Jan 26th-30th, 2020

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

In Writing Workshop, students will try their hand at writing a letter to convey their opinions and try to persuade their reader to agree to their point of view.

In Reading Workshop, we will be continuing with our unit Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading. This means we are reading fiction books that take longer to finish. We are focusing on: Chapter books that have one central plot line, readers must carry the story from chapter to chapter. The focus of this unit is literary language.
There are 4 parts to this genre. They are:
Reading with Fluency
Understanding Literacy Language
Meeting the challenges of longer books
Tackling goals in the company of others
Students have been exposed to different figurative language like alliteration, rhymes, simile and unusual phrases.

In Math, students will be learning different strategies for subtraction. They will also be working on arrays and finding multiples of equal groups.

In STEM, our current unit is “Pebbles, Sand and Silt”, We have learnt about the properties of rocks. We will be learning about the slow changes that result due to weathering and erosion.

In Social Studies, Grade 2 is learning about reasons and requirements for making and developing tools and techniques. We will focus on the following questions:

·     Definition of tools

·     Why are tools developed

·     Name a few tools

Happy learning!