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

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:  boy, follow, came, want, show, also, around, form, three, small Phonics:  -We reviewed vowel teams:  It is when there are two or more letters that work together to make one vowel sound: ai,ay ee, ea, ey oa, ow, oe ie, igh *Please check your child's RED folder this weekend and re-read the decodables that we practiced this week  Light Exploration Through some hands on centres we learned that: 1. Light moves in a straight pathway.  2. When light rays bounce off a surface and send the image right back to you (reflection) 3. When light rays bend and make things look a bit wiggly or in a slightly different position (refraction). 4. When a prism or water droplets separate light into its many colours (dispersion) When exploring these concepts we...

  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: Art Cards - We are making art cards that families can purchase to support parent council - The theme is for spring so we made some colorful spring bouquets - We used markers, pastels and paints to create our artwork - Keep your eyes our for more information about purchasing art cards coming up! Pizza Fractions - We are learning about fractions in math - A great way to visualize fractions is with pizza slices - We represented fractions from 1/2 to 1/12 in our visual journals with pizzas Phonics: Vowel Teams - We are learning about vowel teams in phonics - Vowel teams occur when two vowels work together to make one sound - This week we learned about vowel teams that make the long E sound - ee,ea,ey, and vowel teams that make the long O sound - oa,ow and oe *...

 Part of Informative Writing - Students learned to identify the parts of informative writing     T - Topic sentence     F - Facts     C- Closing Sentence - Informative writing is like an ice cream sundae. The topic sentence is the cherry on top. The facts are all the yummy parts, the ice cream and the fudge. Then the closing sentence is like to cup at the bottom, that holds it all together. 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: Data Through Storytelling - Indigenous people often share important knowledge (data) through storytelling. They pass down information about seasons, animals, weather and the land. They don’t use charts and graphs. They use beautiful, descriptive stories instead. - We read the story "This is How I Know" and recorded different ways we can obser...

  Phonics -ar, -or, -ore -we reviewed r-controlled vowels - ar makes the pirate sound -rrrrr, it can come at the beginning (art), in the middles (bark) and at the end of words (far) - or can come at the beginning of words (orange), in the middle (fork) and at the end of words (for) - When -or is at the end of words it is usually spelled with an -e at the end (store, more) *Please check your childs RED folder this weekend and re-read the decodables that we practiced this week  January Calendar - It is the beginning of a new month and a new year! - We talked about our wishes for 2026 and made calendar for the month of January 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: Pictographs - A pictograph represents data using pictures - We learned how to read and create pictographs - A pictograph has the fo...