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:  Phonics: Drop -e Rule, Y-I Rule -We learned another spelling rule for when we add suffixes -ER, -EST, -ED, and -ING to words -If the word ends with a silent E, we drop or take away the E before we add a suffix.  For example, if I want to add -ING to the word hope I take away the E and add -ING: hoping - If the word ends with a y, you change it to i before adding the suffix - except for when adding -ing! Writing- My Secret Message -We wrote a secret message to another student in the class -Then we practiced writing out all of the steps in a story plan -Finally we wrote a personal narrative about it Geometric Art -We learned about different shape art and tessellations and symmetry  -We then created our own geometric art (an ice cream cone, pineapple...

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:  UNESCO Heritage Sites in Alberta - A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a special place deemed to have universal value to humanity - Alberta is home to several UNESCO sites including:     - Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks     - Dinosaur Provincial Park     - Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump - We used google slides for the first time this year to make presentations about all of the different site - We learned how to add pictures, change the font and delete slides Geometry - We have started our unit on shapes - We reviewed the names and attributes of 2D shapes and 3D shapes - We learned how 2D shapes form 3D shapes - We learned about transformations: flips, slides and turns Phonics - Spelling Rules - We are looking a spelling change rules i...

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:  light, thought, head, under, story, saw, left, don't, few, while Phonics: dis- -We have been learning that a morpheme is a word part that change's a words meaning.  A prefix is a morpheme that comes at the beginning of a word. -We now know the prefixes UN-, PRE- and RE-.   -This week we learned about the prefix DIS- -It means not or apart.  If you disagree with someone, you do not agree or you have a different opinion - Please read over this week's decodables with your child and help them practice their decoding and comprehension.  Personal Narratives -This week we learned about how we can end our personal narrative that we are writing about with a feeling, hope, final action or lesson learned -This lets the reader know that they st...

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:  last, school, father, keep, tree, never, start, city, earth, eye Phonics: un-, pre-, re- -We learned that the prefix UN- means not or opposite -UN- means not in words like unhappy or unkind. - We learned that the prefix PRE- means before (e.g. preview) - We learned that the prefix RE- means to go back, return or repeat - Please read over this week's decodables with your child and help them practice their decoding and comprehension. Pancake Breakfast -We were so excited to come back from Spring Break and have a pancake breakfast in the gym  -We sat with our buddies and listened to country music -We even watched some of the students and staff participate in a line dance! Standard Algorithm -This week we practiced adding and subtraction two digit numbers ...