Ms.Penford and Mrs.Sharma's Grade Two Class 2025-2026

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Dec 15th-19th

Our Favourite Day of the Year - In Social Studies we are learning about culture and traditions - We read the book Our Favourite Day of the Year in which students in a classroom like ours shared their families favourite days and how they celebrate - We then wrote about our own personal favourite traditions with our families - Students shared so many special moments that they love celebrating with you, it was lovely to hear their stories Phonics -ild, -old, - ind, - olt, ost -we reviews words with different ending patterns -all of these ending use a long vowel sound when saying them -Y spells /i/ at the end of a one-syllable word such as the word my. Y spells /e/ at the end of a two syllable word such as baby. -The consonant LE pattern is a final stable syllable. That means the LE pattern is always at the end of a word and always makes the same sound. /L/ like in the words table and puzzle. *Please check your childs RED folder this weekend and re-read the decodables t...

Dec 8th-12th

High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are: Fact vs. Opinion - We learned how to distinguish facts from opinions - A fact is something we know to be true because there is evidence to confirm it - An opinion is something we think or feel - We then took notes about jellyfish while watching some interesting videos - Then we used our notes to create an informative text Comparing Numbers - We learned how to compare numbers using terms like: greater than, less than and equal too - We reviewed the signs for greater than >, less than < and equal than + - Inequality is an imbalance between two quantities - We played a card game where we practiced building three digit numbers and identifying which one was larger Natural Resources - We learned about 6 natural resources in Canada: agriculture, livestock, ...

Dec 1st - 5th

Winter Bears - We drew winter bears wearing festive sweaters in Art - We learned how to add details using fine lines for fur - We used pattens to decorate their sweaters High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are: Even and Odd Numbers - All numbers are either even or odd - An even number can be split into two equal groups, an odd number cannot - To determine if a number is even or odd we look to the ones place. If that number is 0,2,4,6, or 8 the number is even. If that number is 1,3,5,7,9, that number is odd December Calendar - We completed our December calendar in our visual journals - There are so many fun and exciting things happening this month - Some key dates include: ...

Nov 24th-27th

We will miss you Ms. May! Thank you to Ms. May for all that she has done to keep our school clean and functioning so well. Good luck in your future endeavours! High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are: Phonics -ING: is an ending we can add to verbs to change their tense. -We add the -INMG ending to verbs when we are talking about actions that continuously happen in the present or past. When a verb has the -ING ending, a helping verb comes before it: I am going. He is going. We are going. She was going. They were going Closed Syllables: A closed syllable has only one vowel and the vowel is followed by one or more consonants. The vowel sound is short. i.e. hop, kick and fast Open Syllables: An open syllable has only one vowel and the vowel ...

Nov 17th - Nov 21st

High Frequency Words We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are: some, her, would, make, like, him, into, time, has look Phonics -When using a past tense verb (an action that has already happened) we add the ending -ED. -There are 3 ways to pronounce the -ED ending: /d/ : If a voiced sound comes before -ED we say /d/ like in called or tamed /t/: If an unvoiced sound comes before -ED we say /t/ like in sniffed and helped /ed/: if the sound /d/ or /t/ comes before -Ed, -ED makes two sounds: /e/ and /d/ and the E is pronounced with a schwas, just like the E in -ES. - Please check your child's red folder this weekend and read the decodables we practiced this week - If your child did not draw, or finish, their picture you could encourage them to do so Winter Count -After the first snow falls, Indigenous pe...