St. Veronica Elementary School
Welcome to
Mrs.
DeSouza’s
Grade 2 Class!
October 2013
The Grade 2 Times
Information Items
Mathematics
Number Sense and Numeration
Agenda
Please continue to sign and return your child’s agenda each
day.
Gym and Library
Gym (Day 2 and Day 3) and Library (Day 5) will not be on a
set day each week, it will change weekly. We encourage all
student’s indoor shoes to be running shoes so they are
prepared for gym each week. A reminder will be sent home
in the agenda each week to remind students to bring their
library books the next day.
Scholastic Book Orders
Scholastic book orders will continue to be sent home on a
monthly basis. Should you wish to place an order, please
make cheques payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. No cash
orders please.
At Home Reading
Please continue to read at home with your child on a daily
basis and track it on the form sent home.
Planning Time Teachers
Music- Taught by Mrs. Strachan
Science- Taught by Mrs. Garcia/ Mrs. DaSilva
Language
Arts
Gym/ Health- Taught
by Mr. Leclair
 Guided, Independent and Shared Reading
 Word Study/ Working with Words
Personal Narratives
Students will be learning to generate ideas about a
potential topic, using a variety of strategies and
resources.
Procedural Writing
Students will be learning to write short texts using
several simple forms.
Main Idea
Students will be learning to identify the main idea
and some additional elements of texts.
Text-to-Self Connections
Students will be learning to extend understanding
of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own
knowledge and experience, to other familiar texts,
and to the world around them.
Read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to
100, using a ten frame, base ten, place value, number lines,
hundreds charts, tally marks, small pictures, coins, and
fractions. Count forward to 200 and backwards from 50,
using multiples of various numbers as starting points.
Next Unit…
Patterns and Relationships
Students will be learning to identify, describe, extend, and
create repeating patterns, growing patterns, and shrinking
patterns.
Visit www.nelson.com for interactive activities
related to each grade 2 unit of study.
Social Studies
Heritage and Identity: Changing Family and
Community Traditions
Students will be learning to:

Compare some significant traditions and
celebrations among diverse groups and at different
times, and identify some of the reasons for
changes in these traditions/celebrations.

Use the social studies inquiry process to investigate
some of the past and present traditions and
celebrations within their own family and the
communities to which they belong.

Describe some of the major groups in their
community, including different types of families,
and some of the ways in which traditions and
heritage are passed on by such groups
Virtue Education
This Month’s Virtue is Empathy
Empathy is the ability to put oneself in another’s
shoes and the capacity to feel what the other
person is feeling.