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:  high, every, near, add, food, between, own, below, country, plant Phonics: -ly -We learned that the suffix -LY means like or manner of -LY is pronounced with the Y making a long E sound, like in the word slowly -Words that end in LY are usually adverbs.  Adverbs are words that describe actions or things that are happening - Please read over this week's decodables with your child and help them practice their decoding and comprehension. How to Catch a Leprechaun -After reading the story by Adam Wallace we designed our own traps using building materials in the classroom -We then wrote out all of the steps we would take to catch the leprechaun -We weren't lucky enough to catch one...better luck next time Levels of Government -We worked with a group ...

  During Parent-Teacher Conferences on   Thursday, March 19   and   Friday, March 20 , MTS is inviting families to place a colourful push pin on our world map located in our Learning Commons to show where their family comes from. Together, we’ll create a vibrant picture celebrating the diverse backgrounds that make up our school community! 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: -s/-es -We learned that morphemes are word parts that change a word's meaning.  A suffix is a morpheme we add to the end of a word -When we add -s/-es to nouns, the noun changes from singular to plural  -When we change a person's name or the pronoun he, she or it, we change the verb ending to -s or -es:  He runs.  She runs.  It runs. -The rule for adding -es is the same for ...

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: off, play, spell, air, away, animal, house, change, point, page Phonics: kn, wr and mb -We learned that some graphemes include silent letters -In the grapheme KN, the K is silent.  KN can only come at the beginning of a word. -In the grapheme WR, the W is silent.  WR can only come at the beginning of a word. -In the grapeme MB, the B is silent.  MB can only come at the end of a word. - Please read over this week's decodables with your child and help them practice their decoding and comprehension. Field Trip- Sam Centre -We learned so much on our field trip about The Calgary Stampede  -We talked about Heritage, traditions, clothing, food and language -Some of the things we will remember most are: "The story of the lightening bolt cowboy boots a...

Learning from Hal Eagletail -We had the opportunity to listen to some stories passed down to us from the Indigenous Elder Hal EagleTail. -Some of the things that we learned or wondered were: " He sang Happy Birthday to a student in our class in his language." "I learned that it takes 9 buffalo hide to make one tipi." "I learned that the dogs chew the buffalo hide until they reach the stones." "If you want the drum to make a simple sound, you need to put a rock on top of the hide while it is still wet." "You can make drums out of different animal hide." 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: land, different, home, us, move, try, kind, hand, picture, again Phonics: oi, oy - We learned a new sound /oi/.  /oi/ is a diphthong.  This is a kind of vowel soun...