Week 34

Welcome to the Grade 2 Newsletter

Important Dates

• April 29 - Swimming during 1 hour PE class starts
• April 29 - Talent Show Rehearsal (3:15-5:15)
• April 30 - Talent Show
• May 1 - Labor Day Holiday
• May 9 - April/May Birthday Lunch (12:10-12-50)

Swimming

Remember that this week our students have started swimming during the one hour class. As a reminder each classes swimming days are:

• Sunday - 2R
• Wednesday - 2K
• Thursday - 2S

Students will need to wear their full PE uniform in all 30 minute classes for the remainder of the year, including shorts, t-shirt, and sneakers.

ES Talent Show This Monday!

Tickets are on sale in Ms. Dolly's Room before school and during lunch/recess.

Sunday, April 29th is the mandatory rehearsal in the CAC Theatre from 3:15 - 5:15. All students must have a way to go home; the late bus service is not available. Students will be dismissed from the CAC Theatre at 5:15.

All Choir students will attend the Choir rehearsal on Sunday, April 29th, then come directly to the CAC Theatre for the remainder of the rehearsal.

The Talent Show will be for ALL ACTS beginning at 5:30 - 7:30 on April 30th. The Show will end by 8pm. ALL ACTS must come to the Theatre at 5pm, performance ready.

ES Talent Show - April 30th, 2018

Tickets - 30LE per seat

• Performances: 5:30-6:15
• Intermission: 6:15-6:30
• Performances: 6:30-7:15
• Show ends 7:30pm.

Thank you for your continued support. Please contact Ms. Dolly for any further clarifications or questions.

ES Talent Show Team

From the library - Used Book Sale, May 8 to 10

End of year dates for students from the library

• May 8-10 Used book sale
• May 15 Last day for check out
• May 22 Last day for classes; All books are due
• May 29 Summer check out starts
• May 8 to 10 Used Book Sale

We are getting ready for our annual used book sale, this year from May 8 to 10. We welcome donations of used books for all ages in saleable condition. This is a good time for departing families to dispose of books before packing. We will soon have a donation box at the front gate.

Core Value Books

The core value for April is COURAGE. We will be sending home the core value book about courage: Drum Dream Girl. Please read it with your child, then return it to school for the next student to take home.

• What is the definition of courage? The core value definition of courage is “be brave in words and actions.”  What would your students add to this? What does this mean to them?
• Discuss with your kids how courage... 
• Is used by adults in the workplace, 
• Is used by students outside of school, 
• Applies to school situations, 
• Benefits when mastered, 
• Consequences of not possessing it. 

What’s Going on This Week in Grade 2

Readers’ Workshop

Our readers are enjoying reading poetry. Students will learn that many poems contain images- words that give us pictures in our minds. The more practice reading poems will help our little readers become aware of these internal mind pictures. Students will choose poems that they like and illustrate the image they see, or if they see several images they will divide the poem up and create a picture book. Our readers will work independently and with a partner to create their own picture book.

Writers’ Workshop

Students will be writing poetry along with reading a lot of it. We will be concentrating on how students can give their poems music by paying attention to where poets put words and where poets don't put words. Poets try a few different ways of breaking up their lines, reading the poem aloud after each try, until the poem is written in a way that sounds just right. Students will also be thinking about a big idea, a big feeling, and then find the small moment, image, or object that holds that big feeling, that big idea.

Math

This week the Module 7 assessment will be sent home to review strengths and challenges with your child. Please, don't forget to check your child's folder, sign the assessment and send it back to school by the end of this week.

This week we will start Module 8: Time, Shapes, and Fractions as Equal Parts of Shapes. During this unit we will focus on Topic A: Attributes of Geometric Shapes and on Topic D: Applications of Fractions to Tell Time. These next 5 days we will learn how to describe, build, and identify two-dimensional shapes based on their attributes (number of sides and angles). We will also use these attributes to draw different polygons including triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, and hexagons. Students will also learn to draw and identify different quadrilaterals including rectangles, rhombuses, parallelograms, and trapezoids.

Students can use a lot of extra practice drawing square angles using the corner of an index card or other object that already has a square corner. Students should also be able to utilize different strategies for drawing parallel lines.

Please refer to the Unit 8 Parent Newsletter for more details about this unit.

Mathletics Focus Lessons: Count Sides and Corners (corners here mean angles)

Social Studies

This week we will be starting a new Social Studies Unit titled: We Live In Urban and Rural Communities. We will be learning about what is a community and how our wants and needs affect the facilities available in a community. Students will explore the difference between goods and services to help them understand the different kinds of facilities are available in a community.

Essential Questions:

What is a community?
How do communities meet our needs?
Why do people choose to live where they do?

Circles

Focus: displaying courage especially when working with others, in the classroom, at school, at home, and in the community.