August 31st- Sept 4th

Welcome to Grade Two!

We are so excited to continue to build relationships and begin our learning journey together this year! Please check the blog every Friday afternoon for updates on what we have learned about that week.

First Day Feelings

There are so many different ways to feel on the first day of school! We read the story First Day Jitters, and talked about how we felt before coming to school this morning. We practiced using tally marks by going around the room, meeting our classmates and surveying them on how they felt this morning. Then we made a class graph. Most people in our class felt excited about the first day!

Listen, Learn and Grow

We read a story that taught us how we can use our whole body to help us regulate, listen and engage at school. Be sure to ask your child how they can listen with their minds, heart and body.

I Promise

-After reading the story I Promise by LeBron James we were inspired to make a class promise that includes all of the things that matter to us as a class community

We promise to:

-Dream Big

-Be a Team Player

-Be Respectful

-Try My Best

-Have Fun

Patterns

Two Truths and a Lie

-We wrote down three facts about our selves

-Two of them were the truth and one was a lie

-We then guessed which one was a lie

The Day You Begin

- We read the story The Day You Begin which celebrates finding similarities and differences with our classmates. We made bracelets that symbolized things that are special about us. For example a white bead to represent our family, an orange bead for our favourite sport, a purple bead to show we have a pet dog, and so on. Ask your child about their bracelet and what each bead symbolizes for them.

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September 8 - 11

Visual Journals - We are asking families to please send in items to decorate and personalize the covers of our visual journals. These can be things like photos, stickers, printed images, pictures from books or magazines, or basically anything flat that can be glue onto the cover. Please send in a collection of items by next Friday, the 18th of September, as we will be working on the covers that day Thank you so much for supporting your child and our classroom community! Home Reading -Look out for your child's RED home reading duotang that came home on Friday. -You will find decodables that accompany the skills your child is working on in class. Please have your child explain the concept they studied this week, and have them read the passage to you. As you read together you can help your child by asking them questions to check their comprehension. -You will also find a second comprehension sheet and their spelling test from that week -Please ret...

Sept 14th-18th

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: he was for on are as with his they I Phonics - FLSZ Rule & -all.-oll,-ull - When we hear /f/,/l/,/s/ or /z/ at the end of a word after a short vowel sound, we use double letters, or the same letter two times, to spell that sound. - We also learned that when -ll comes after the vowels A,O and U the ll changes the vowel sound - 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 Best Guess Spelling -We have been practicing using our 'best guess spelling' when we are writing sentences -We draw a line for every syllable that we hear and then write down the sounds that we hear -We make sure to remember that each syllab...

Sharma/ Penford Grade Two 2026-2027

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