on the Ipad and completed their fluency checklist. Procedural writing continues with their science experiment this week. Students learned that writing a question and a hypothesis is the first step to their lab report. Important elements to include in their procedural writing would be the transition words such as first, next, later, finally and next to these words, they need to the action (verb) that they do such as put, pour, take etc. Math This week students finished learning about how to add two double digit numbers both with and without regrouping. We practiced showing our thinking with pictures and numbers and including appropriate equations. Students use number bonds of tens and ones, base ten block pictures and number lines to solve problems and even still many use manipulatives. We have also focused a lot of time on fact fluency but the class is still working on becoming more automatic with facts. Science Students tried different ways to change matter from solid to liquid this week. Some ways that the students explored with were putting ice under a hair dryer, putting it in the oven, under the sun, breaking it into small pieces. They timed how long it took to melt the ice and compared how long it took with the variety of ways. Students followed the scientific process while doing this experiment. Important Dates Monday Nov 6th - P.E. swimming Friday, 10th Nov - International Flag Parade - Your child can come to school wearing their traditional outfit from your country. Parents are welcome to watch the parade from 8:15 - 9:15 a.m. Dinner Questions What did you learn about dry ice? Which form of heat was the fastest way to melt ice?