Welcome!

Hello grade 2's! (And parents!)

Welcome to our class blog. This is the place I will send weekly update to parents so they get a sense of what we're working on in class. I'll also be posting interesting and informative links for students very soon related to what we are doing in class. The year has started off with a bang, we're already working very hard in the classroom. In math we're doing a pattern unit, using materials, art and even ourselves to create and recognize patterns! We have even been dissecting the patterns we find in stories.

We have been doing a lot of writing in just a few days. The students have been creating beginning, middle and end stories using pictures and words. We also have free writing almost every day, this is a quiet time where students can feel free to write bout whatever they would like. Some examples are poems, diary entries, stories, news articles, etc. Perhaps talk to your children about some more ideas you can brainstorm together that they can write about during this time!

In Social Studies we just began talking about the differences between rural and urban communities, we will be trying to make those words stick (rural and urban) because it’s easy to confuse the two!

Very soon in Science we will start exploring liquids. We will discover the different kinds and be doing a lot of experiments in our class. Get ready to become scientists grade 2s!

That’s all for now, I will most links and more updates soon!

Ms. Q