Hi Everyone!

Welcome back! I hope you had a fun long weekend! We are back to a 5 day week.

Phys. Ed - Our Phys. Ed days this week are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Library - Our library day is on Tuesday, so make sure you bring your book back, so you can sign out another one.

Homework/Reading - The homework for the week is listed in the orange folders. Our spelling words focus on compound words. Putting together two smaller words, to make one word. The word work activity is on this as well. When you are writing your sentences, make sure to tell good details and begin and end your sentences properly. With Earth Day coming up this week, we are finding out about ways we can help take care of our planet. The reading comprehension story is about Earth Day. Remember to read the story twice, highlight or underline the answers in the story and circle the right answer. In math we are doing more work with mental math strategies to help with adding and subtracting and continue to work on counting in different ways from different starting points. Use your strategies to solve the number problems, then use the chart to break the code and reveal an Earth Day message. Make sure you read your book each night and record it on the log sheet.

Literacy/ Math For Home - This week I am sending home: Math strategies and fact sheet; number line and 100 chart; sight word sheets. These are for you to keep at home and work on and use for the rest of the year. The Grade 2 Sight Word list is one that I sent home earlier in the year, but am resending. Lists #3 & #4 are new lists. You will notice that some words are repeated from other lists that we had, but it is good practice, to make sure they know them well. The math strategies are ones we have been using at school, so you have an idea of what the students are working on and how they are solving addition and subtraction number sentences. We will be starting 2 digit addition and subtraction next month, knowing the strategies will help with this.

Earth Day - Earth Day is on Thursday April 22nd. We are reading, writing and doing art work about ways we can help to take care of our planet. You can wear blue and or green on this day to help celebrate. If possible try to bring a litterless lunch. We are trying to throw out as little garbage as we can on that day. Every little bit helps!

Have a fabulous week!