St. Veronica Elementary School October 2013
Agenda
Please continue to sign and return your child’s agenda each day.
Gym and Library
Gym (Day 1 and Day 3) and Library (Day 4) will not be on a set day each week, it will change weekly. We recommend student’s indoor shoes are 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
 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.
Number Sense and Numeration
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.
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for interactive activities related to each grade 2 unit of study.
Heritage and Identity: Changing Family and
Community Traditions
Students will be learning to:
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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.
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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.
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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