Friday November 6th, 2009.

Hello Grade Two Families,

This week we finished writing our first paragraph about our pumpkin PWIM picture!! I have made copies for the students to bring home on Monday. Our new PWIM picture was also revealed and some of our kids are in it! I will post it here for you to see very soon.

Our reading stamina is now at 23 minutes! Writing and Read to Someone is at 15 minutes. I have started making appointments with each child and we are working towards a specific goal. The goals focus on comprehension, accuracy, fluency, or expanding vocabulary.

In math we worked on counting by 1's, 5's and 10's using coins. Give your child a handful of coins and have them count it for you. We also played a game called Number Neighbours to reinforce counting with ten rods and number cubes.

TCBY treat day was a huge success. The kids were all very excited on Thursday.

On Friday November 20th we will be going to the Globe Theatre to see Peter Pan. Report cards will also be coming home on this day.

We are going to be starting a unit on magnets. I have signed us up for two workshops at the Science Centre on December 2. One is called Magnets and the other one is Crafty Science. We will be heading there after morning recess so that we can tour the Science Centre. We will be taking our lunches there. Our workshops are at 1:00 and 2:00.

Please write the word "Monkey" in your child's agenda so that I know you have read the blog!

Mrs. Shannon Sanchuck