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

  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 ...

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...

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: Expanding Sentences -This week (an next week!) we will continue to practice how to expand sentences with when, where, what and why. - We talked about a 'boring sentence' and then talking about the details that we can add to help readers get a clear picture of whats happening Counting within 1000 -We have been practicing count forward and backward by 1s within 1000 starting at any number. -This week, we used a 100s chart as a tool to help us with larger numbers as we counted forwards and backwards -Next week we will continue but use a number line as a tool Cardinal Directions -We learned that cardinal directions are the main directions like North, East, South, and West. They are super helpful because they always tell us exactly which way to go! -We learne...

High Frequency Words We will not do the spelling test next Friday because of the short week. We will add a new list to the blog next week. Place Value - In math we reviewed place value and learned how to identify the place value of digits in a four-digit number - To practice this skill we used base ten blocks, place value charts and played games with cards Gathering Information - In writing we learned how to gather information to write sentences about a topic - We learned some interesting facts about pufferfish! - Students are working on writing at least three sentences and then verifying them with an editing checklist to look for capitals, punctuation, clarity and spaces between words. Phonics - We reviewed magic e, also known as silent e or bossy e - When this e is at the end of a CVC word it makes the vowel say it's name. For example pin - pine - Please check your child's red folder this weekend and read the decodables we practiced this week - If your child did not draw, or ...