Grade 2 Weekly Newsletter
Important Dates
- Feb. 7 - ES Math Family Night (4:15 pm - 5:15 pm)
- Feb. 8 - ES Family Picnic (PreK: 11:00 am - 11:30 am; KG-Gr. 5: 12:10 pm - 12:50 pm)
- Feb. 13 - ES Assembly - 2R (7:55 am - 8:25 am, ES Hall)
- Feb. 22 - Lego Creativity Celebration
- Feb. 22 - ES Trimester 2 Ends
- Feb. 22 - ES After School Activities Session 2 Ends
Math Challenge
Every week we will have a rich math task that challenges students’ thinking and helps them transfer their learning of concepts. We encourage students to have a growth mindset and give it a try.
The CAC cafeteria workers sold 198 lunches the first week of school. In the 2nd week, they sold 24 more than they did the first week. In the 3rd week, they sold 12 lunches less than they sold the 2nd week. In the 4th week, the cafeteria workers sold 29 lunches more than what they sold the 3rd week. How many lunches were sold in all 4 weeks of school?
Family Math Night
Mark your calendars for Feb. 7, 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm. Come play math games with your child.
Mark your calendars for Feb. 7, 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm. Come play math games with your child.
Games develop fluency with math skills and problem solving. Experience the fun of learning
through games!
Our Family Math Night games are intended to help build fluency in math in a fun and engaging way.
You’ll find the rules and instructions for a wide range of math skills games using a variety of different resources, including playing cards and dice. We’ve assembled games for different skill levels ranging
from Grades Pre-K through 5, all with an educational math twist.
Did you know? The games are available to be checked out from the library after Family Math Night,
if you would like to play them again at home. Ask your child to talk with the librarians.
Locations: Grades 1-5 are in the ES Hall, KG in the Drama room and Pre K in their own room.
Family Picnic
Pre K: 11:00 am - 11:30 am; KG-Gr.5: 12:10 pm - 12:50 pm
Due to popular demand, we will be having another BBQ for picnic day next Thursday, February 8.
Kindly sign up through the google form (below) if interested! There is a google sign-up form
for each grade. For siblings, please sign up each child in their respective grade order form.
The DEADLINE for orders will be on Tuesday, February 6th by 5:00 p.m.
We kindly ask that parents drop off the money in a labelled envelope to the ES office
(name, class code and order). Note the following grade level lunch times:
- KG to Grade 2 at 12:10pm
IMPORTANT: Unfortunately we will not be able to take orders on the day of the BBQ and
we will have to cancel orders that have not been paid by Tuesday the 6th.
We look forward to seeing you all!!
Core Value Books
The core value for February is CREATIVITY. We will be sending home the core value book with the theme of creativity: The Almost Terrible Playdate. Please read it with your child, then return it to school for the next student to take home.
Exercises for Boosting Creativity: When facing a problem, define the issue clearly and then practice divergent thinking (ex: developing multiple solutions/outcomes rather than just one solution). Set time aside each day for creative thinking or creative activities (such as: writing poems or using an everyday household object in a new way).
A Field Trip to Stabl Antar Dreams School (Saturday, February 10th)
The Service Learning office is planning a field trip to Stabl Antar Dreams School for Elementary School students to deliver Pass the Parcel donations. You can find all the information here.
From the Counseling Corner
Dear CAC Parents,
In guidance we are working on emotional management and discussing strong emotions, how they make our bodies feel and calming down strategies. It is important for kids to understand that everyone gets upset but that we are all still responsible for our behaviors.
We discussed the concept of “flipping our lids” and how to calm down when our emotions take over our thinking. We are sharing calming down strategies and practicing different ways to calm ourselves down when upset. Please share with your children strategies that you use when you have a strong emotion.
This month’s Core Value is Creativity. The elementary school defines creativity as ‘being inspired to imagine and explore’. A lot of the time when we think of creativity we think of the arts. However, creativity is more complex and fascinating. In elementary, will be spending the month exploring the idea of creativity and have shared this article with the teachers. You can help support our efforts at home by investigating the concept with your child.
How do you define creativity? Is there anything that might block creativity?
Attached is a thought-provoking article in the New York Times about developing creativity.
Mathletics
Students have customized lessons on Mathletics, please encourage your children to go on Mathletics to complete activities. Do not hesitate to send an email to your kid’s teacher if they have any problem working in the website.
What’s Going on This Week in Grade 2
Readers’ Workshop
In the Series Book Club unit, students compare and contrast characters across texts. This week students will discuss ways in which reading partners can support one another to increase understanding. Readers will notice the struggles that characters face and discuss how they resolved them. They will also think creatively to come up with alternate ways the characters could have resolved them.
Essential Question:
- How do the patterns I notice help me understand the series?
- How can I work together in helpful and meaningful ways with my reading partner?
Some suggested discussions to do at home:
- Read texts closely to determine what it says explicitly and make logical inferences from it.
- Cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.
- Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters.
- Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
- Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Writers’ Workshop
In the Reading About Writing unit, writers write opinion pieces about the books they read in which they introduce the book, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement. This week students will add quotes to support their opinions.
Essential Question:
- What makes opinion writing more persuasive?
Some suggested activities you can do at home:
- Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
Math- Module 5: Addition and Subtraction Within 1,000 with Word Problems up to 100 In Module 5, students build upon their mastery of renaming place value units and extend their work with conceptual understanding of the addition and subtraction algorithms to numbers within 1,000, always with the option of modeling with materials or drawings. Throughout the module, students continue to focus on strengthening and deepening conceptual understanding and fluency.
Some of the objectives are:
- Subtract multiples of 100 and some tens within 1,000.
- Use the associative property to make a hundred in one addend.
- Use the associative property to subtract from three-digit numbers and verify solutions with addition.
Essential Questions
- How can strategies help me to quickly add and subtract?
- How do I explain my mathematical thinking and why is that important?
Key understandings of Module 5:
- I can add and subtract numbers from 0 to 1000 using different strategies based on place value and regrouping.
- I can mentally add or subtract 10 and 100 from any number from 100 to 900
- I can explain why various addition or subtraction strategies work using numbers, drawings, or objects.
*Don’t forget to check out Eureka Math at https://greatminds.org/
*Module 5: Topic A, Lesson 1-7 Parent Tips Letter
Science
We will finish our unit: Leap into Space this week. Students will finish the assessment and will share their learning with one another.
Essential Questions:
- What do we know about our place in space?
- What is our solar system and how do we fit in it?
Some suggested discussions you can have at home:
- Discuss the solar system using unit vocabulary:
stars, star color, star brightness, moon, lunar, sun, sun's position, sun's size, solar, Earth, Earth's rotation, cycles, revolve, position, orbit, axis, phases, sky patterns, phases of the moon, solar system, telescope
- Discuss how patterns in the sky remain stable but appear to move because of the Earth’s motion.
Circles
Focus: Displaying creativity especially when working with others, in the classroom, at school, at home, and in the community.
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